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After Marit Bj ø rgen, a & rsquo; other big star of the world cross country announced that rinuncer & agrave; Tour de Ski 2017. This is Charlotte Kalla, who won this race in 2008.
Thursday 14 July 2016 3 minutes reading time
In seasons which provide a main event & egrave; By tradition several top athletes to concentrate solely on this objective, snubbing other important goals, on all the Tour de Ski. Do not & agrave; except 2017: Marit Bj ø rgen, which will return & agrave; to racing after the break due to motherhood & agrave ;, he has gi & agrave; announced his absence in multistage competition pi & ugrave; noble; Yesterday & egrave; came the second official defection to Charlotte Kalla.
The 29 year-old Swede has announced that seguir & agrave; the same timetable that the port memorize options to win a gold, a silver and a bronze at the 2015 Falun World For this reason, no Tour de Ski, as explained yesterday during a press conference: & ldquo; My goal will be the World Cup in Lahti, therefore, will have memorize options need a long period of training that I wear & agrave; to desert some races of the World Cup. Among these, the Tour de Ski & rdquo ;.
So, six months to go, gi & agrave; two of the possible protagonists, as well as & eacute; winners in the past have indicated that they will not take part in the multistage competition for excellence, to be held & agrave; between 31 December 2016 and l & rsquo; January 8, 2017. As a result, both renounce leaving even the crystal ball: impossible to compete renouncing theoretical 750 points that the Tour de Ski is giving away.
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