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L & rsquo; eighth edition of the Tour de Ski takes place between 28 December 2013 and 5 January 2014. Retrace the seven stages of the women.
Monday 28 December 2015 10 minutes reading time
PROLOGUE TL OBERHOF & Egrave; the prologue of the poisons, but not something that happens on the track. Oberhof in fact miss the snow, and the organizers were forced to change the program, placing as the second of the two stages on German soil a Sprint free technique in place of & rsquo; chase classic. It does not take it well Justyna Kowalczyk, who feels the victim of a conspiracy which may favor the Norwegians and decided not to go, giving up the chance & agrave; to win the fifth consecutive Tour de Ski. Marit Bj ø rgen thanks: he won the prologue in front of Astrid Jacobsen and surprising Sylwia Jaskowiec and become the number one favorite for the final victory of what & egrave; l & rsquo; only competition of a certain weight is lacking to his palmares.
SPRINT TL OBERHOF The Sprint skating that replaces the & rsquo; chase alternating allows Hanna Erikson to win the first (and so far) only race of his career. The young Swede, having qualified with difficulty, is to turn to turn the right feeling with the hard snow of Oberhof, managing to beat in final the darling of the house Denise Herrmann and Norway's Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG. Marit Bj ø rgen closes fifth and increased his lead in the overall standings behind the pi & ugrave; great distance runner of all time are now disconnected Herrmann 18 seconds and & Ø StBerG to 25. Among the contenders for the final podium Astrid Jacobsen, only twenty-sixth stage, & egrave; fourth at 28 seconds, while Therese Johaug defends pi & ugrave; that very well finishing seventh, which also deals with placement in the standings, but with a gap down & agrave; of 35 seconds.
SPRINT TL LENZERHEIDE we move to Switzerland for what was l & rsquo; only Sprint originally scheduled & Outdoors; interior of the Tour de Ski. The protagonists are in fact the same ones that were played the race in Oberhof: tick Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG, that after three podiums achieved the first victory of his career ahead of & nbsp; Astrid Jacobsen and Denise Herrmann. The young Norwegian also takes the red bib: Marit Bj ø rgen fact does not go over to a thirteenth place also caused the first symptoms of an illness of the season that will force & agrave; to withdraw on the eve of the next stage. With two more racers & ugrave; strong of the world out of the game, the Tour de Ski Women 2014 opens to any solution, even though Therese Johaug, past the first unfavorable stages, seems to have more & ugrave; credible rivals.
10 KM TC MASS START LENZERHEIDE New Year's Day in Lenzerheide takes place a 10 km classic technique with mass start. No real reference points which could have been Kowalczyk or Bj ø rgen, are five girls who go on the run and play the stage. After Erikson and & Ø StBerG, he arrives for Kerttu Niskanen first career victory: the Finnish sprinted Astrid Jacobsen, perhaps never so & Igrave; in shape, Therese Johaug that begins to recover positions in the overall standings, Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Heidi Weng. As can be imagined, the red bib passes right on the shoulders of Jacobsen, who has a good margin of 35 seconds on & Ø StBerG, however, ready to abandon the Tour de Ski, 36 and 44 of Johaug Niskanen.
15 KM TL TRACKING L & rsquo; tracking Dobbiaco opens the triptych of stages porter & agrave; girls on top of the Cermis. Astrid Jacobsen does not seem willing to give up, managing, while disputing the entire trial in solitary, not to miss anything Therese Johaug, which instead goes to step over with ease & agrave; Kerttu Niskanen, pulling himself into second place in the overall standings. Behind the two Norwegians, but detached nearly 1:30, we find three Finns: third & egrave; Anne Kyll & ouml; nen, fourth and fifth Kerttu Niskanen Krista Lähteenmäki. Fall fighting for the podium Eva Vrabcová & ndash; Nyvltova sixth, seventh and Aurore Jean Heidi Weng eighth, but the final victory & egrave; now limited to the first two.
5 KM TC VAL DI FIEMME The penultimate stage of the Tour de Ski in 2014 & egrave; a 5 km classic technique. Therese Johaug, although in Cermis a valuable ally in the hope to win the ultimate success, can not & ograve; afford to go too far from Astrid Jacobsen. Decides cos & Igrave; force for all 5 kilometers, winning the stage and returning at 23 seconds behind in the overall standings. The world champion of the Sprint Sapporo 2007, however, defends very well, keeping the red bib and promising battle ramps pi & ugrave; hard Cermis. Behind the duelists, Anne Kyll & ouml; nen get the third stage, which takes place in the overall standings, but Niskanen, Lähteenmäki and Weng are still in the race for the final podium.
CLIMB TO CERMIS Despite a state of extraordinary form, Astrid Jacobsen can not & ograve; keep up the pace of Therese Johaug in a hard stage as the climb to Alpe Cermis. The pi & ugrave; the two young Norwegians in fact reaches and exceeds compatriot when the slopes are prohibitive, gaining for the fifth time in his career the best time in this particular stage and becoming the first Norwegian & ndash; including men & ndash; capable of attracting attention at the Tour de Ski. The party for the subjects of King Harald & egrave; Total: behind Jacobsen, who defends the second position without any problem thanks to the second fastest time of the stage, will square Heidi Weng, good to meet and exceed the three Finns that preceded the start. Fourth & egrave; cos & Igrave; Krista Lahteenmaki, fifth and sixth Kerttu Niskanen Anne Kyll & ouml; nen while Elizabeth Stephen completed the podium stage, a result that allows it to move up from fourteenth to seventh final. The best of a new Tour de Ski anonymous for the blue & egrave; Debora Agreiter, who crosses the finish line of the Alpe Cermis for the twenty-fifth at 7:32 of detachment from Johaug.
TOUR DE SKI FEMALE 2014 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. Therese Johaug (NOR) 2: 52: 45.0 2. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (NOR) +20.4 3. WENG Heidi (NOR) +2: 50.4 4. Lähteenmäki Krista (FIN) +2: 56.1 5. Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) +3: 18.1
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