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The mood of Federico Pellegrino after the second place in the Sprint in Tecnica Mustair, which means twenty-five podiums in first-level tests, is not the best.
Tuesday 1 January 2019 2 minutes reading time
"I'm angry because I wanted to win and I could do it," says the Olympic champion of the specialty, "but at the top of the last climb where I was perfectly positioned, I touched Ustiugov who broke my duck, so during the last the stick slipped into the snow and it was no longer possible to attack Klaebo, without this hitch I could have said mine, because both in the quarterfinals and in the semi-finals I had shown myself to be well ".
As in the eve programs his Tour de Ski stops here and the Aosta Valley confirms it, "Now I stop here, with the back problems of last week I do not want to risk, also because Wednesday predictions speak of snow in Oberstdorf, would not be ideal conditions for my current state, I prefer to think of the Dresden race on Saturday 12 January, where another sprint awaits me ".
In the Sprint World Cup standings, Federico Pellegrino with 237 points is second at 67 points from the Norwegian Klaebo and precedes Brandsdal by 54 points.
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