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It is the most time-honoured Iivo Niskanen strategy. Drop everybody and then drop yourself.
It's just that with his illness he does not have the level to do the first part today.
Virtually simultaneously, crazy. When it's lights out it's lights out I guess.
Impressive from Iversen to come back after struggling for the past couple of seasons
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Desloges dying on his skis too now. This is pure attrition as you might expect from the last race of the schedule and being the longest and most gruelling (plus being in Classic).
Obviously it's less significant given most of these didn't do the Team Sprint, but it might also be worth noting the men went after the women on alternating days through the first week while they are before them here, so there have been fewer recovery days for them. It's also of course largely exacerbated by the illnesses going around.
Korostelëv distanced now, Lovera struggling to hold on, it's going to be a cavalcade to escort Klæbo to the line isn't it...
Obviously it's less significant given most of these didn't do the Team Sprint, but it might also be worth noting the men went after the women on alternating days through the first week while they are before them here, so there have been fewer recovery days for them. It's also of course largely exacerbated by the illnesses going around.
Korostelëv distanced now, Lovera struggling to hold on, it's going to be a cavalcade to escort Klæbo to the line isn't it...
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Niskanen has apparently been sick the whole week and was unsure to even start. He said he wanted to test the first two loops to see if it was possible. Obviously it wasn’t.
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The Norwegian Skis are just ridiculous. You could probably give Florian Notz or Joe Davies those skis and they‘d compete for a medal.
I know he has been sick, but then stay with the pack and let Nyenget make the pace.
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This is why you get out on the course when it's supposed to be parc fermé and take the yellow card...
He has been training with Klæbo this season.
Makes you wonder what could have been if he had made those changes before.
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If you give Notz or Davies the skis of Klæbo (even adjusted for the weight difference) they would struggle to even get up the hills. Klæbo is, because of his outstanding technique, skiing with much less kick wax/klister then the average world cup skier.
Who knows, but at one point he was one of their best before going through a tough spell. Probably many reasons for that.
They are great friends apparently, so maybe finding motivation and having more fun was really important to get back to this form.
He just seems to be in a greater space in his personal life as well. That is important too.
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Everybody changing skis except the Norwegians serenely strolling around at the front, they've only just had their first slips while the others appeared to be really struggling with theirs of late. And if ever there was a team that didn't need a ski performance advantage!
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