Third stage of the Tour de Ski: Sprint freestyle
Domain stars and stripes in the men's qualification of the sprint free technique Lenzerheide with Simeon Hamilton to precede Andrew Newell. Still brilliant Halfvarsson Calle Federico Pellegrino and our protagonists in Oberhof.
Tuesday 31 December 2013 3 minutes reading time
Continues the Tour de Ski in Swiss land in Lenzerheide in the canton of Grisons, with a skating sprint of great importance in the general scheme of the competition that will culminate with the ascent of Cermis Sunday, January 5th.
In anticipation of the battery this morning in the afternoon there was the qualification round of ring 1.5 km that has skimmed the one hundred and five athletes at the start to define the top 30 times in the afternoon, go hunting for the victory and subsidies valuable in view of the stages of the Val Pusteria and Val di Fiemme that determine the winner in 2014.
To achieve the best time was the U.S. that preceded Simeon Hamilton's teammate Andrew Newell and the winner of Oberhof, Sweden's Calle Halfvarsson a brilliant and Martin Johnsrud Sundby, who by dint of constant and regular performance is advancing strongly the his candidacy for the conquest of Cermis.
Do not have passed the qualifying several big names, such as Russian Alexander Legkov, number one favorite to win the eve of the final victory, which therefore will lose ground from the main rivals, on a Petter Northug all that, however, has not shone even this morning qualification, Maurice Manificat that, after the controversy of recent days, will focus on the stages that will decide the fate of this year's Tour, ever so uncertain and balanced. In addition to the first two favorites have not passed the trap also Jauhojärvi Sami, Chris Jespersen, Devon Kershaw, Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Tobias Angerer.
Good test for blue-bearer with the qualification obtained by Federico Pellegrino, eager to repeat the podium in Thuringia in the afternoon, David Hofer, and Nizzi Henry born in 1990.
The batteries will start at 14.45
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