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On Thursday, the ladies will run the relay at the World Ski Championships. Four skiers from each team will cover five kilometers each.
The next day, the male replacement is decided. Then the carriers will cut ten kilometers each.
It is as larval as it is old that female and male careers are not that long in the world of skiing. Not even in sprint competitions do cyclists drive that far.
When Jonna Sundling won her sprinting gold, the distance was 1,184 meters. In the men’s sprint it was 1,531.
As obvious as it should be that prize money is the same for ladies and gentlemen, the distances they travel should be, too. In the WC, only the sprint has the same distance, 1,223 meters, in each distance.
When the ladies relieve Two teams must be decided, Sweden must benefit from poorly updated gender equality in the ski world and that is not four times ten kilometers.
Because given the way Therese Johaug is now, she would have every chance in the world to be able to decide the relay on her own if she had to drive 10 kilometers.
After Saturday’s skiathlon race, Ebba Andersson said that unlike before, it was easy for her to keep up with Therese Johaug in the first half. Andersson seemed to forget that Johaug, however, had fallen into the classic stage.
Therese Johaug said after the race that she had slowed down at the end of the freestyle portion.
And after Tuesday’s gold, Johaug said he hasn’t done a better one-mile freestyle race in his career. That says a lot. A 54-second margin of victory tells the rest.
Two years ago, Sweden won a World Cup gold in the women’s relay for the first time. Now the team is designated as a favorite for the first time.
I do not agree with over. As long as Therese Johaug is involved and as long as she is in this form, Norway will not be defeated. It feels like an open story between two pre-senior teams.
It may well be a tactical game towards the riots and the tactical game started already two days before the relay. Then both teams moved their press conferences where the teams were to be released.
For Sweden, there were two key questions that would be answered.
Who would be the fourth woman? Charlotte Kalla, Ebba Andersson and Frida Karlsson were delivered. And what would the order in the team look like?
The answer to the first question was double world sprint champion Jonna Sundling. The answer to the other was Sundling and Kalla in the two introductory classical distances. Andersson and Karlsson take the next toughest freestyle distances.
In Norway, Tiril Udnes Weng, Heidi Weng, Therese Johaug and Helene Marie Fossesholm travel in shifts.
Neither Sweden nor Norway has a sprinter at the end, with what was previously speculated. The reason is that skating distances have longer and more difficult climbs.
The key, then, will be that the third leg, Ebba Andersson, manages to hang on to Therese Johaug, as best he can.
Finally: If the distances for men and women must be equal in the world of skiing, what should you do with Tjejvasan?
Take the prize money and turn it into a pure fitness race. And so elite skiers can focus on the nine miles from Sälen to Mora. Whether ladies or gentlemen.
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