Corona spoils ski jumper’s championship
March 3, 2021
Norwegian ski jumper Halvor Egner Granerud was having an outstanding season and favoured at the Nordic Ski World Championships this week, until he tested positive for the Corona virus. The team’s press chief was also sent into isolation and then another Norwegian sports official was found to be breaking the rules by not wearing a face mask.
“This obviously means that my world championship (participation) is over,” a disappointed Granerud wrote on social media Wednesday. He wrote that he was feeling only “slightly unwell” but would have to drop the rest of the competition in Oberstdorf.