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Charlotte Kalla to finish the race at 10 km, fot. PAP / EPA
Charlotte Kalla and so would probably today champion of the world, because no matter what the conditions were in incredible shape. “At one of the meetings in Charlotte passed me like a Porsche passes wagon” – said at the finish fourteenth Sylwia Jaśkowiec today. “Even if the snow started in foot-and so would have won. There is probably no man in the world who would put on a podium,” – she added, in turn, Justyna Kowalczyk, who followed the competition commentator booths today.
Because the two other medalists, or American Diggins and Gregg, benefited from the densely falling snow. The Norwegians Johaug and Bjoergen paid a huge price for the failure to comply with conditions; defending champion was 27 and had just crowned the winner of the World Cup – 31. “Our lubrication was catastrophic” – summed up the head of the Norwegian cross-country skiing Age Skinstad, who brought to the Falun fifteen serwismenów. But their work is a topic for another text.
Here I wanted to remind you that this is simply the charm of sports winter. The more that the cross-country skiing aura and so relatively rare distorts the results. The last example on the great event we had eight years ago. In Sapporo in 2007 like a snowstorm passed over the route during the run men 15 km free technique. Won the silver medal Leonid Karneyenka. Belarusian, who had never even competed in the World Cup, he was lucky because I was moving on the road with the third starting number when the weather is not yet resolved.
Similar stories can certainly remember ski jumping fans. In 2005 in Oberstdorf world champion on the normal hill was Benković year. Slovenia used the wind and reached up to the first series of 101 meters, while the then favorites – like. Adam Malysz, Thomas Morgenstern and Martin Hoellwarth – landed about 5-6 meters closer. In the second series of conditions were already bad for everyone, allowing Benkoviciowi to achieve the greatest success of his career. At the present time it would not have been possible, however, because of the introduction of calculators for wind, competitions have become a bit more fair.
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