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Like it or not, Tour de Ski is a high point of the season and it'll be
here soon! http://www.tour-de-ski.com/ Norway sends out a team of eleven skiers (criteria: good chances of overall podium finish or stage win) Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Marit Bjørgen Marte Kristoffersen Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Martin Johnsrud Sundby Petter Northug Tord Asle Gjerdalen Eldar Rønning Tor Arne Hetland John Kristian Dahl Finland settles for seven skiers (criteria: top twenty overall): Virpi Kuitunen Pirjo Muranen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Matti Heikkinen Sami Jauhojärvi Ville Nousiainen (Swedish team not announced yet, but Johan Olsson will give TdS a pass.) Anders |
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Thanks Anders,
I want to see Kalla and Steira battle on a big climbing finish. |
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I'm sure that Tour de Ski will be fantastic, as always I'm sad that
my favourite skier won't start - Odd Bjoern Hjelmeset, but I understand this decision, probably it will be really hard for him to be as strong as he was ... but he's already 37 years old. I can add polish team for Tour de Ski (any surprises, it's the same as always) like you did with Norway and Finland: Justyna Kowalczyk Sylwia Jaskowiec Kornela Marek Paulina Maciuszek/Martyna Galewicz Janusz Krezelok Maciej Kreczmer Mariusz Michalek |
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Tour de Ski
This list answers part of my question about Marit Bjørgen, tho she said
the World Championships are the high point of this season. I don't think she's alone in that view. Gene Anders wrote: Like it or not, Tour de Ski is a high point of the season and it'll be here soon! http://www.tour-de-ski.com/ Norway sends out a team of eleven skiers (criteria: good chances of overall podium finish or stage win) Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Marit Bjørgen Marte Kristoffersen Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Martin Johnsrud Sundby Petter Northug Tord Asle Gjerdalen Eldar Rønning Tor Arne Hetland John Kristian Dahl Finland settles for seven skiers (criteria: top twenty overall): Virpi Kuitunen Pirjo Muranen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Matti Heikkinen Sami Jauhojärvi Ville Nousiainen (Swedish team not announced yet, but Johan Olsson will give TdS a pass.) Anders |
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On Dec 17, 9:57*am, wrote:
This list answers part of my question about Marit Bjørgen, tho she said the World Championships are the high point of this season. *I don't think she's alone in that view. Gene Anders wrote: Like it or not, Tour de Ski is a high point of the season and it'll be here soon! http://www.tour-de-ski.com/ Norway sends out a team of eleven skiers (criteria: good chances of overall podium finish or stage win) Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Marit Bjørgen Marte Kristoffersen Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Martin Johnsrud Sundby Petter Northug Tord Asle Gjerdalen Eldar Rønning Tor Arne Hetland John Kristian Dahl Finland settles for seven skiers (criteria: top twenty overall): Virpi Kuitunen Pirjo Muranen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Matti Heikkinen Sami Jauhojärvi Ville Nousiainen (Swedish team not announced yet, but Johan Olsson will give TdS a pass.) Anders- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Canada's Team: George Grey Devon Kershaw Ivan Babikov Sara Renner |
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On Dec 17, 4:21*pm, Daniel wrote:
I'm sad that my favourite skier won't start - Odd Bjoern Hjelmeset, but I understand this decision, probably it will be really hard for him to be as strong as he was ... but he's already 37 years old. It wasn't his age that dropped him off the TdS team so much as his athma: on the Monday after Davos he underwent a test at the Norwegian School of Sports Science in Oslo. - Simply put they measured how much air I can manage to breathe out. Unfortunately the results were quite bad. Without medication I managed less than half of what is normal. - Now I cut off all competition, in any case until the second weekend of January. And I won't be doing many hard sessions before the end of the year. - I am an optimist. 15 km classic on February 20th at the World Championships is still my goal. But it is obvious that to get there I will have to be fast in the Norwegian Championships (Jan 15th) and in the WC race in Otepää (Jan 24th). At the moment I don't qualify for the team. Anders |
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On Dec 17, 6:57*pm, wrote:
