Cross Country Skiing - Stockholm
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surprise result in the Royal Palace Sprint in Stockholm. Back in fact the victory Nikita Kriukov, back from two disappointing seasons to say the least, before Ola Vigen Hattestad and Petter Northug.
Thursday 11 February 2016 5 minutes reading time
Since this morning the Russians had made it clear they can be protagonists in the Sprint in Stockholm, however the two pi & ugrave men; accredited to fight for victory are prematurely eliminated: Sergey Ustiugov falls and ends his adventure in battery, while Alexander Panzhinskiy breaks a stick in the semifinals. In both cases, benefits from Nikita Kriukov, only 27 & deg; time in qualifying, but good to take advantage of the misfortune of his countrymen to come in until & rsquo; final act.
Here it seemed destined to succumb in front of the Norwegian, as usual dominant in the sprint classic technique. Instead Kriukov found the enamel of the better days and, thanks to a choice of the ideal ski for the snow conditions, is able to overcome all the final straight, crossing the finish line first. For the Olympic champion in Vancouver, which did not rise on the podium of a top-level competition from December 21, 2013 when it imposed in Asiago, & egrave; This win number 7 all-inclusive career, all obtained in this format.
Great defeated the Norwegians, who never lost a Sprint alternately from March 14, 2014 when Gong was the Swedish trick. According & egrave; Ola Vigen Hattestad, probably the most & ugrave; in the form of the moment but penalized ski not all & rsquo; height, Petter Northug third, fourth Finn H & aring; January Krogh and sixth Turvoll Sondre Fossli. In the middle, in fifth place, the Frenchman Baptiste Gros, never cos & igrave; good at classical technique.
Bad news for Federico Pellegrino: cos & igrave; as in Drammen, the Val d'Aosta can not replicate in the race the good show in qualifying, was eliminated immediately for a 21 & deg; final place that allows him to scrape together only 10 points in the ranking of specialty & agrave ;. Pellegrino remains red bib with 415 points and the margin of Northug, rose to 308, sure enough, in light of the fact that the four sprints that are missing at the end of the season, three will be in skating. Also out in Maicol Rastelli battery, while Simone Urbani and Sergio Rigoni had not passed the qualification rock.
MALE SPRINT TC STOCKHOLM & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. KRIUKOV Nikita (RUS) 2. Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR) 3. Petter Northug (NOR) 4. KROGH Finn H & aring; gen (NOR) 5. GROS Baptiste (FRA) 6. Sondre Fossli Turvoll (NOR)
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The World Cup of men'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 planning a 10 km classic technique and a 15km free technique mass start.
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