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Shows no sign of dropping the supremacy of Therese Johaug, who won the Skiathlon Lahti with the usual margin abnormal and puts the crystal ball in ice.
Sunday 21 February 2016 6 minutes reading time
The 27 year-old R ø ros does not mind tactics even in today's test, attacking from the very first meter and making selection immediately. It holds the queues alone Heidi Weng, which nevertheless & egrave; forced to surrender gi & agrave; at the end of the first lap. The classic technique segment sees Johaug change skis with 15 seconds on his compatriot and even 48 on a group of about ten athletes who will play & agrave; the third step of the podium.
Along the 7.5 km skating to the leader of the World Cup continues to push further expanding their lead, which can easily exceed one minute after the test. For Therese Johaug & egrave; This win number 44 all inclusive career, number 15 in the season. This being the & rsquo; last distance of the 2015-16 World Cup, must be stressed that Johaug won them all, and 8, and also considering the stages of the multistage, has lost only 3 of 18 and missed the podium only in 5 km of Dobbiaco. impressive but predictable numbers for a girl who is taking advantage of the break for motherhood & agrave; Marit Bj ø rgen and that & egrave; excluded could prove the most & ugrave; strong even with countryman in the race.
Second place went to Heidi Weng, the author did a race in complete solitude and reached the podium number 46 of his career, a number that does pi & ugrave; news. Third place for Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG that, mindful of the & rsquo; tactical error Gong, he decided to let go of the two countrymen, remaining quiet in groups of up to & rsquo; last kilometer, when it attacks andandosi to take a well-deserved podium.
The Norwegian domain proceeds with the fourth of a Maiken Caspersen Falla never cos & igrave; good in a race distance (boasting a podium in a 10 Km of Canmore in 2013, but it was a competition in which several of the best racers in the world did not participate), the sixth and seventh Astrid Jacobsen Kari & Ø YRE Slind. Amid Riitta-Liisa Roponen, fifth and the best result of the season. On home snow Finnish also placing Anne Kyll & ouml; nen ninth and Krista P & ä ä rm; tenth Koski, with more and more & ugrave; good Nathalie Von Siebenthal, eighth, unique representative of a country other than Norway and Finland among the top ten.
Home Italy come two points finishes, event quests & rsquo; year happened only in the 5 Km Dobbiaco. Centra discreet twenty-first place Virginia De Martin Topranin, good at keeping the beat easily the main group in the classic segment, and to resist the edge of the top 20 in skating. Ilaria Debertolis & egrave; Instead twenty-fourth, his best result of the season, while Lucia Scardoni ends thirty-eighth.
As for the general classification of the World, Johaug Cup seems to have switched off permanently hopes & Ø StBerG. The 27 year-old actually rose to 2025 points, while compatriot & egrave; in 1779, 246 points of difference that even one Ski Tours Canada mistress would allow & Ø StBerG to fill. Third remains Weng, which & egrave; share in 1557.
SKIATHLON FEMALE LAHTI & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Therese Johaug (NOR) 38: 59.9 2. WENG Heidi (NOR) +1: 05.5 3. & Ø StBerG Ingvild Flugstad (NOR) +1: 31.9 4. FALLA Maiken Caspersen (NOR) +1: 36.6 5 . Roponen Riitta-Liisa (FIN) +1: 39.0
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They cos & igrave; concluded the Lahti weekend and the European season of the World Cross Country Skiing Cup. The next round & egrave; with the Ski Tours Canada, multistage competition that disputer & agrave; from the first to 12th March and funger & agrave; as final.
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