Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
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Resolves as expected in the 15 km sprint classic technique with mass start of Lake Tesero, and win & egrave; German Tim Tscharnke burning photo finish Alexey Poltoranin and Dario Cologna.
Saturday 10 January 2015 5 minutes reading time
The format pi & ugrave; boring of skiing today makes no exceptions, seeing a group of 28 boys compact proceed towards the muzzle. Not even the sprint bonus seconds with intermediate enliven the situation, although they have proved decisive for the ambitions of Petter Northug and Calle Halfvarsson: Norway comes second and first, respectively, but the wasted energy force him to raise the white flag in the final and lose 13 seconds the finish line than Martin Johnsrud Sundby. Same goes for the Swede, who won the second sprint but collapses in the final, finishing twenty-seventh in 26 seconds from the one who & egrave; became the number one favorite to win the Tour de Ski.
Sundby fact proves once more & ugrave; great tactical intelligence, winning the first sprint with subsidies despite a fall suffered in the first round and finishing in the belly of the group since the finish line. The Norwegian gets l & rsquo; eighth stage, but failed to gain a few seconds on Northug that will allow it to start as number one favorite for the win on top of the Cermis. Out likely classification instead Evgeniy Belov, in turn restrained by a fall around the tenth kilometer and at the end seventeenth.
The stage was won by Tim Tscharnke, the second successful career after the one obtained in Canmore December 13, 2012 more in a 15 km classic technique. Burned photo finish Alexey Poltoranin, good at hiding throughout the race but mocked in the final from the German. Complete the podium Dario Cologna, involved in the same fall that, perhaps, has compromised the Tour de Ski Belov, but manages to get in the lead on the final straight, hitting the podium number 64 of his career. Good test of the second Russian lines with Stanislav Volzhentsev fourth, fifth and Alexander Bessmertnykh Andrey Larkov ninth best result of the season for the & rsquo; another German Thomas Bing sixth. Sundby said eighth in the top ten are also two Italians.
Seventh & egrave; a fact Francesco De Fabiani back in shape after the stomach problems that have weakened in the last two stages, while the tenth & egrave; Dietmar N & ouml; ckler: the two blue replicate cos & Igrave; the same result achieved in & rsquo; tracking Obertsdorf Disputatio last Sunday. Well, especially in the optical scaling to the Cermis tomorrow, reviving Giorgio Di Centa twelfth and fourteenth Roland Clara. Stage anonymous instead for Mattia Pellegrin forty and forty-sixth David Hofer.
15 KM TC MASS START LAKE TESERO & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. TSCHARNKE Tim (GER) 46: 48.8 2. POLTORANIN Alexey (KAZ) +0.0 3. Dario Cologna (SUI) +0.3 4. VOLZHENTSEV Stanislav (RUS) +0.7 5. BESSMERTNYKH Alexander (RUS) +0.7
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In the overall standings of the Tour de Ski, Petter Northug should remain in the lead but with very little margin of Sundby; losing ground instead Halfvarsson and Belov, which will be played on the podium. We will propose the overall standings as soon as official by FIS.
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Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
Tim Tscharnke photo finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de Ski. Sundby towards the final triumph
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