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They are terrible images that carry you through your core.
Daniel Andre Tande’s fall of terror in the final of the Ski Jumping World Cup in Planica made it clear once again how dangerous this sport is and how fine the line is between an infinite sense of freedom and danger. for life.
The 27-year-old Norwegian hit the front of the Monster-Schanze with full force in the test and was immediately knocked unconscious. After hours of anxiety, at least the go-ahead was given: Tande is no longer in mortal danger, but has been put into artificial deep sleep.
Of course, you don’t want anyone to fall like that, least of all Tande, whose career has already been on the brink.
Ski jumper with fear of heights
A career as a ski jumper was almost planned for Tande, he comes from Narvik, a region with a long tradition of ski jumping. His Kongsberg IF ski club, about 80 kilometers west of Oslo, is considered the birthplace of ski jumping in Norway.
Tande first experienced the sport at the tender age of two, when he emulated his older brother Hakon. While his brother gave up ski jumping, Daniel Andre made his way to the top of the world despite many obstacles.
For example, he suffers from a fear of heights. “It always works fine until I sit on the hill and look down,” Tande said once when he made his World Cup breakthrough. “But then I try to look away.” This simple strategy should prove its worth.
Even at times when he was not yet one of the best, Tande was unbearable. When Team A from Norway started a training camp in Vikersund years ago, Tande quickly set up a tent on the edge of the hill so they could train.
Liverpool-Fan mit Hang zu Andrea Bocelli
The endurance should pay off, in 2014 the Norwegian celebrated his World Cup ski debut by flying in the Kulm. The first victory followed on November 22, 2015 at Klingenthal.
In the 2016/17 season, Tande, who is a Liverpool FC fan and musically likes to be in the mood for a competition with Metallica or Andrea Bocelli, had his breakthrough.
In the Four Hills Tournament at that time, he won the jumping competitions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bergistel and came to Bischofshofen as the overall leader of the last competition. There, however, a ligature clip on his right ski was released on the second pass, causing Tande to lose control of the jump and could only avoid a fall with great difficulty. He finished third in the general classification of the tour.
At the 2018 World Ski Flight Championships in Oberstdorf, Tande won World Championship gold numbers two and three after winning team gold in 2016 individually and again with the team. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the Norwegian and his teammates became Olympic champions.
Rare disease at the height of the race.
As a world ski champion and an Olympic champion, Tande was at the zenith of his sports career when a rare disease nearly put his life in danger in May 2018. He was diagnosed with Steven Johnson syndrome, an infection-related skin disease. or a drug.
“The probability of contracting Stevens-Johnson syndrome is less than that of winning the lottery. That is my kind of luck,” Tande told the Norwegian news agency NTB at the time.
Tande’s body went haywire, his immune system attacking his own cells. “The mucous membranes, eyes and nose were affected. My mouth was like a big wound and I couldn’t eat anything,” Tande said.
The Norwegian was lucky that he quickly realized the symptoms and consulted a doctor. “If I hadn’t gotten to the hospital so quickly, the blisters would have spread across my skin. They told me that if the blisters covered more than 10 percent of the body, the death rate was 30 percent.”
Tande spent a week and a half in the hospital and could barely eat due to illness. The result was a decent weight loss and a break from training for several months.
Tande, sometimes celebrated as a pop star in Norway, struggled to come back with ambition. In 2020 he won team gold for the third time in a row at Planica. Without suspecting that a few months later in the same place a serious fall would endanger his life.
But if anyone fights back, it’s Daniel Andre Tande.
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