wrote:
Skofterud has a habit of going out hard and posting leading times
early, before fading. No doubt Norway is hoping she can keep it up for
5k.

The jury is in: Yes, she did! (Despite dislocating her shoulder in the
7.5+7.5).

All 4 girls did very good races, even if Justina K were far faster than
anyone else on the second leg and Kalla did a very good 3rd leg:

With Bjørgen starting in the lead and Germany ca 25 seconds behind,
there really wasn't anyone else who might have had a chance to beat her.
:-)

Terje
PS. SI tipped Norway to get 7 Golds, that's the current number and
there's still a few medal events left: Men's biathlon relay, 30K
(Bjørgen?) and 50K (Petter unless doing every single race so far has
taken too much out of him, in which case Bauer is the obvious
favourite), as well as Curling (the guys with the trousers!)

I'm guessing 8 as the final count.

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- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
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