Tusen Takk Bjorn Einar

Tusen Takk Bjorn Einar

23/03/2014 13:55

It’s really funny how people start to get involved with their passion, like it could sport or else, I still remember how I started to support my favorite football team – aka Manchester United- and I still remember quite well how I began to follow more and more ski jumping. It was at the late of the 90’s with Martin Schmitt and Sven Hannavald, but it wasn’t until a certain year, which has been approximately 2002/2003 I saw this blond guy from Norway wearing a tie under his ski jumping suit, with a very long name that shouldn’t be that easy to forget. That name was Bjorn Einar Romoeren, I thought it was cool that someone was actually wearing a black tie under their suit and I always had a fond love for Norway which I didn’t really know where it came from. So I started to follow more and more this amazing sport which is ski jumping, which taught me that despite, like it happens in football, in this sport you can cheer for your favorites but also to be fair and happy when someone else win, because you know that has been a great show. A show that have seen BER -as he has always been called by everyone-, been part of it in good and bad. No one will ever EVER forget his world record in Planica in 2005, in that weekend Matti Hautamaeki and Bjorn Einar along with Janne Ahonen, have set few different world records, Bjorn Einar was the penultimate and set a new world record with 239 meters, the next was Ahonen which would have beaten Bjorn’s record with 240 if it wasn’t that during his lading he actually fell so no record for him and the 239 remain until another norwegian Joahn Remen Evensen set a new one himself with 246.5 six years later in Vikersund in 2011. To be fair many have decided to say goodbye this season, Janda, Okabe,Schmitt,Koch, but when I heard that also Bjorn Einar was going to retire I actually had tears to my eyes, I mean I cried when Beckham left the Man United, because I was passionate – and still I am- about my favorite team and the athletes involved in that team, so the same happened when I heard that BER had his last jumps this weekend in Planica. Has been a long season, actually that was my 11th year that I started to follow regularly this sport, and the 4th year my site is born. If it wasn’t for that blond guy with the black tie, I wouldn’t understood how strong my passion was and still is for this ski jumping, I wouldn’t met some extraordinary people which actually became dear friends, - a few but good ones- and all thanks to this guy from Oslo, which involuntarily set up the fire in my heart for this sport. Saying goodbye for an athlete is never easy, and the ones who have said so this weekend must have thought about it very carefully. It is really “funny” to see two like Janda and Romoeren which have actually started to get back at their best,- but I presume that was the intention- quitting while you still able to fly like they always used to. No one would like to quit like a “loser” not matter how much you suffered with your injuries or your non top form, being an athlete means that you always do whatever you can to stay on top even in the bad times. I actually don’t really know what is this, is not a report , it’s not a recap but it is just me sharing with you my personal feeling about seeing one of my favorite if not MY FAVORITE calling off the day. Tusen takk for alle minnene Bjørn Einar Romøren Consuelo Conte [@KokkaMufc]