Cross Country Skiing - Ski Tours Canada
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Heidi Weng seems to have finally unlocked, so that the Skiathlon Canmore takes third win of the season and career, keeping the leadership of the Ski Tours Canada.
Wednesday 9 March 2016 6 minutes reading time
As expected, after a few hundred meters away from the Therese Johaug & egrave; gi & agrave; in command, but contrary to recent releases not alone, because Heidi Weng gets in the wake and follows as a & rsquo; shade for everyone and 7.5 kilometers of the classic segment. The two Norwegians, while digging a furrow with the chasing group, do not make a vacuum, so that the separation of the pursuers, varies between 10 and 15 seconds.
Does not change the music in the freestyle segment, with Johaug dictating the pace and Weng than the one-meter spring, while from behind do not recover and not lose. The race is decided on the long final straight where Weng submits its best qualities of sprinter, managing to cut the finish line first and take back the purple leader bib of the Ski Tours Canada, sottrattole provisionally from Johaug thanks to second gleaned along rebate path.
For Weng & egrave; This is the number three all-inclusive victory is the career of the season, the second of this Ski Tours Canada that sees always ahead and always by the same margin tight against Johaug. It promises a very interesting duel between these two girls are giving birth to more & ugrave competition; uncertain of all the & rsquo; winter with regard to the women's cross-country skiing.
The sprint for the third place was won by Astrid Jacobsen that, given the gap of two minutes suffered by Maiken Caspersen Falla, put on ice for a place on the podium in the final standings of the Canadian Tour. Among the top eight are only Norwegians and Finns: Fourth & egrave; Krista P & ä ä rm; Koski, fifth Anne Kyll & ouml; nen, sixth Ingvild Flugstad & Ø StBerG, seventh and eighth Kerttu Niskanen Laura Mononen. Completing the top ten ever more & ugrave; convincing Nathalie Von Siebenthal, ninth, and the fifth a subject of King Harald, Kari & Ø YRE Slind, tenth.
As for the general classification of the World Cup, basically nothing changes, more and Johaug quietly in the lead with 2201 points, exactly 200 more & ugrave; of & Ø StBerG and 401 of Weng. Given the situation in the multistage competition going on d & rsquo; work & Ø StBerG should care more & ugrave; to defend the second place that does not hope for an unlikely attack on the Crystal Ball.
signs of life in the house Italy, with Virginia De Martin Topranin that centers the first points finish of the North American trip finishing eighteenth. After a decent start, however, Julia St & uuml; rz slowly recedes until the fortieth place overall, while Gaia Vuerich, finished the format congenial, has not taken off.
SKIATHLON 7.5 + 7.5 KM TC / TL FEMALE CANMORE & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. WENG Heidi (NOR) 39: 41.0 2. Therese Johaug (NOR) +0.8 3. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (NOR) +9.8 4. P & ä ä RM; KOSKI Krista (FIN) +13.4 5. Kyll & ouml; NEN Anne (FIN) +13.5
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Tomorrow is the last day off before the grand finale. Friday & igrave; and Saturday in fact, always in Canmore, happening the last two stages of the Ski Tours Canada, as well as & eacute; last two races of the 2015-16 World Cup. The program includes a 10 km free technique starting at intervals and l & rsquo; tracking to final classic.
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