Therese Johaug: "I'm destroyed." Marit Bj rgen: "I cried with her on the phone"

In Norway, responses to Tas's decision to lift the disqualification of Therese Johaug at 18 months, preventing them from participating in the PyeongChang Olympic Games, are unanimous: they are overwhelmed by the disbelief for the hardness of the sanction.

Tuesday 22 August 2017 3 minutes reading time

The interested person was only able to say a few words during the press conference in late last morning: "I am completely destroyed. I trained hard to be competitive at PyeongChang and I was told that all the work was useless. I can not understand why this punishment. I think it is unfair and I feel that I have done an injustice. I dreamed of being on the way to the Olympic Games, now I continue to dream of being able to return to the race. We will see what will happen in my future, "after which the twenty-nine year old Norwegian was overwhelmed by tears and abandoned the meeting with journalists. Christian Hjort, the lawyer's lawyer, reiterated the same concepts: "Therese does not understand how it can be disqualified for 2 seasons just to use a cream, especially considering how it was not willing to come. The verdict also sanctioned the absence of a dole. Just for this 18 months of disqualification I find it incomprehensible and inappropriate. " Marit BjÃ¸rgen did not comment on the sentence but spoke about the consequences of the athlete: "Therese called me before the press conference and informed me of the verdict. He was crying and when I heard what he told me I started to cry too. I knew I had to find some sweet words to console her, but it was hard to do it. I hope you continue to compete. Now it's going through a terrible moment, now for me the most important thing is to stay close. Tomorrow we will meet at Seiser Alm, where I hope to meet her. "

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