Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
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Therese Johaug takes the luxury to beat in the sprint Marit Bj & oslash; rgen and conquer the 10 km classic technique with the starting line of Lake Tesero, penultimate stage of the Tour de Ski; third Heidi Weng.
Saturday 10 January 2015 5 minutes reading time
If the start tests online are extremely boring male, female ones are no different, although for different reasons. Today, in fact l & rsquo; interest fades after 2 Km, when the first three of the charts possible & ndash; Marit Bj & oslash; rgen, Heidi Weng and Therese Johaug & ndash; they go undisturbed by mutual agreement, leaving stellar distance the rest of the world. The emotions of a race in fact end in itself come only on the final straight, when Bj & oslash; rgen launches the sprint but is beaten against prediction from Johaug, which becomes a hit number 26 all inclusive career, gaining even a few precious seconds against Weng, third, in optical second-place finish at the Tour de Ski.
Stops cos & Igrave; 7 the winning streak in top-level competitions by Bj & oslash; rgen, however, that tomorrow partir & agrave; with two minutes ahead, so that, except colossal crisis, andr & agrave; to win the & rsquo; only competition is still lacking to his palmares unattainable. Defends Weng, rising to number 27 on the podium once in his career without even being able to savor the joy of victory. The pi & ugrave; Three young Norwegians who are dominating cross-country skiing world will have & agrave; defend about 45 seconds on Johaug if vorr & agrave; keep the second place finish.
The rest of the world will play & agrave; other positions since the fourth stage, Aino Kaisa Saarinen-found, accusation from 1:13 Johaug; Fifth & egrave; Elizabeth Stephen never a cos & Igrave; good at alternating step, sixth l & rsquo; Austrian Teresa Stadlober, the best career result, seventh Justyna Kowalczyk, who after trying in vain to keep the tails of Norway is seen stripped even from rivals on paper unless listed eighth Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová, Ragnhild Haga ninth and tenth Denise Herrmann. Crolla Wiken Emma, ​​who was fourth in the overall standings but ending twenty to 3:22 by Johaug.
Race anonymous by the three Italian racers at the start, however, who can score some points of the World Cup: Virginia De Martin Topranin & egrave; seventeenth, Ilaria Debertolis twentieth and twenty-seventh Francesca Baudin.
10 KM TC MASS START FEMALE LAKE TESERO & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Therese Johaug (NOR) +33: 10.4 2. BJ & Ø RGEN Marit (NOR) +1.1 3. WENG Heidi (NOR) +5.5 4. SAARINEN Aino Kaisa (FIN) +1: 13.1 5. STEPHEN Elizabeth ( USA) +1: 39.6
In the overall standings of the Tour de Ski l & rsquo; only interest, in addition to the possible comeback of Johaug of Weng for second place, the fight for fourth place, currently occupied by Haga but Kowalczyk in the slipstream. Do not rule out possible comebacks from behind by Stephen and & nbsp; Vrabcová-Nývltová, two girls who have already & agrave; proven in the past to be able to tame the slopes of Cermis. We will provide the overall standings complete as soon as published by the FIS.
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Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
Johaug beats Bjrgen in the penultimate stage of the Tour de Ski
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