Lillehammer: Jessica Diggins insult the Norwegian

With six athletes in the first nine locations, Norway has also been shown in the 5km TL Lillehammer its overwhelming superiority on the overall competition. The landlord is, however, missed the big target: BjÃ¸rgen and companions are in fact due to bow to a big Jessica Diggins, the second career win in the World Cup.

Saturday 3 December 2016 4 minutes reading time

An extraordinary final part allowed the US 25-year old beat the woman most of the moment, Heidi Weng, however, able to strengthen the place of honor with its leadership in the overall World Cup and in the interim the mini- tour. At 1700 meters from the finish, the two were in fact separated by just five tenths of a second, with the Norwegian comeback and apparently close to overtaking. At the finish line, the gap had instead expanded to just under 5 ''. On the lowest rung of the podium went Marit BjÃ¸rgen, who always has the last stretch overtaken as a matter of tenths Astrid Jacobsen, fourth, and ingvild flugstad Ã¸stberg, fifth. Behind the Norwegian quartet Krista PÃ¤rmÃ¤koski, very regular at the highest levels at the start of the season. The Finnish preceded by 8/10 Yulia Tchekaleva. The top 10 is completed by Ragnhild Haga, Kari OyrÃ© Slind and Laura Mononen. Out of the points all Italian. The best was Ilaria Debertolis, 37th in just over a minute. 55th Virginia De Martin Topranin, Lucia Scardoni 70th, 73rd Greta Laurent. Did not start Gaia Vuerich. The ranking of the mini-tour, the eve of the 10 km CT to closing tracking, see Weng leads with a 20.7 seconds lead over Ã˜stberg and 21.6 of Diggins. The two will have to be careful not to attempt to BjÃ¸rgen comeback, which will start in less than 27 '' from the leader. 5 KM TL FEMALE LILLEHAMMER - FINAL 1. Jessica Diggins (USA) 12: 40.3 2. Heidi WENG (NOR) +4.8 3. Marit Bjoergen (NOR) +15.8 4. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (NOR) +16.4 5. ingvild flugstad Ã¸stberg +17.2 6. Krista PÃ„RMÃ„KOSKI (FIN) +26.9 7. TCHEKALEVA Yulia (RUS) +27.7 8. Ragnhild HAGA (NOR) +31.2 9. Kari OyrÃ© Slind (NOR) +32.0 10. Laura Mononen (FIN) +36.1 PROVISIONAL MINI-TOUR 1. Heidi WENG (NOR) 15: 35.0 2. ingvild flugstad Ã¸stberg (NOR) +20.7 3. Jessica Diggins (USA) +21.6 4. Marit Bjoergen (NOR) +26.9 5. Krista PÃ„RMÃ„KOSKI (FIN) +38.3 6. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (NOR) +43.9 7. Maiken Caspersen FALLA (NOR) +44.7 8. Ragnhild HAGA (NOR) +50.4 9. IDA INGEMARSDOTTER (SWE) +55.0 10. Hanna FALK (SWE) +57.5