The gold jump washed after pushing down hedge
Updated 08.05 | Published 03.37
Tokyo. Norway has had a lead -heavy World Cup.
Tonight, the last gold jump disappeared in the middle of the ten.
Sander Skotheim broke the competition after being washed on short hedges.
See the US fiasco race at 4×400 meters here
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Norway is on its way to a fiasco World Cup.
Our neighboring country looks to be medalless in a World Cup for the first time in ten years.
Because tonight, the last big gold jump disappeared – Sander Skotheim in ten fights.
The 23-year-old was second behind the American Kyle Garland for the second day of the ten-fight but with a stroke on the final victory as he is usually stronger than the American during the second half of a ten-fight.
But then the gold dream already died on 110 meters hurdles, which was Sunday’s first branch. He hit a hedge with the hind leg in the middle of the race, ended up from the rhythm, was close to falling and was forced to put down the next hedge with his hands so as not to hurt himself before he could skip the rest of the hedges and run in goal.
But you must not push down a hedge that way. He was washed and zeroed in the branch.
– I immediately understood that I would be washed. There is nothing to talk about. But I didn’t have a chance to take it over in a real way, Skotheim tells NRK.
Received the Fair Play award after the Olympic Gesture
When he was away from the medal battle with a zero, he chose to cancel his ten -fight.
– It sucks something devilish. It’s like a replay from last year, Skotheim tells NRK.
He is referring to the Olympics where he was also good but was zeroed in the pole jump after not passing the height. At that time, Skotheim still completed the competition and contributed strongly to compatriot Markus Rooth’s gold by helping him with the speed of the closing 1500-meter race. For that gesture, he was awarded the Fair Play Prize at the Gala of the International Athletics Association at the end of the year.
Rooth missed the World Cup after injuring himself in a pole jump just before the championship.
The pole jump is ongoing and ends this afternoon Swedish time.
Norway now has only a small medal chance left, although it is not great: Jakob Ingebrigtsen of 5000 meters later today. He is a reigning world champion but is not at all in a good kind after an injury that kept him away from all over the outdoor season. It would be a big bang if the Norwegian would take a medal.
