Bjorndalen omitted for Winter Olympics

OSLO: Norway’s biathlon star Ole Einar Bjorndalen, who has won the most medals in the history of Winter Olympics, has been omitted from the team for next month’s Games in Pyeongchang.

“The results achieved by Ole Einar Bjorndalen during the World Cup... are not good enough. He unfortunately did not meet the criteria” of the selection, the head of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Tore Oevreboe, said. Bjorndalen, who turns 44 in a few days, has competed in every Winter Olympics since the 1994 event in Lillehammer, Norway, and was hoping to participate in a seventh Olympiad in Pyeongchang next month. “It sucks that I can’t go,” he told television broadcaster TV2, adding that he disagreed with the Norwegian Olympic Committee’s decision. “I think I could have found my form in time for the Games.”