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Oleg Perevozchikov, head coach of the Russian team men's cross country, has announced that the Tour de Ski is not part of the plans of the team next season.
Thursday 26 September 2013 1 minutes reading time
ll coach said that "we definitely would like to have athletes can participate in the entire Tour de Ski, but the event does not marry with the preparation in Sochi.
In the first races of the World Cup decide who deploy in the Tour,'' but the main focus is of course the Olympic Games, so it is likely that our team participates only in the early stages, but no'' concludes the event. "
The next Tour de Ski is likely to have a very poor technical value, even considering how Russia was the great protagonist of last year, when he won Aleksander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin came third and tenth Ilia Chernousov.
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