He’s gotten into a lot of trouble, which doesn’t have to end with the mere revocation of a driver’s license, which the police have already approached. Former excellent Swedish hockey goalkeeper Tommy Salo had an accident in his homeland in August, after which his value of 3.06 per mille of alcohol in his blood was measured. He faces unconditional imprisonment for up to two years.
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Goalkeeper Tommy Salo just collected a cheap goal in the quarterfinals of the 2002 Olympic tournament in Salt Lake City against Belarus, which decided to sensationally eliminate the Swedish hockey players.
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The Swedish daily Sportbladet reports that, according to a preliminary investigation report, witnesses said that the 43-year-old goalkeeper was driving at a relatively slow speed in August, zigzagging on the road and his ride ended in a collision with the center barriers.
One of the witnesses then went to the crashed car, in which he found a sleeping driver. On-site police later performed a blood test on him, which showed 3.06 per mille of alcohol. Which is a value that exceeds by more than one per mille the limit qualified in Sweden as driving into heavy intoxication, beyond which there is already a threat of imprisonment.
I didn’t want to live anymore! The famous goalkeeper was caught up in a fatal mistake to the idea of suicide
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The 1994 Olympic winner from Lillehammer and the 1998 World Champion in Switzerland confessed to drinking alcohol on the spot. According to him, he drank a lot a few days before and allegedly stopped several times before the collision to have a shot of hard alcohol.
Salo has admitted in the past that after the end of his career he was accompanied (and perhaps still is) accompanied by severe depression and anxiety, due to which he even considered suicide and had to seek professional help.
His fatal failure in the quarterfinals of the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City against Belarus is to blame. Two and a half minutes before the end of the basic playing time at 3: 3, the defender Vladimir Kopat stretched in the middle zone to the shot. Salo jumped against an unsafe attempt, flicked the catch, and the disc bounced off his shoulder and back into the goal. The Swedes were no longer able to equalize and the tournament ended sensationally for them.
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