Cross Country Skiing - Stockholm
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Maiken Caspersen Falla confirms the pi & ugrave; strong specialist in this format triumphing in the Royal Palace Sprint in Stockholm and grabbing the red leader bib of the rankings specialty & agrave ;. Beats the usual Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG and Stina Nilsson.
Thursday 11 February 2016 4 minutes reading time
L & rsquo; trend of Sprint female, free or classic technique makes no difference, it is becoming more & ugrave; monotonous, with three girls, Maiken Caspersen Falla, Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG and Stina Nilsson, who prove over the much more & ugrave shifts; strongest of opponents and who come into the final with ridiculous ease & agrave ;. Of these three, & egrave; Flaw that confirms the best, dominating the & rsquo; final act before & Ø StBerG and Nilsson and replicating cos & igrave; the success achieved in Drammen eight days ago. They come to the final, where not, however, make it ever protagonists, even Hanna Falk fourth, Jennie & ouml; berg fifth and sixth Evgenia Shapovalova.
For Falla & egrave; This is a career milestone, as it & egrave; arrived at an altitude of 10 victories all inclusive, 7 World Cup, the first stage in the Nordic Opening, 1 stage in the Tour de Ski and l & rsquo; Olympic gold in Sochi. & nbsp; & Egrave; the sixth girl ever to cross the finish line of the double-digit victories in the box in the top-level Sprint, before her c & rsquo; had managed Marit Bj ø rgen (45 Sprint won), Petra Majdi & # 269; (20), Bente Skari (17), Kikkan Randall (12) and Justyna Kowalczyk (10).
L & rsquo; outcome of today's Sprint also inflames the struggle for the bowl of Specialties & agrave ;. Falla it back on his head rising to 480 points against the 476 of & Ø StBerG and 474 of Nilsson. As for the overall World Cup, however, & nbsp; & Ø StBerG harks & agrave; under Therese Johaug, absent today. The pi & ugrave; younger of the two Norwegian & egrave; In fact, at an altitude of 1552 points, only 92 less than the leader, who remains firm in 1644. Despite Johaug has proved much pi & ugrave; strong, the fight for the Crystal Ball & egrave; still wide open.
The three recognized blue, Lucia Scardoni, Greta Laurent and Gaia Vuerich, had not passed the hurdle of disputatesi qualifications in the late morning.
SPRINT TC FEMALE STOCKHOLM & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Maiken Caspersen FALLA (NOR) 2 & Ø StBerG Ingvild Flugstad (NOR) 3. Stina Nilsson (SWE) 4. FALK Hanna (SWE) 5. & ouml; BERG Jennie (SWE) 6. Evgenia Shapovalova (RUS)
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The World Cup of Women's Cross Country Skiing remains in Sweden, but moved to Falun. In the city & agrave; headquarters of the World Cup 2015, next Saturday and Sunday will be in fact planned a 5 km classic technique and a 10 km free technique mass start.
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