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Libertine Seguros said:
Diggins said after the sprint yesterday that she wasn't in such good form atm. My guess is that that's to do with this being a Nordic Worlds year, last year there were no championships so the season-long goals were the World Cup and the Tour de Ski, both of which she won.

She could still win this or at least podium if she is good enough on the last hill (she's working really hard to catch Johaug and Weng now, but from a group with the likes of Andersson and Laukli she'd have to screw up pretty bad not to win the sprint).

Edit: alright, Sundling is going with her, that changes things in terms of the fight for the win as Diggins will need not only to catch the Norwegians up front (which she's doing a good job of so far) but also try to get rid of Sundling up the hill.

OK, so despite Johaug's efforts on the big climb to the timing marker, Sundling's got them back on. Diggins able to glide longer on the downhill, as usual the American skis working well on the downhill, but she's struggling to stay on the other three on the uphills and having to work hard to get back on time and again.
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That was really good racing, hard battle. It'll be very interesting to see how Johaug's form curve is during the season; so impressive she's at this level and I have to believe as she hardens up to the racing she'll be better. Diggins looked good on that last hill, everyone burned their last matches. Do you think Diggins was really struggling on the the hills or perhaps she just let a little gap go to keep the heart-rate below the redline, knowing she could count on her skis to get her back on? Hard to tell with her sometimes. Always impressed by how tough Sundling is at this type of racing while being such a great sprinter as well; very hard core and one of my favorite skiers.
 
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KZD said:
Amundsen looking good to win the World Cup again if Klæbo keeps getting sick. Good race from Vermeulen.

Sundling losing in the sprint against Diggins is a bit disappointing but if she keeps this shape and targets the overall she could provide the American with a real challenge.
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Also, Sundling skiing all the rounds yesterday and coming back so strong today is super-impressive. She is a beast!
 
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dobrien said:
That was really good racing, hard battle. It'll be very interesting to see how Johaug's form curve is during the season; so impressive she's at this level and I have to believe as she hardens up to the racing she'll be better. Diggins looked good on that last hill, everyone burned their last matches. Do you think Diggins was really struggling on the the hills or perhaps she just let a little gap go to keep the heart-rate below the redline, knowing she could count on her skis to get her back on? Hard to tell with her sometimes. Always impressed by how tough Sundling is at this type of racing while being such a great sprinter as well; very hard core and one of my favorite skiers.
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Maybe the penultimate hill with the hairpin she was calculating it, but I think the long hill at the timing beacon was legit, they lost 4-5 seconds in the chase very quickly there. I suspect that was Johaug burning one of her last matches because she has to come to the line alone, even against Weng. After all it was Sundling that then made the junction and she gapped Diggins in the process, although Diggins had been doing all the work to chase until that point.

I just think Sundling made a bad choice in the finale, picking to go behind Weng when Johaug looked to struggle, and not reacting quickly enough when Weng didn't create a gap, meaning Diggins pre-empted her and got the ideal line through the middle. Sundling had the closing speed, but having to go around Weng and the headstart on opening up for the finish and taking the ideal line on the last corner Diggins had got meant Sundling ran out of course to get up to Diggins AND then sprint.
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
Maybe the penultimate hill with the hairpin she was calculating it, but I think the long hill at the timing beacon was legit, they lost 4-5 seconds in the chase very quickly there. I suspect that was Johaug burning one of her last matches because she has to come to the line alone, even against Weng. After all it was Sundling that then made the junction and she gapped Diggins in the process, although Diggins had been doing all the work to chase until that point.

I just think Sundling made a bad choice in the finale, picking to go behind Weng when Johaug looked to struggle, and not reacting quickly enough when Weng didn't create a gap, meaning Diggins pre-empted her and got the ideal line through the middle. Sundling had the closing speed, but having to go around Weng and the headstart on opening up for the finish and taking the ideal line on the last corner Diggins had got meant Sundling ran out of course to get up to Diggins AND then sprint.
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Good analysis.
 
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dobrien said:
That was really good racing, hard battle. It'll be very interesting to see how Johaug's form curve is during the season; so impressive she's at this level and I have to believe as she hardens up to the racing she'll be better. Diggins looked good on that last hill, everyone burned their last matches. Do you think Diggins was really struggling on the the hills or perhaps she just let a little gap go to keep the heart-rate below the redline, knowing she could count on her skis to get her back on? Hard to tell with her sometimes. Always impressed by how tough Sundling is at this type of racing while being such a great sprinter as well; very hard core and one of my favorite skiers.
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I think Diggins almost blow up after chasing the intermediate sprint but then she managed to regroup and paced the last one and half lap beautifully
 
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QueenStagiaire said:
So, are the French actually going to go 0-0? Looking good
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Never underestimate Émilien Jacquelin's ability to choke. I don't know what happened to him a couple of years ago because he used to be one of those guys who was really energised and improved by a battle at the last lap, now he seems to have inherited Simon Fourcade's knack of going too hard and blowing up, either at the last range visit or on the last lap. He'll get away with it today (41 seconds is almost certainly too much even for Johannes Thingnes Bø) but it has cost him several times in the last couple of seasons.
 
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Simon had a Jacquelin moment in the last shooting of the women's relay, she shot so fast that the cameraman couldn't follow, got herself one penalty loop as a result and then on the last climb she cramped badly while getting dropped by Elvira Öberg, narrowly finishing the race in second ahead of Tandrevold.
 
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Pueyo is talented, if he had better skis, he could have reached the semi-finals. On the opposite end of the spectrum Myhre had two rockets on her feet to propel her to a career best result. Häggström managed to grab another win for Sweden though.

Good races from the Finish men overall but absolutely no surprise on the top2.
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You mean Hagström (Johanna.) Häggström is the male skier Johan. I know, only two letters...
 
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Tandrevold felt the symptoms and simply stopped for like 30 seconds until she could breathe normally and then continued as normal. This is what she has been taught by her medics. I think if she know how to handle it before we would have avoided the painful scenes in Oberhof and Olympics
 
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