Norway pulverizes opponents in the women's relay race in Lillehammer

The quartet consists of The Norwegian Maiken Caspersen Falla, Ingvild Flugstad & Ã˜ StBerG, Therese Johaug and Heidi Weng triumphs the 4x5 km relay race female Lillehammer, trimming two minutes to Finland second and slightly more & ugrave; the United States third.

Sunday 6 December 2015 6 minutes reading time

That the movement of skiing Norwegian was light years ahead of others & egrave; always known, and in the 4x5 km relay race female Lillehammer it & egrave; had confirmation tangible even in a team trial that & ndash; in fact & ndash; He counted for nothing. The race is in fact only a fraction, the first, in which Astrid Jacobsen, deployed to Norway II, tries to redeem the disappointing Skiathlon yesterday, leaving only four teams to play for the successful and changing in the head with Norway I (Falla), Finland (P & auml; rm & auml; Koski) and Sweden (Ingemarsdotter) in the slipstream. From the second half there & rsquo; & egrave; History: Ingvild Flugstad & Ã˜ StBerG a vacuum, changing with 21 seconds margin on Finland and 36 in Norway II, the rest of the world & egrave; to over a minute and twenty. For Johaug and Weng, what & egrave; the two racers pi & ugrave; strongest in the world right now, & egrave; a workout than 5 km during which nonetheless spare no tactics, such as pushing were to recover, so that the advantage on the final goal verges 2 minutes. For Norway & egrave; this victory number 67 in Staffette female tier. Without history the second place, with Finland that, thanks to Kerttu Niskanen in the second half, accumulating an advantage over rivals that Laura and Anne Mononen Kyll & ouml; nen not manage without worries. Pi & ugrave; however interesting the fight for third place, which eventually prevail sees the United States: in a thrilling last lap Jessica Diggins takes the luxury to pull Charlotte Kalla, with whom he was playing, and to reach and beat in the sprint Ragnhild Haga Norway II. The final podium & egrave; therefore the same as the & rsquo; last relay race which took place in Lillehammer two seasons ago. Disappointed day Sweden, only the fifth because of the disappointing performances of Emma Wik & eacute; n in the second fraction and Charlotte Kalla in fourth. Too bad the & rsquo; Italy. The quartet of Lucia Scardoni, Virginia De Martin Topranin, Debora Agreiter and Ilaria Debertolis closes all & rsquo; eleventh and penultimate place, ahead of only Slovenia. Worryingly & egrave; detachment, 4 & rsquo; 56 seconds from Norway. Not that our had ambitions of the podium, but at least a sign of competitiveness & agrave; with the teams of the second band it was reasonable to be expected. RELAY 4x5 KM FEMALE LILLEHAMMER & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. NORWAY I (Falla, & Ã˜ StBerG, Johaug, Weng) 53: 33.1 2. FINLAND (P & auml; rm & auml; Koski, Niskanen, Mononen, Kyll & ouml; nen) +1: 59.1 3. UNITED STATES (Brennan, Bjornsen Stephen, Diggins) +2: 07.1 4. NORWAY II (Jacobsen, Slind, Nakstad, Haga) +2: 08.5 5. SWEDEN (Ingemarsdotter, Wik & eacute; n, Rydqvist, Kalla) +2: 38.4 Click here for the ranking completa It & egrave; cos & Igrave; It ended two days of Lillehammer. The next round of the World Cup Cross Country Skiing Women's & egrave; set for next weekend: in Davos will be planning a 15km freestyle starting at intervals and a Sprint always skating. & Nbsp; & Nbsp;

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