Norway announced cross-country skiers for the Ski Tours Canada. Hattestad disputer Vasaloppet

The Norwegian cross-country ski federation gi & agrave; announced the names of the skiers who will take part in the Ski Tours Canada, multistage competition that concludes the 2015-16 season.

Monday 22 February 2016 3 minutes reading time

The quota & ldquo; only & rdquo; 10 men and 7 women forced technicians to some painful choices. At the expense are primarily specialists in the Sprint: Sondre Fossli Turvoll, P & aring; l Golberg and Ola Vigen Hattestad the season World Cup & egrave; gi & agrave; over. In the women's field & egrave; Instead Kathrine Rolsted Harsem the pi & ugrave girl; Representative forced to stay home. This l & rsquo; full list of the Norwegian cross-country skiers who will participate in the Ski Tours Canada. Men Martin Johnsrud Sundby Petter Northug jr. Finn H & aring; January Krogh Niklas Dyrhaug Didrik T Ã¸ nseth Hans Christer Holund Sjur R Ã¸ the Emil Iversen Eirik Brandsdal Anders Gl Ã¸ Ersen Women Therese Johaug Heidi Weng Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Ingvild Flugstad & Ã˜ StBerG Maiken Caspersen Falla Ragnhild Haga Kari & Ã˜ YRE Slind It did not take too well the & rsquo; exclusion Ola Vigen Hattestad, as reported by NRK: & ldquo; I am disappointed not to go to Canada. The quota available to us was 10 cross-country skiers, and I'm l & rsquo; eleventh. The FIS would have it cross-country skiing to become this, a suitable sport to the full profiles. Specialists have less opportunity & agrave ;, in season there are 12 Sprint, 6 of which are internal to multistage competitions, & egrave; Obviously for me & egrave; It was impossible to fight for the cup giving six tests to my rivals & rdquo ;. The Olympic champion has also made the point on his season: & ldquo; Quest & rsquo; year have not gone well in freestyle, while classic technique instead I was among the best in the world. I'm considering what to do, I thought of going right away on vacation and to better prepare the World Championships in Lahti, but in the end I decided to participate in the Vasaloppet, for me & egrave; a new challenge and although I have not much time to prepare it, I really want to try it & rdquo ;. & Nbsp; & Nbsp;

Social media engagement