Petter Northug renunciation of races in Nove Mesto

Although it was already & agrave; left for Nove Mesto, Petter Northug has decided to give the races of the weekend and return home to train.

Thursday 21 January 2016 3 minutes reading time

Renunciation & egrave; came in concert with Trond Nystad and Stig Rune Kveen, respectively head coach of the Norwegian team and personal coach of Northug. The reason & egrave; simple: it is not more & ugrave; fighting for the World Cup (more than 600 points that divide it from Sundby) and being still tired from the Tour de Ski, the King of Falun preferred to return home to recharge your batteries and find the best fit for the forthcoming appointments. Northug fact focused strongly both at 50 Km Oslo quest & rsquo; year unusually early in early February, and the Ski Tours Canada, multistage event that will conclude & agrave; season in early March. These are the words of Kveen reported from the site adressa.no: & ldquo; Petter has not understood that Sundby & egrave; pi & ugrave; reached. His new challenge will & agrave; to grab the second position in the overall standings & rdquo ;. Concorde also Nystad: & ldquo; In theory, the World Cup is not & egrave; yet over, but I think it is reasonable on his part to point to individual victories & rdquo ;. Kveen adds: & ldquo; This & egrave; l & rsquo; & agrave last opportunity; Petter has to finalize the preparation for the races in February and March. Many races in this period are important and Ski Tours Canada is perfectly suited to its characteristics & rdquo ;. Northug rientrer & agrave; in official competitions at the national championships that will take place in Troms Ã¸ in ten days. Its efforts will focus on Skiathlon Saturday 30 and on relay race of Sunday, 31 January. So the return to the World Cup with races in Drammen, Oslo, Stockholm, Falun and Lahti before the grand final in Canada. For races in Nove Mesto, the Norwegian federation has called Simen Hegstad Kruger. & Nbsp; & Nbsp;

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