Saturday's pursuit races at Falun should be good, for two main reasons. First, as the course map/profile shows, the skiers are apparently going to have to climb the Mördarbacken several times: twice in the women's 2x5k race (two laps), four times in the men's 2x10k race (four laps). Brutal. Second, thanks to the way the Stockholm sprints affected Friday's Mördarbacken prologues, the start lists are interesting mixes of pure distance racers, pure sprinters, and all-rounders.
Skiers in the last group will show up best on Saturday, of course. I don't think Kowalczyk will either gain or lose much time on Saturday, meaning she'll hold onto her narrow lead over Bjørgen in the general classification. On the other hand, Mats Larsson will give up his lead in the men's standings, and see at least Cologna and Northug move past him.
1. Bjørgen
2. Kowalczyk
3. Kalla
1. Northug
2. Cologna
3. Hellner
(What, by the way, happened to Bauer? He didn't do a thing in the prologue - too short a distance, I guess.)
1 comments:
That much climbing?? Put your money on Ivan to turn in a hot day time. Too bad he's a terrible sprinter, so he's got too much time to make up.
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