Nordic SkiingTour de Ski
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In the women's field, Stina Nilsson dominates before the two Americans Caldwell and Diggins.
Tuesday 1 January 2019 4 minutes reading time
The track of the Sprint in free technique of Val Mustair, the third stage of the Tour de Ski, is that of the first stage of Dobbiaco, like the alpha in the omega, the white to the black. Forgetting the controversy on the three humps, perhaps too skikross style, is a ring with a decidedly steep slope and a descent that can reward those who face it with skill, a track where in three and a half minutes the best have always managed to make selection and where the final straight little has counted, often faced with acquired results.
And it was a great tenors' race it was understood from the morning when the ranking of qualifications saw in the top five positions Johannes Hesflot Klaebo, Emil Iversen, Federico Pellegrino, Lucas Chanavat and Sergey Ustiugov, the gotha of the sprint format of the last times . The five are found in the semifinals of the top of the board: Klaebo and Pellegrino make first and second, Iversen and Ustiugov are saved by the rule of the two best times, to leave the feathers is Chanavat but in its place to keep up the tricolor transalpine is Richard Jouve who is second in the other semi-final behind Skar.
In the final Klaebo and Ustiugov try to set the pace while Federico Pellegrino chooses the tactics that proved to be winning in the previous rounds; first covered lap, recovery of a couple of positions in the straight that precedes the steep where the Aosta Valley has always been able to jump opponents to be in the forefront. In the final the trajectory of Pellegrino is intertwined with Ustiugov's tails, we risk the accident, in fact there is a contact and, we will know later, the duck of an Italian stick is damaged. A Klaebo also appeared today unplayable by his opponents takes those five meters of advantage that no longer leaves for his second victory in his debut Tour de Ski, to Federico Pellegrino nothing remains but the satisfaction of the first podium of the season with the second place is the twenty-fifth podium in career. Third place to a length for Sergey Ustiugov that precedes the photo finish Richard Jouve, fifth Iversen, sixth Skar.
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