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In Ruka's sprint, a contact with Hakola due to the missed semifinal is fatal for the Valdostan policeman. "Now I want to test myself over a distance in classic, let's look ahead".
Friday 26 November 2021 2 minutes reading time
A bitter debut, for a 29th place that certainly does not reflect Federico Pellegrino's potential in the classic sprint that today, on the snow of Ruka, opened the 2021/22 World Cup.
Having passed to the final stages with the 23rd time trial, the holder of the crystal ball of the specialty had to give up very soon in the last knockout heat, given that due to a contact with the Finnish Ristomatti Hakola he ended up on the ground, when the tussle was still about to break out. “The World Cup certainly did not start in the best way, but it has already happened other times - the words of“ Chicco ”through the FISI press office - Sprints are like that. In qualifying the sensations were not bad, I struggled at the beginning but in the final climb I recovered a lot, I was curious to get to work in the human test.
Unfortunately, an incorrect maneuver by the Finn, who has already apologized repeatedly, got in the way in the quarter-finals. Let's turn the page, now five races in a row with skating pace await us, one per week, but this weekend in Ruka is not over yet, I want to understand how I am in a 15 km classic technique, then we will see how it will be the situation ahead of Sunday.
I don't start crying, I take this experience as such, it will only charge me to face the next appointment with even greater agonistic anger ”.
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