Italy’s biathlon sports director is sure that Dorothea Wierer will throw everything into the balance again before her career end.
Dorothea Wierer will go to her last biathlon season at the end of 2025. As early as the spring of 2024, speculating about the Italian’s end of career was speculated. The ski hunter had to pause for a long time due to illness, but Wierer ultimately continued.
The 35-year-old ended the past biathlon season in the 13th place in the overall World Cup. “Doro did it well last season. Only at the shooting range did she not come up with her other form,” Italy’s sports director Klaus Höllrigl rated the achievements of the South Tyrolean to “Sportnews.Bz”.
The biathlon official assured: “Anyone who knows them knows that they will now give another 100 percent in preparation.”
Biathlon career ended directly after the 2026 Olympics?
With the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo (February 6th to 22nd), a big highlight for Wierer and Co.
For the two -time overall World Cup winner, it could then be an active biathlete, as she had indicated on the sidelines of the season finale in Oslo in March.
“I don’t think I [nach Olympia 2026] will compete, “said Wierer in an interview with” Fondo Italia “. If so, she would travel to Norway at most” for the party “, the ski hunter added with a smile at the time.
With regard to the Olympics in their own country, said Höllrigl at “Sportnews.Bz”: “We do not pretend a certain medal destination. But we have been putting everything in the balance in February 2026 for years, and we do not want to put up with any accusations that we would not have thought of everything. In the end, we were able to enjoy a lot of arrows in the möcher and want to enjoy Olympia in the end.”