Ulykkesfuglen Riiber injured in combined sprint – ABC News

RIIBER Lahti curse will never end.

Norway was doing well on the combined team sprint in Lahti, but the final stage was the anchor man Riiber injured.

The youngster went out 1 , 8 seconds behind leader Germany on the final leg, but suddenly turned the TV pictures that he sat on the ground track. It seemed as if the shoulder just stopped working in the first hill out of the stadium, because suddenly used Heming-runner just one stake.

The youngster got quick treatment for what looked to be a shoulder injury.

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Drama

– It may seem as if the shoulder was dislocated , said national coach Bjørn Kåre Ingebrigtsen said.

Shortly thereafter got Ingebrigtsen spoke with the national team physiotherapist Stein Vidar Thun who could tell that he had turned his shoulder back in place.

– They are on the way to the hospital now for a check, said Ingebrigtsen.

Ingebrigtsen was nowhere near as Riiber fell, and in the finish area after it was easier chaotic. Ingebrigtsen had both RIIBER jacket and backpack with him.

The German duo Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek ensured Germany victory in the race. Austria 1 and 2 were respectively second and third. Norway 2 (Jørgen Graabak / Håvard Klemetsen) was fifth.

Norway’s first team with Jan Schmid and Riiber led by 57 seconds after the ski jumping competition, but was never to race ruined at the last stage.

suture

Ingebrigtsen was a bit out of it, he also by the strange episode.

– This is nothing we can do something. It’s just something that happens, but it is at least so it is not always very good with a good trial championships resistant, for when we get there when it matters most. So far, it has certainly not gone smoothly in the trial championships, so we’ll try to fix next year, he concluded.

– Now we need to get the shoulder back in order and see how extensive the damage is, added the trainer.

Jarl Magnus Riiber has struggled much suture in Finnish Lahti. Friday he went first to finish in the sprint, but was disqualified for having gone wrong.

Riiber was also unlucky in Lahti last year. Also when he got both competitions destroyed. In team sprint he crashed with German Johannes Rydzek. When he lost one ski and had to finish on one ski, but was disqualified anyway for the tackle against the German. In the individual competition, he was also disqualified. When torn seam jump suit.

Riiber thus has not received a single qualifying result in Lahti in four starts over the past two years.

The youngster is taken out to the junior world championships, and it was nevertheless not intended that he should ask in Sunday’s race.