Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
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Petter Northug rule sprint Calle Halfvarsson, Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Evgeniy Belov and won the & rsquo; tracking of Dobbiaco, the fifth stage of the Tour de Ski.
Thursday 8 January 2015 5 minutes reading time
On a course shortened because of & rsquo; lack of snow at 25 km instead of 35 km planned for the Cortina-Dobbiaco, predictably in little more & ugrave; a mile the first four starting & ndash; Northug, Sundby, Belov and Halfvarsson & ndash; is bunched, proceeding by agreement and by cutting out of the game the rest of the group, increasing their advantage at one meter intervals. The quartet comes undisturbed the final sprint where Northug submits its power going to win the victory number 42 inclusive of the career, the number 13 in stages of the Tour de Ski.
Second place for Halfvarsson, always well placed in these days but still without a win. Swedish precedes photo finish Sundby, who gets his third consecutive podium, and Belov. The rest of the world will play & agrave; from fifth place up: Alexey Poltoranin fact fails to mend the gap that separated him from the first, and was taken up by Dario Cologna with which proceeds for much of his effort, until from behind is also part of the group led by Niklas Dyrhaug , which sits in fifth place partial staccato & ndash; net of rebates & ndash; of two minutes from Northug; immediately behind him we find Alex Harvey sixth, seventh Cologna, Poltoranin Daniel Richardsson eighth and ninth, all separated from each other by 6/2. It goes without s & eacute; that if the first four not accuse problems, the fight for the final podium not potr & agrave; relate to other athletes.
Homemade Italian good comeback Roland Clara, the third fastest time of the race & ndash; result however useless from the point of view of the points of the World Cup that statistical & ndash; and the late twelfth behind the surprising British Andrew Musgrave, the pi & ugrave; good today although beaten by Maxim Vylegzhanin in the sprint for the tenth place. A point also Dietmar N & ouml; ckler, that can not keep the pace of the group at the end of the twentieth Clara finishing almost four minutes from Northug. Crolla Francesco De Fabiani, now thirty-fifth to pi & ugrave; five minutes, maintain pi & ugrave; or less the starting positions David Hofer forty-fourth and forty-seventh Giorgio Di Centa. No party instead Federico Pellegrino, whose goal of the Tour de Ski & ndash; centered perfectly & ndash; was the sprint Val Monastery.
25 KM TL TRACKING CORTINA-DOBBIACO & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Petter Northug (NOR) 53: 56.9 2. HALFVARSSON Calle (SWE) +2.0 3. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) +2.2 4. BELOV Evgeniy (RUS) +2.4 5. DYRHAUG Niklas (NOR) +1: 45.9
The general classification of the Tour de Ski coincides with the stage, with the only difference that the top three benefit allowances respectively 15, 10 and 5 seconds.
OVERALL TOUR DE SKI MEN AFTER 5 STEPS 1. Petter Northug (NOR) 2: 10: 36.5 2. HALFVARSSON Calle (SWE) +7.0 3. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) +12.2 4. BELOV Evgeniy (RUS) +17.4 5 . DYRHAUG Niklas (NOR) +2: 00.9
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Tomorrow the second and last day of rest before the grand final on Saturday (15 km classic technique with mass start) and Sunday (climbing the Cermis) in Val di Fiemme.
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