The Norwegian Biathlon Union announces that Tandrevold caught a cold in October when the Norwegian women's biathlon team was in Oberhof - and although she is back in training, she has decided in consultation with the medical team that she is out of the weekend's competitions.

- The start of the season has actually gone very well, so this is about bad timing.

I am training and I am determined to be back in Finland, she says in the press release.

It is also clear from earlier that Marte Olsbu Röiseland and Tiril Eckhoff will miss the premiere.