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The Federation of Swedish cross-country skiing has released the squad for the Tour de Ski, scheduled between the first and 10 January.
Wednesday 23 December 2015 4 minutes reading time
The Scandinavian team points strongly to the event multistage pi & ugrave; important in the calendar. In the women l & rsquo; objective & egrave; win, as explained by the head coach Rickard Grip: & ldquo; We have a great team and we aim to get to fight for the win on the Alpe Cermis. Pu & ograve; happen & rdquo ;. The girls rush to Charlotte Kalla in Stina Nilsson, from IDA INGEMARSDOTTER Anna Haag, are currently meeting in Livigno.
Too many expectations on Hanna Falk: & ldquo; & egrave Hanna; It improved a lot in the race distance, so as to obtain several placings in the top twenty. Nevertheless in the sprint it remains a very high level, as evidenced by the fifth place in Davos. Therefore, I believe I can do very well in the Tour de Ski & rdquo; Grip the comment.
Some difficulties & agrave; in pi & ugrave; in the men's, also because of various ailments that hit Calle Halfvarsson and Marcus Hellner. The best in the standings & egrave; Therefore, Martin Johansson, however veteran in turn from an illness of the season; Grip describes the situation of his boys: & ldquo; Martin has started to train at a slow pace, while Calle & agrave will remain; catch up on Christmas Eve. We just have to cross your fingers and hope that both are the best in Lenzerheide & rdquo ;.
Emil J & ouml; nsson and Simon Andersson are growing condition: & ldquo; Both can do well at the Tour, both in Sprint that when starting on line. Sar & agrave; exciting follow Oskar Svensson, who at age 21 will face & agrave; his first Tour de Ski & rdquo ;.
This, then, l & rsquo; complete list of the Swedes who are in Lenzerheide for the & rsquo; opening of the Tour de Ski.
Women Hanna Falk Anna Haag IDA INGEMARSDOTTER Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Maria Evelina Rydqvist Settlin Emma Wik & eacute; n
Men Simon Andersson Calle Halfvarsson Emil J & ouml; nsson Martin Johansson Teodor Peterson Anders Svensson Svanebo Oskar Carl Quicklund
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