Wilfried Hark resigns to the ARD microphone at the last biathlon weekend in Oslo. For over 30 years it has been part of the inventory for major athletics and winter sports events.
It was not only a day of farewell on the biathlon slope-also in the ARD’s commentator cabin.
In the public service broadcaster, reporter legend Wilfried Hark commented on his last biathlon race after 33 years, the mass start of women with the overall World Cup duel between Franziska Preuß and Lou JeanMonnot is the final introduction to Harks, as moderator Michael Antwerpes revealed in advance.
“Willi Hark, after 33 years, more than 700 races, the big ball more than deserved: Willi, hood again, gives everything again!”, Antwerpes handed over the word to the 64-year-old.
Hark already emotionally adopted at Olympics
The reporter from Anklam in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania came to North German Radio in 1991 and has been part of the regular staff there since then in major events in athletics and winter sports.
Previously, after studying journalism in Leipzig, Hark had worked as a sports editor for the state television station of the GDR, German television radio.