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15k Classic Individual start - Petter Northug?
The subject says it all, I believe Petter N is now officially a complete
skier: He's won lots and lots of mass start events, from sprint to 50k, as well as every single relay where he's been a contender. Today he managed to overcome a 8 second deficit over the last couple of km, with most of it seemingly inside the stadium, for his first ever individual start world cup win. I'm impressed! Terje -- - Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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15k Classic Individual start - Petter Northug?
On Nov 29, 9:36*pm, Terje Mathisen wrote:
The subject says it all, I believe Petter N is now officially a complete skier: Those are almost the exact words used by Jarmo Punkkinen who commentated the ra ce for Finnish TV and added "I have run our of any reservations against him". Punkkinen also pointed out that the course in Ruka is one where - despite it appearing deceptively easy when you view it as a course profile - you don't get anything for free. He's won lots and lots of mass start events, from sprint to 50k, as well as every single relay where he's been a contender. And a couple of individual start 15 km F races - but only at FIS or national level. Before Beito, where he was fourth, his best World Cup result had been the 7th in Lahti in March, a rather lonely exception among the many barely-in-WC-points. Today he managed to overcome a 8 second deficit over the last couple of km, with most of it seemingly inside the stadium, for his first ever individual start world cup win. According to my inofficial timing - I haven't checked a rerun of the race - he was about three seconds behind Vylegzhanin at the "40 seconds to the finish line" mark and his winning margin was over one second. The Russian was not among those who faded in the end and I'm willing to bet that with the possible exception of Kris Freeman (of whom I never saw a glimpse on the tracks or in the intermediate times) he was by far the fastest in those last hundreds of meters. It is as if he was now able to produce his trademark final kick also in the absence of a man-to-man-battle. I'm impressed! You're impressed - I was speechless! Anders PS it was somehow nice to see the Russians back in force, too. And there is something much more sympathetic in Saarinen than in Kuitunen both in victory and in defeat. |
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