Right after the nomination of the Norwegian team for the ski flying World Championships in Vikersund next weekend Johan Remen Evensen announced his retirement at a press conference.
Body was not working anymore
"My body has enough and this is the reason why I retire. I hoped that I would be able to repeat in Vikersund what I achieved there last year. But the things didn't work they way I had hoped", said the 26-year-old, who already decided to take that step on Saturday.
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Evensen not good enough
"I'm very sorry for Johan. Over the last weeks we tried everything we could to get him in a good shape for the World Championships, but we weren't succesful. His level of jumping was not high enough. We have at least five athletes who are better than him right now and we always said that we will go to Vikersund with the best team", head coach Alexander Stoeckl said to the Norwegian newspaper VG.
World record and medals as highlight
Evensen made his debut in the World Cup in December 2008 and celebrated his only win in the World Cup on February 12, 2011 in Vikersund. A day earlier he set a new world record with 246.5 m. He won the silver medal in the team competitions at the Nordic World Championships 2009 and 2011, as well as at the ski flying World Championships 2010. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver he won Bronze with the team.
"We don't have to win, but we can"
In a press conference an hour before the statement of Evensen, the Norweigan Ski Association nominated world cup leader Anders Bardal, Tom Hilde, Bjoern Einar Romoeren, Anders Fannemel and Rune Velta for the championships on the world's largest hill.
"We don't have to win, but we can"
"We don't have to win, but we want to and we can. We can be the world's best ski jumpers. We are in the position of a challenger in the individual and in the team event and we like this position", sport director Clas Brede Brathen said on a press conference on Monday.
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