Cross Country Skiing - Falun 2015
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Petter Northug concludes the World Falun in the same manner with which he had begun: winning. & Egrave; Indeed his medal & rsquo; gold in the 50 km classic technique, silver Luk & aacute; & scaron; Bauer, bronze Johan Olsson.
Sunday 1 March 2015 8 minutes reading time
It would be interesting to close the FIS leaders in a room and show them for 4-5 times in a row the 50 Km that concluded the program of the World Falun. Maybe they would see to have destroyed a race that until ten years ago represented the & rsquo; essence of the sport, but now & egrave; a viable alternative to drugs combining sleep. Even today as usual & ndash; epic undertaking of Olsson in part Fiemme 2013 & ndash; in men's mass start, it takes 2 hours and 20 minutes before something happens. Specifically & egrave; Luk & aacute; & scaron; Bauer to break through the inertia increasing (finally) the pace and skimming a group that counted another twenty athletes.
The 37 year-old Czech, probably one of the last races of his glorious career, uses skis changed to 45 & deg; kilometer to occur in head on straight final. Despite a preparation aimed exclusively at this race, Bauer must for & ograve; give way to him who becomes in effect the king of Falun 2015. Petter Northug, climbed on & rsquo; last climb from reserve positions occupied for 49 km, argues in fact his power to win the sprint, winning the medal & rsquo; gold number 4 in this overview in & egrave; unquestionably l & rsquo; cover man.
For the detractors of Northug & egrave; duty to rattle off some numbers. & Egrave; this his victory number 44 all-inclusive career, second all time behind Bj & oslash; rn D & aelig; hlie that & egrave; at 48. & Egrave; medal & rsquo; gold number 15 among the Olympics (2) and World Championships (13), the number 20 (15 Ori, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze) ever, the number 4 in a 50 km (it was already & agrave; imposed at the Olympics Vancouver 2010 and the World Championships in Liberec 2009 and Oslo 2011). Finally Northug becomes the first man in history who won the medal & rsquo; gold in both the race pi & ugrave; short (Sprint) and in the pi & ugrave; long (the 50 Km) in the same edition of a main event.
Bauer must cos & Igrave; settle for a still beautiful medal & rsquo; silver, the number two for him at the World Cup after the victory in the 15 Km in alternating Liberec in 2009, a result that few would have expected especially considering that the departures online has never been his forte . The bronze medal finishes in the neck instead of the title holder, that Johan Olsson quest & rsquo; year, also because & eacute; too marked by the opponents, not replication l & rsquo; enterprise di Fiemme in 2013, but was still able to beat in the sprint Maxim Vylegzhanin fourth.
They can not play for the medals the other protagonists of this race. Fifth & egrave; Alex Harvey, who concludes however starring review for him memorable, sixth & egrave; Dario Cologna an ever active in top positions, Alexey Poltoranin seventh, eighth Didrik T & oslash; nseth, ninth and tenth Daniel Richardsson Alexander Bessmertnykh. Also worth mentioning Anders S & ouml; dergren that concluder & agrave; career at the end of the season, and that square fifteenth while playing a game of great generosity & agrave; in an effort to promote the success of his teammates.
Decent race blues. Dietmar N & ouml; ckler and Francesco De Fabiani they show up in the leading group until the & rsquo; last round: N & ouml; ckler resists right at the finish line, getting a nice twelfth place behind Martin Johnsrud Sundby, debilitated from & rsquo; influence that prevented him from compete in other races. De Fabiani instead collapses over the past 5 Km, slipping to the thirty-place. The front end Mattia Pellegrin, twenty-third, and Giorgio Di Centa, which concludes on parade his glorious career by getting a twenty-second place in the race that nine years ago, the regal & ograve; the Olympic title.
50 KM TC WORLD FALUN & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Petter Northug (NOR) 2: 26: 02.1 2. BAUER Luk & aacute; & scaron; (CZE) +1.7 3. Johan Olsson (SWE) +2.0 4. Vylegzhanin Maxim (RUS) +2.8 5. Alex Harvey (CAN) +6.0
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The World Falun are cos & Igrave; terminated. The medal & egrave; was won by Norway, the first team in the history of this event capable of winning 11 Ori (the previous record, also belonging to Norway, was 8 Ori). In terms of cross-country skiing are always the subjects of King Harald to triumph in front of Sweden and Russia.
MEDALS FALUN 2015 SKIING 9-2-3 (14) NORWAY 2-4-3 (9) SWEDEN 1-1-0 (2) RUSSIA 0-1-1 (2) CANADA 0-1-1 (2) FRANCE 0-1-1 (2) UNITED STATES 0-1-0 (1) SWITZERLAND 0-1-0 (1) CZECH REPUBLIC 0-0-1 (1) ITALY 0-0-1 (1) POLAND 0- 0-1 (1) FINLAND
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