Last season, Norwegian Emil Iversen took World Cup gold both in the relay and in the five miles.
But this winter, things have gone much worse for the 30-year-old.
Iversen has not been better than seventh in an individual race in the World Cup, but can at least look back on a relay victory in the World Cup and an Olympic silver in the same discipline - his only start in the Olympics.
Now it is clear that there will be no more races this winter.
It was already known that he would stand over the weekend's five miles Holmenkollen, and tonight he announced that he will also stand over next week's World Cup final in Falun.
"I have tried to get back in good normal shape, but my body is not with me.
At times it has worked well in training, but it is clear that it does not quite work out when I really have to take in. Now I will try to get the excess back and get the body ready to train again ", he writes on his Instragram account .