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The Norwegian presenter surprised the rivals in the final stage.
OBERSTDORF / OSLO (Nettavisen): Norway’s team sprint duo Erik Valnes and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo had the clear favorite stamp and delivered in the team sprint final at the World Ski Championships.
It was exciting when the Russian duo got a small lead over Norway before the final stage in Klæbo, but the man from Trøndelag proved once again why he is the best cross-country sprinter in the world.
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The seconds that the Russians had won were reached first, before the 24-year-old surpassed Gleb Retivykh and Finn Joni Mäki on the small climb a few hundred meters before the finish line.
– He thought he was more alert.
This is how Klæbo describes the crucial phase in an interview with Nettavisen:
– I think it was important. I tried to find another way, so I got a clear track and could go if I felt like it. I tried to go once and felt that it responded well where it was a little sharper. I heard from above that it had a hatch, and then I thought I had to drive the whole hill to the finish. It was a magical feeling, Klæbo tells Nettavisen.
– I think some chose the path a bit strange, says Klæbo in an interview with NRK.
– Craziness
Opposite the same channel, Norwegian sprint coach Arild Monsen describes it as crazy from the competitors to go the “ideal track” also at the end.
– He made it even easier when the Russian was not even where he slid best. It was even where the slippage was worst, Monsen tells Nettavisen.
Klæbo’s maneuver and beat in the paddle technique gave Norway several meters almost immediately. Neither the Russian nor the Finnish rival could respond to the pull.
– He sweeps from them! Have you seen! Jann Post uninterrupted, on the incident on the last hill.
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Finland impressed, however, and won the silver medals. Mäki asked in front of Retivykh on the run. The Russian athletes finished in bronze.
They separated 1.68 and 2.08 seconds, respectively, from Klæbo, who with the usual style was able to take it easy in the last meters.
Offensive Bolshunov
Saturday’s skiathlon winner Aleksandr Bolshunov attempted a surprising move against Valnes who was already on stage three of six, and Klæbo thus had a couple of seconds to catch up with Gleb Retivykh.
Russia also had the initiative in stages four and five. Valnes still did enough to keep up
4.3 seconds away from the Russians to Klæbo when the last stage started.
Finland and Mäki clung to Norway, before Klæbo fired up the turbo, no one in the cross-country elite manages to match.
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