STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Norway’s double Olympic cross nation snowboarding champion Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg will miss the 2022 Games in Beijing due to well being points, the nation’s winter sports activities governing physique mentioned on Sunday.
The Norwegian Ski Federation (NSF) mentioned the 31-year-old, who received gold within the crew dash in Sochi in 2014 and the 4x5km relay in Pyeongchang in 2018, would miss the Tour de Ski and the Olympics.
Oestberg returned to the nationwide crew in November after virtually two years of well being issues, by which the outcomes she returned in bodily assessments weren’t deemed to be excessive sufficient for the ski federation to clear her to compete.
“The deliberate follow-up after the primary races reveals that her well being state of affairs can not handle the ski program. For that purpose Ingvild should take an extended break from competitors, which signifies that the Olympics are sadly too quickly,” NSF medical director Oeystein Andersen mentioned in a press release.
Oestberg received the general World Cup title in 2019.
“I’ve put in an enormous quantity of labor, achieved my finest, felt good and loved taking part in cross-country snowboarding once more. (My) goals are shattered, however I can do nothing however look ahead,” she mentioned.
(Reporting by Philip O’Connor, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
