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THE There’s a lot to learn about cross-country skiing in NRK’s winter study. No newsroom maintains the same professional level in national sport. At least not if TV2 doesn’t have Petter Northug.
Today, the topic was Therese Johaug’s tactic. It almost had to be this way when a skier blows up a large NM field in about a minute after the start, and has still only walked a few hundred meters of 15km in freezing cold.
Therese is a freak on skis. Almost unbeatable in any distance race on equal terms before, and now even better than ever.
Perhaps the classic run at Lygna last weekend and the first classic part of today’s NM hunt start, the most effective I have ever skied.
So it was perfect for the NRK experts to point out the secret of Johaug’s career plan. The job of these experts is to explain the sport to the television audience. Not protecting the Norwegian World Cup chances in Oberstdorf in a month and a half.
Everyone benefits from making it as exciting as possible.
Johaug shook rivals – received criticism
ASTRID UHRENHOLDT JACOBSEN; The last solid contribution to the NRK team of experts with Torgeir Bjørn, Jann Post and Fredrik Aukland, had studied Johaug’s speed development in Lygna’s big race and had seen the little hope for all competitors:
- Therese Johaug’s big run comes with a real speed difference where speed drops noticeably on the road.
There can be several explanations for this. Of course, first and foremost, how Therese herself evaluates the competition and the need to push the pace.
But for the increasingly strong Frida Karlsson, who is extremely open, this point is very interesting.
FOR Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen proposed her own experiences with this tactic; a recent knowledge that obviously reinforces the journalistic product of NRK.
And Swedish golden opportunities at the World Cup:
– Therese is always the fastest from the start. If I managed to get stuck in the first few kilometers, it was possibleAstrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen said from her own duels with Johaug, and at the same time she came up with the best advice Frida Karlsson could get:
- Overtake Therese’s opening speed and risk her sinking to an almost human level.
Because there is no one else on the field of the next World Cup who can apparently resist better than Frida to squeeze forces that she really does not have.
Except for Therese Johaug herself then.
SILENT without the audience, the track microphones capture this extreme in sport. Sick breath. How every altitude gauge along the way eventually turns into a struggle with yourself to get enough air.
All the more impressed were the NRK experts themselves at how Therese technically went there at the front of the track:
– Watch him throw himself into the snow. There she differs from all the international cross-country skiing girls.Torgeir Bjørn explained the controlled speed in the first classic kilometers and continued a few minutes later with a review of why he was going so fast with Therese’s stake out on the flat parts:
– She sets the posts well in the snow in front of her and gets a long power arm.
THE It is these constantly visible technical improvements that characterize Therese’s almost sensational development after her return ahead of the last World Cup in Seefeld in 2019.
Together these details give you an edge that makes the tactics themselves less crucial. In any case, it is too fast for the competitors.
THE the difference has in explanation for. The better Therese skis technically, the less vulnerable she becomes to differences. And the more you can bet on the fastest possible lubrication:
– It becomes easier to place. And you slide better Uhrenholdt Astrid Jacobsen pointed out.
YES She is studying the speed development of this NM race, the new NRK expert will likely see the consequences of this particular change.
This time it was more than extreme openness that gave Heidi Weng, Helene Marie Fossesholm and the other girls along the way trouble:
- Also, when Weng and Fossesholm fought for the silver medal, the distance with Johaug in front increased.
It happened in freestyle with a surface that Therese herself believes was difficult. There he struggled to maintain technique in the double dance due to all the grooves in the snow, and immediately criticized the way he did not put enough pressure on the cuts. That she stood a little in the middle.
Keeps offers secret
ENOUGH a technical detail: that’s it. And more to explain to the good folks at NRK who are simply doing their job of saying what could make Therese Johaug the greatest skier ever.
So even the big Swedish rivals need more than a poorly hidden tactical secret to reach the World Cup finish line.
