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He has betrayed the couple Heidi Weng - Maiken Caspersen Falla, clear favorite in the women's team sprint in Lahti. The two Norwegians have won the gold medal ahead of Russia (Yulia Belorukova and Natalia Matveeva) and the US (Sadie Bjornsen and Jessica Diggins), capable of burning the most quoted Sweden (IDA INGEMARSDOTTER and Stina Nilsson).
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After batteries semifinal without surprises, the 'final act has experienced two fractions without jerks, before the attack resulted in the third Weng. It was actually a simple appetizer, good only to put out three teams play without a medal ambitions as Slovenia (Katja Višnar and Anamarija Lampic), Poland (Ewelina Marcisz and Justyna Kowalczyk) and Italy (Ilaria Debertolis and Lucia Scardoni) then classificatesi in that order between the eighth and tenth place.
Stronger the Falla lunge in the next round, which produced a few hundred meters the formation of a Norway-Sweden tandem in command. Finland (Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Kerttu Niskanen), Russia, Germany (Nicole Fessel and Stefanie Boehler), USA and Switzerland (Nadine Faehndrich and Laurien Van der Graaff) however, have remade under shortly after the change.
The initiative which has split the race finally came during the fifth fraction: about the Belorukova, author of a change of pace from bicycle race on the second and more challenging climb of the track. Weng was the only one to respond, and at the time of the last change Finland, Germany, USA and Sweden, remained in pursuit, they paid already 12 seconds.
In the latest round, Falla got rid of with relative ease Matveeva, fly away towards the second gold medal of this World Cup. Russia has defended without difficulty the 'silver, while Nilsson and Diggins have created the duel for the bronze. A winner was the American, already on the podium in the sprint skating. The medal hopes of Sweden, on the main card rivals Norway in the race today, have remained alive for a few minutes, in the light of doubts about Belorukova-Matveeva shift regularly between the third and fourth leg finally confirmed by the jury.
FEMALE TEAM SPRINT WORLD LAHTI - FINAL
1. Norway (Weng, Falla) 20: 20.5
2. Russia (Belorukova, Matveeva) +5.6
3. United States (Bjornsen, Diggins) +18.4
4. Sweden (Ingemarsdotter, Nilsson) +18.6
5. Finland (Saarinen, Niskanen) +23.0
6. Germany (Böhler, Fessel) +29.5
7. Switzerland (Faehndrich, Van der Graaff) +41.9
8. Slovenia (Visnar, Lampic) +48.5
9. Poland (Marcisz, Kowalczyk) +49.0
10. Italy (Debertolis, Scardoni) +1: 05.2
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