(Dagbladet): Today replace local newspaper Bygdeposten name to “Bjorndal Posten”. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (42) is a special edition named after him at the biathlon World Championships first day.
– There is no bigger than Ole Einar Bjørndalen. He is one of our greatest of all time. He is the all-time Winter Olympian. Today starts the World Cup on home soil, and he says he’ll retire. So if Bygdeposten once to create something special, it had to be today, says editor Knut Braathen.
Special newspaper has a circulation of 18,000 copies and distributed to all households in the central county. Apart from the fixed bars that TV program and forecast all about Ole Einar Bjørndalen and his career. In total there are 40 pages of “The Golden Boy”.
– This is about the phenomenon of Ole Einar Bjørndalen. About Help on the way, those who have helped him on Simon Stranda. Those who have managed to create businesses out of Bjoerndalen. Successful agencies. The local company that built a gym in his bus. We reminisced and looked ahead. It contains everything from birth his ad, the photos taken yesterday, says Braathen.
The editor says that Bjoerndalen became too large for the newspaper, but he also has given readers a lot through its long career.
– It’s amazing. He has always gone their own ways, says Braathen about the phenomenon Bjoerndalen.
Bygdeposten was first published in 1954. It is the first and only time the newspaper called something else. It was the editor who came up with the idea for a coffee break.
– How do you think this issue is being received?
– I hope it was received well. Being able to read about this guy here, I think that many think is alright. There are many funny things about other people locally. There will be no heavy news edition says Braathen.
World Cup in Holmenkollen opened with mixed relay 15.30 today.
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