Cross Country Skiing - Falun 2015
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A blizzard conditions the 10 km free technique of World Falun, which nevertheless has a winner worthy of the name. Charlotte Kalla fact wins a medal d & rsquo; gold which repeats that of the Vancouver Olympics, but on the podium with her rise unexpectedly the Americans Jessica Diggins and Caitlin Gregg.
Tuesday 24 February 2015 8 minutes reading time
When at 13.30 kicks off the Japanese Yuki Kobayashi, of Falun snowing, but the situation degenerates about half & rsquo; hours later, when the & rsquo; only big gi & agrave; track & egrave; Charlotte Kalla. A real storm hits the racetrack, so that the last to leave, including the Norwegian favoritissime, find themselves having to fight both with a track pi & ugrave; slow, with both materials completely inadequate for a situation. And the results of this 10 Km in skating are nothing short of amazing.
We think Kalla to save & rsquo; d & rsquo register; gold, dominating the race from the first to the & rsquo; last meter, so that probably would have swept even in regular weather conditions and equal for all. For the Swedish & egrave; This is the first medal & rsquo; individual gold at the World Championships in his career, the second in a main event after that win, right in the 10 km free technique, at the Vancouver Olympics. & Egrave; this also its success number 11 all-inclusive, particularly significant because & eacute; Sweden gives the first medal d & rsquo; gold in Falun in 2015, all in all skinny booty after a week of racing for the organizing country. No one would have imagined instead that the United States would be able to win two medals today: the merit & egrave; Jessica Diggins and Caitlin Gregg.
Diggins not & egrave; exactly a stranger: 23 year old from Afton, Minnesota, two years ago in Val di Fiemme with Kikkan Randall & ograve conquered; the first medal d & rsquo; gold in the world cross-country for his country, but at the individual level in career never went over to a 5 & deg; place. The bib number 37, one of the last not too adversely affected by the snow, helping to win the medal & rsquo; silver impronosticabile.
Even more & ugrave; amazing & egrave; for & ograve; bronze Gregg, as we talk about a 34 year old often starring in the US Super Tour, the circuit continental US, but who attends rarely the World Cup, so that quest & rsquo; year not competed in a test of the first level from Sprint Davos of 21 December. Before today in career Gregg boasted a 14 & deg; place as best result, needless to hide that had it not match with the bib number 3, arriving at the finish line when the snow was still slight, could hardly close amongst the top 10. For the United States & egrave; This, of course, the first time that bring together two cross-country skiers on the podium of a world competition.
Scrolling down the standings, the top-ten other names are unlikely, all subsidized by the breastplate of departure. Fourth & egrave; Maria Rydqvist, number 27, at the start thanks to the & rsquo; influence of Anna Haag and gi & ugrave; the podium for less than 2 seconds; Fifth & egrave; Anouk Faivre Picon, number 5; Sixth & egrave; Nathalie Von Siebenthal, number 15; seventh Masako Ishida, specialist alternating step and number 11; eighth Kerttu Niskanen, number 47; ninth Seraina Boner, number 7; tenth Elizabeth Stephen, number 53 and all too good to reach this result. For six of the top 10 (Diggins, Gregg, Rydqvist, Faivre Picon, Von Siebenthal and Boner) & egrave; This is the best career result, which says a lot on & rsquo; outcome of this test.
Pay dearly snowstorm the favorites Eve, Norwegians of all: the best & egrave; Heidi Weng 22 ^, Therese Johaug & egrave; 27 ^, 29 ^ Ragnhild Haga, Marit Bj & oslash; rgen and Astrid Jacobsen 31 ^ 33 ^, all the minutes and fifty up of detachment. Indietrissimo also Riitta-Liisa Roponen 19 ^, 28 ^ and Yulia Tchekaleva Nicole Fessel 46th.
The Italian center the best result of the season in a race away. Marina Piller ends fact ^ 13 while Ilaria Debertolis & egrave; 21 ^. However a hint of regret c & rsquo; & egrave ;, as Piller & egrave; game with the number 2 and Debertolis with 9; see vicenre bronze in Gregg, taken immediately after Piller and certainly not more & ugrave; stronger than ours, suggests that the blue could in turn fight for medals in a race like this.
10 KM TL FEMALE FALUN 2015 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. KALLA Charlotte (SWE) 25: 08.08 2. Jessica Diggins (USA) +41.0 3. GREGG Caitlin (USA) +36.9 4. Rydqvist Maria (SWE) +48.6 5. FAIVRE PICON Anouk (FRA) +55.2
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Tomorrow back on track men, engaged in the 15km skating, while women will compete Thursday on Igrave; in the relay 4x5 km.
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