Immense Johaug with victory number 17 and a creepy ending to repel Oestberg

In the mass of Meraker, the fourth stage of the Scandinavian Ski Tour, the Norwegian champion rewrites history. Good 13th place for Elisa Brocard.

Thursday 20 February 2020 2 minutes reading time

Another page of history written by the absolute dominator of cross-country skiing. Therese Johaug says 17, as many as the victories in the season, with Marit Bjoergen's record equaled in a fourth stage of the Scandinavian Ski Tour which was not so easy to bring home for the Norwegian champion. A splendid Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg sold dearly, returning to Johaug in the final, after the World Cup leader had already made the void at the start of the Meraker mass start, on the 34 km of a fairly flat course, but that in the first few kilometers of the climb he had allowed Therese to go solo. In the end only 4 seconds divided the two compatriots, with Heidi Weng completing another hat-trick norge, however 1''21 "away and exceeded in the ranking of the Ski Tour by the same Oestberg, now second with more than two minutes behind Johaug, who also books victory No. 18 after exulting just 48 hours ago, for the first time in his career by winning in a sprint. Ebba Andersson finished fourth, then Norway again with Jacobsen fifth and Tiril Udnes Weng sixth, while the best Italian was an excellent Elisa Brocard, with the Aosta Valley at the end of the 13th.

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