"It's very painful"
After training crash: Norwegian misses home World Championships
Norwegian ski jumper Halvor Egner Granerud will miss the home World Championships in Trondheim, which begin on Wednesday, due to injury. As the Norwegian federation announced on Friday, the overall World Cup winner from 2020/21 and 2022/23 tore the collateral ligament in his knee during a training fall in Lillehammer.
The 28-year-old, who finished seventh in Lake Placid two weeks ago, will undergo surgery soon and have to take around four months off.
"Sport gives and takes. It's very painful to miss the opportunity to take part in a world championship on home soil. I've been looking forward to it ever since the World Championships were awarded to Trondheim. I've been thinking about it every day for several years," Granerud, who lives in Trondheim, was quoted as saying in a press release. Granerud, Tour winner in 2022/23 and runner-up with the team and mixed team in Planica two years ago, spoke of a "clumsy fall" that he was unable to prevent.
The Norwegian women's hopeful Thea Minyan Björseth also fell last Saturday as the half-time leader in Ljubno. A few days later, the federation announced that the 21-year-old had suffered a serious injury. Björseth tore both cruciate ligaments and damaged a collateral ligament in her left knee, she also suffered ligament damage in her elbow. She is due to undergo surgery next week. Team doctor Guri Ekaas assumes that Björseth will also miss the 2026 Winter Olympics as a result.
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