Cross Country Skiing - Lillehammer
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Norway writes a new page in the history of skiing. In 4x7,5 km Relay Male Lillehammer Norway wins The front of Norway Norway II and III. Never before today a nation had monopolized the podium of a top-level team trials.
Sunday 6 December 2015 6 minutes reading time
What a race for s & eacute; absolutely useless can be transformed into something the town can be seen from the first fraction, when Niklas Dyrhaug selection ago, taking with him only his compatriots Emil Iversen and Martin L ø WSTR ø m Nyenget and excellent Federico Pellegrino. In the second half come off Dietmar N & ouml; ckler and Didrik T ø nseth, victim of a crash which excludes Norway II from the fight for the win, but & egrave; in the third that decides the winning formation, usually with Martin Johnsrud Sundby that leaves in place Simen Andreas Sveen allowing Petter Northug leaving solo and walk right on the finish line. Finn H & aring; January Krogh, deployed even for Norway III demonstrating the stellar level of this nation, defends without worries second place, while Anders Gl ø Ersen beats Andrey Larkov of Russia I completed the hat-trick.
Before today Norway had obtained a shotgun in a relay race of the World Cup in six occasions, the last of which on Nov. 20, 2011 in Sjusj ø No, but he had never monopolized the podium. That today & egrave; So the first hat-trick ever not only for Norway, but for a nation in general in a team competition for the first level in Cross Country Skiing. Maybe not & egrave; true that the first 12 skiers in the world are in Norway, but for sure the quality & agrave; cross-country skiers that the Scandinavian nation is producing in this historical period & egrave; probably the most & ugrave; high of all time.
Behind the & ldquo; & rdquo aliens; They simply place the two Russian teams, while in sixth place we find the & rsquo; excellent experimental Italy. As said Federico Pellegrino, deployed at launch, is a remarkably reliable, so much so that the & rsquo; only foreigner to hold the tails of Norway in a technical and a distance not his; Also good Dietmar N & ouml; ckler to defend themselves in the second fraction. What is lacking is the contribution of a third Roland Clara obviously still out of shape, while Francesco De Fabiani closing confirmation that the collapse in the second half of Skiathlon yesterday was probably due more & ugrave; the distance of step skating, recovering three positions and showing that, in a hypothetical main event that quest & rsquo; year but there will be no agrave ;, & blues could fight for medals.
RELAY 4x7,5 MALE KM LILLEHAMMER & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. NORWAY I (Dyrhaug, Holund, Sundby, Northug) 1: 13: 25.7 2. NORWAY III (Nyenget, Rundgreen, Sveen, Krogh) +2.8 3. NORWAY II (Iversen, T ø nseth, R ø tea, gl ø Ersen) +14.8 4. RUSSIA (Volzhentsev, Vylegzhanin, Legkov, Larkov) +31.9 5. RUSSIA II (Belov, Bessmertnykh, Turyshev, Ustiugov) +42.1 6. ITALY (Pellegrino, N & ouml; ckler, Clara, De Fabiani ) +43.6
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It & egrave; cos & Igrave; It ended two days of Lillehammer. The next round of the World Cup Cross-Country Male & egrave; set for next weekend: in Davos will be planning a 30 km free technique starting at intervals and a Sprint always skating.
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