Programs recorded before the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was known
Before the diagnosis of ALS became known, Börje Salming participated in a television program on family research.
Tonight is airing the first episode, where he sees an article about his father’s death.
– This can’t be read, says the hockey icon and bursts into tears.
In August he said Puree Salming He has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The former hockey player announced that he did not want to be interviewed about his nerve disease or his health.
But a few months ago, Borgy Salming shared Channel 5s “Who do you think you are?” A historian helps him research his family history.
The first episode airs tonight.
I loved fishing with him.
It all started with Porgy reading aloud an article from 1956 about his father, Ireland. After reading the phrase “trapped to death in a mine, repairman at LKAB Erland Salming,” he pushed the newspaper away and punched it with his hand. He cries and says the text cannot be read.
– I didn’t understand then. I was five and a half years old and didn’t understand much of it, but it’s deep inside me. We thought if he might be there and see what we did, if he’d just let us fish with him, says Salming when he collected himself.
The program tells the story of the journey of a Sami family from the 18th century in Lapland. How Swedish schools did not teach Sami children to read and count, but tried to persuade them to abandon their religion and culture.
In 1922, the Surrey family changed their name to Salming and later moved to Kiruna where Borghi was born and took the first steps in what would become one of the most successful careers of Swedish hockey.
‘They don’t want to say’
There is another article about the death of the father in the LKAB mine. It’s a short delivery that Erland was a good companion who left them in his best years.
When Börje read it, tears broke out again. Although the accident made a deep impression on him, the family did not want to talk much about the accident or about the father’s upbringing.
– No, no one talks about it. Salming says, I tried to ask his brothers about it, but they don’t want to tell me.
“Who do you think you are?” It airs on Channel 5 at 9 PM tonight and can be streamed on Discovery Plus.