This list answers part of my question about Marit Bjørgen, tho she said the World Championships are the high point of this season. *I don't think she's alone in that view. "Two years ago Marit Bjørgen said that the Tour de Ski was like made for her. She came second. Last year she said the same thing, but travelled home in tears before completing the tour. - It is time to deliver. So far it's only been talk from me. The two Finns, Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen have appeared to be unstoppable, but Marit counts herself among the favourites to be first on top of Alpe Cermis. - I absolutely believe it is possible to beat them, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to be there. But they are obviously really good skiers. And they will benefit greatly from each other, especially in the classic mass start stage in Val di Fiemme. They will surely have the ambition to take all the bonus seconds they can get. She is more interested in her own condition, though. She has changed the way she has periodized her training this season with an eye on how to be at peak form. Basically that has meant more easy quantity training also after the World Cup season has started, instead of tapering (? "samle overskudd", "collect a surplus") for every race. She has nevertheless been on the podium in five of the six individual WC races she has done. - I have felt heavy (worn), especially in Davos. But that's according to the plan. Now I'm awfully keen to see how the rest of the plan will work, so that I'll be in peak form in Liberec. It sounds simple when one says it, but it must be put to reality as well. Even if the TdS is an important goal for this season. it is also a part of the preparation for the World Championships. - The plan is that the tour shall act as a period of hard training. The hope is that my form will improve during the tour. - It would appear brash to say that I will win. You must be succesful and have luck at each and every stage. But I will go for the victory. Bjørgen is pleased that instead of the full quote of 18 skiers there are only eleven in the Norwegian team. - I hoped that the team would be as small as possible. The stress on the wax guys and the whole service team is enormous. Therefore I believe that it is correct to prioritize those who have a chance to win. That's how it is." |
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On Dec 17, 1:46*pm, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote: I want to see Kalla and Steira battle on a big climbing finish. You cannot always get what you want. Or you may see them battle each other, albeit not for the victory. The odds are that only those who can keep up with the gruesome Finnish twosome on the classic stages will be in the position to be the first to reach the top of Alpe Cermis. Kalla's win last year can turn out to have been a fluke that wouldn't happened without a fortuitous snowfall in the C mass start in Val di Fiemme (and I think Kalla already has Liberec higher in her list of priorities than many of her competitors in TdS). Steira will, I'm afraid, still be too much handicapped by her relatively poor classic skiing. Follis, Shevchenko and Kowalczyk are all bound to have at least one bad day, the Russians and the Germans seem to be going nowhere (Katrin Zeller would be my longshot, though); I'm afraid that only Marit Bjørgen has the ability to do well (or at least to avoid doing badly) both in sprint and in distance races and both in freestyle and in classic. Anders |
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Thanks for all the quotes!
Anders wrote: On Dec 17, 6:57*pm, wrote: This list answers part of my question about Marit Bjørgen, tho she said the World Championships are the high point of this season. *I don't think she's alone in that view. "Two years ago Marit Bjørgen said that the Tour de Ski was like made for her. She came second. Last year she said the same thing, but travelled home in tears before completing the tour. - It is time to deliver. So far it's only been talk from me. The two Finns, Virpi Kuitunen and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen have appeared to be unstoppable, but Marit counts herself among the favourites to be first on top of Alpe Cermis. - I absolutely believe it is possible to beat them, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to be there. But they are obviously really good skiers. And they will benefit greatly from each other, especially in the classic mass start stage in Val di Fiemme. They will surely have the ambition to take all the bonus seconds they can get. She is more interested in her own condition, though. She has changed the way she has periodized her training this season with an eye on how to be at peak form. Basically that has meant more easy quantity training also after the World Cup season has started, instead of tapering (? "samle overskudd", "collect a surplus") for every race. She has nevertheless been on the podium in five of the six individual WC races she has done. - I have felt heavy (worn), especially in Davos. But that's according to the plan. Now I'm awfully keen to see how the rest of the plan will work, so that I'll be in peak form in Liberec. It sounds simple when one says it, but it must be put to reality as well. Even if the TdS is an important goal for this season. it is also a part of the preparation for the World Championships. - The plan is that the tour shall act as a period of hard training. The hope is that my form will improve during the tour. - It would appear brash to say that I will win. You must be succesful and have luck at each and every stage. But I will go for the victory. Bjørgen is pleased that instead of the full quote of 18 skiers there are only eleven in the Norwegian team. - I hoped that the team would be as small as possible. The stress on the wax guys and the whole service team is enormous. Therefore I believe that it is correct to prioritize those who have a chance to win. That's how it is." |
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