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In a & rsquo; interview with the tabloid Verdens Gang, Anders Gl ø Ersen announced its intention to focus on the 50 km skating as the only individual race at the World Championships in Lahti. A choice that represents the d & rsquo; arrival of a long transformation.
Wednesday 5 October 2016 4 minutes reading time
It must be remembered that the 30 year old native of Oslo & egrave; was for many years a specialist of sprint races, winning four individual victories at the World Cup between 2007 and 2013, more & ugrave; a couple with Ola Vigen Hattestad. The pi & ugrave; also remember, in the same specialty & agrave ;, its downhill slide in the final daring of Sochi, ended in fourth place.
Just in the Olympic season Gl ø Ersen beginning memorize options to collect prestigious placings in races of distance freestyle, which were the first symptoms of the success in the 15 km of Davos of December 2014.
Since then, the Norwegian is not & egrave; pi & ugrave; back on the pi & ugrave step; top of the podium, but its transformation into a man from races away & egrave; continued: before & nbsp; two medals at the World Championships in Falun (bronze in the 15 km TL and gold in the relay, playing a great third fraction), then a podium in the 30km Davos last December.
& Ldquo; & Egrave; a bit & rsquo; a bet & rdquo ;, admitted Gl ø Ersen, & ldquo; I have not done a lot of 50 km in his career. To memorize options & Egrave; an experiment I want to do & rdquo ;. The two previous speak only on the distance of a 47 & deg; place in 2013 and an encouraging 11 & deg; in 2015, both in Holmenkollen.
& Ldquo; There & egrave; a choice cos & igrave; extravagant, however: I have shown in the World Cup to be suitable to the races of distance & rdquo ;, he added l & rsquo; athlete. & Ldquo; The individual competitions in skating at the World Cup will be the sprint and 50 km, and right now I feel more & ugrave; competitive in the second & rdquo ;.
Gl ø Ersen did however indicate that you have gi & agrave; think l & rsquo; Olympic event, where you can relax & agrave; compete, in the technique to him more & ugrave; congenial, over a distance for him pi & ugrave; as usual the 15 km, next to the relay.
Torgeir Bj ø rn, technical commentator for NRK, approved the choice of his compatriot: & ldquo; When Anders & egrave; fit, & egrave; one of the men to beat at skating. The 50 km & egrave; his only chance of individual medal. If you give & agrave; proof of a state of similar form to that of Gong, could be taken into account for the third leg of the relay & rdquo ;.
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