Marit Bj epic rgen in the 30 km female in classical technique

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Incredible race of the cross-country queen who with this gold has become the most successful athlete in the history of the Winter Olympic Games and has led Norway to win the Pyeongchang 2018 medal table.

Sunday 25 February 2018 5 minutes reading time

In the first round the waters remained calm and none managed to make the difference. All the most popular athletes have moved into the lead group, with the exception of Jessica Diggins, who fell at the end of the descent that led to the stadium and remained slightly delayed. Marit BjÃ¸rgen, in charge of operations since the first kilometers, held a sustained pace even in the second lap, putting several athletes in difficulty. The leading group was thus reduced to twelve units at the 7.5 km pass. The action of the Norwegian was impressive and seamless, so that a third of the race was found on the run. The last one to surrender was Kalla who, within a few hundred meters, accumulated twenty seconds of delay and was joined by the Finns Niskanen and PÃ¤rmÃ¤koski and Teresa Stadlober. All the other big ones have remained even longer, Haga, Weng and the Russians have called themselves out of the fight for the medals, the trio composed by Diggins, Nilsson and Ã˜stberg, detached about twenty seconds from the podium. Halfway through the race BjÃ¸rgen passed with a 50 "lead over the first pursuers but lost slightly due to the change of skis. Behind him the two Finn and the Austrian have pulled straight, Kalla instead has changed material, detaching a dozen seconds. The script has not changed in the remaining 15 km, the Scandinavian has never removed the foot from the accelerator and concluded with 1'50 "on the second despite the celebrations in the final stretch, a real domain. For Marit came the 'eighth gold and fifteenth Olympic medal career and became the' most successful athlete in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. But everything has happened behind and the fight for the remaining steps of the podium has been alive and uncertain until the end. Around 20 km, Stadlober attacked, succeeding in detaching the two Finns but he incredibly missed the path, lengthening it and slipping from the 2nd to the 8th position. PÃ¤rmÃ¤koski thus became the first of the pursuers and soon found herself alone, as Niskanen went into crisis and was overtaken by the Ã˜stberg-Nilsson couple, in strong comeback and with 15 "to be recovered to the Finnish at the entrance of the last returned. At the end of a distance duel that lasted several kilometers, the silver medal went to PÃ¤rmÃ¤koski, bronze instead to the Swedish Nilsson, sprint specialist and real surprise of the race. The Swede was able to resist the Ã˜stberg attack on the last climb and then easily beat her in the sprint. The two paid two minutes from the leader. Three minutes instead of the Charlotte Kalla who finished 5th, ahead of Niskanen 6a, Diggins 7a and Weng 8a. Terese Stadlober instead slid sadly to the 9th place at over four minutes, concluded in the top ten also the Japanese Ishida. The Italians who have accumulated abysmal detachments since the first few kilometers are very late. The best at the end was Brocard 27th, 34th instead of Comarella, 35th Pellegrini and 41a Scardoni.

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