Norway’s biathlon team loses one of his ski hunters. With a view to the 2026 Winter Olympics, she prefers to train away from the group.
Biathlete Emilie Agheim Kalkenberg from Norway leaves her national team. The 27-year-old announced this on Instagram.
“After many beautiful years in the national team, I want to go my own way now!”, Wrote Kalkenberg. “In this way I learned a lot, both good and bad things, and now I’m looking forward to using these experiences to put together a program that I really believe in.”
Kalkenberg justified their step by the fact that with the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo an absolute highlight will be due next year.
Biathlon: Kalkenberg no longer wants to make a “compromise”
“It will be an incredibly exciting and demanding project, which I am looking forward to, and I am extremely motivated to start with it in the run -up to the Olympic season. I don’t feel ready as a biathlete and want to try my conditions and without compromise to see how far I can get in the next season,” said the Norwegian.
So far, she was “good luck” and received plenty of support in the course of her previous biathlon career. She now hopes that for the new Olympic season “she can get as many supporters on board as possible” in order to be able to put together an optimal program.
Kalkenberg made her debut in the second-class IBU Cup in 2017, and a year later she came to the World Cup for the first time. Last season she was only appointed to the Norwegian World Cup contingent in the first trimester.
The 27-year-old was not able to play a placement among the first 25 ski hunters in Kontialahti or in Hochfilzen or Annecy.