Norwegian Olympic champion Daniel-Andre Tande will no longer jump from the ski jumps in the future. Almost five months before the home World Championships in Trondheim, the 30-year-old announced his retirement via Instagram. He is still suffering mentally from the consequences of his serious fall on the ski jump in Planica in 2021, said Tande. After the accident on the Slovenian facility, which is considered the most dangerous ski jump in the world, Tande was in an artificial coma for several days.
In 2018, Tande won Olympic gold with Norway’s team in Pyeongchang. In the same year, the eight-time individual World Cup winner also celebrated his greatest individual success when he became ski flying world champion in Oberstdorf. Tande also won three World Championship golds with the team.
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