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Alex Harvey surprising Sundby and Legkov skiathlon in Falun, also taking the lead in the overall standings of the race multistage.
Saturday 15 March 2014 4 minutes reading time
The race was decided in the vicinity of the first of the four sprint rebate when attacking Alexander Legkov, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Alex Harvey and Daniel Richardsson. The four by common agreement, eliminating the struggle for the stage win and the rest of the group coming to the change of technique with a lead of about 25 seconds on the chasers.
In the 15 km skating slowly loses contact Richardsson, which still wrecked not being able to defend with ease fourth place. The victory is a bargain at three that decides about two hundred meters from the finish, when Harvey, closed by inadvertently Legkov, breaks a stick to Russian, depriving him of the opportunity to compete for the stage win. In the Canadian sprint is much stronger than Sundby, so as to win their arms up his fourth win of his career, the first in a long distance race after two prologues (Final Tour de Ski 2012 and 2013) and the Sprint Szklarska Poreba two months ago.
Staccatissimi all the others, with Maxim Vylegzhanin that segment of the race in free technique becomes the protagonist of a great comeback that brought him back from the seventeenth to fifth place, with the same detachment (53 seconds) compared to the peak. The Russian precedes the Elder Rønning best of the season, sixth, seventh another Norwegian Sjur Rothe, the great Frenchman Jean Marc Gaillard eighth, ninth Finnish Matti Heikkinen and the eternal Lukas Bauer, who completes the top ten .
In light of today's results, Harvey also takes the lead in the overall standings of the Finals in Falun. The fight for victory seems reserved for the same three performers who inspired him skiathlon: Sundby Legkov and chase it with about fifteen seconds behind, while the rest of the group has a delay of more than a minute, which means that it is subject to sudden reversals of only decide the order in which the first three will be on the podium.
The only way to Italian, Federico Pellegrino, a good specialist is unable to compete in a sprint race memorable. At the end of the Aosta Valley close to the thirty-third place staccato of six and a half minutes from Harvey, however, result in line with expectations before.
SKIATHLON MALE FALUN - FINAL STANDINGS
1. Alex Harvey (CAN) 1:18:07.6 2. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 3 +0.4. Legkov Alexander (RUS) +5.9 4. Richardsson Daniel (SWE) +24.7 5. Vylegzhanin Maxim (RUS) +53.9
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