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Now for a three-year period from Therese Johaug'' life along with Marit Bjoergen and Justyna Kowalczyk to a triarchy cross-country skiing women leaving the crumbs to the rest of the world. The twenty-five Norwegian, however, always been the weakest of the trio because of the gap in the "sprint".
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In fact, the young Scandinavian while proving to the level of the two rivals in the competition away, it's always game beaten in the race for overall World Cup as a non-competitive in the shorter race format.
The big handicap, however, could be overcome (at least partially) from the new winter. In recent days, the Norwegian team held a series of tests at Holmenkollen which revealed a surprising finding: Johaug managed to beat all the sprinters, including specialists such as Maiken Caspersen Falla and ngvild Flugstad Ostberg.
The head coach Egil Kristiansen said he was impressed: "we must take into account that the track was tough, so favorite a little Therese, and that we are in October. But I've never seen Johaug so strong. Physically it is more , or less than the level of last year, but has improved in several areas. "
Kristiansen, however, is cautious about the possibility of seeing the tiny Norwegian competitive in the sprint'' during the winter: "I doubt he can fight for the podium in the sprint World Cup, but certainly a step forward on shorter distances will allow , to lose less seconds during testing multistage like the Tour de Ski and thus increase his chances of victory in these contexts. "
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