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Victory enough to surprise Alex Harvey in the prologue of the Tour de Ski. For Canada is the second largest party with Devon Kershaw.
Saturday 28 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
The unexpected victory of Harvey is simply because the Canadian at the start of the season seemed to be a relative of the long-distance runner even able to win, among other things, the bronze in the sprint at the World Championships in Val di Fiemme. Today, however, Harvey finds himself, quite clearly winning the second victory of his career, the first, incidentally, won the prologue in the free technique of Falun end of 2012. And for Canada because the party is double the second place was Devon Kershaw, another guy for over a year could not get anything good, he came second in the overall standings of the World Cup in 2012 and which together Harvey has written the history of skiing by winning gold in the team sprint at the World Championships in Oslo, the first non-European to succeed in this endeavor. Third place went to the Norwegian Chris Jespersen, who proves once more to deserve the role of leader of the specialty of the distance races, he was able to climb on the podium in the 30 km of Davos.
Among the top ten are one big name, the name of the leader of the World Cup Martin Johnsrud Sundby, sixth. Fourth is in fact Ilia Chernousov, best of the Russians, the French Robin Duvillard fifth, seventh Swede Jens Eriksson, the Finnish Sami Jauhojärvi eighth, the ninth and tenth Norwegian Finn Hagen Krogh Estonian Aivar Rehemaa. Among the contenders to win the Tour de Ski, fourteenth almost twenty seconds Alexey Poltoranin, seventeenth defending champion Alexander Legkov, a twenty-fifth Petter Northug still out of condition, twenty-ninth Maurice Manificat. The gaps between the big names are included, but if Harvey can be sustained at high levels, the nearly thirty-second margin net of allowances acquired today could prove to be very important.
Extremely disappointing performance at home in Italy: the best is David Hofer even more than forty-ninth to thirty seconds Dietmar Noeckler is fifty-fourth, fifty-seventh John Gullo, Giorgio Di Centa sixty, seventy-Nizzi Henry, Thomas Moriggl seventy, Fabio Pasini eightieth, eighty-Maicol Rastelli , Matt Pellegrin eighty, eighty Federico Pellegrino and Francesco De Fabiani ninety-sixth. No party instead Roland Clara, whose Tour de Ski would still be complicated after the program change the stage of Oberhof.
STANDINGS PROLOGUE 4.5 KM TL OBERHOF MASCHILE1. Alex Harvey (CAN) 9:03:42. KERSHAW Devon (CAN) +4.13. JESPERSEN Chris (NOR) +10.24. Chernousov Ilia (RUS) +13.45. DUVILLARD Robin (FRA) 13.8
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Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
Alex Harvey surprises everyone in the prologue of the Tour de Ski
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