Halfvarsson got seconds against itself – Daily

that would not happen in Saturday’s 15 km classic happened.

Calle Halfvarsson losing ground to Petter Northug and Martin Johnsrud Sundby for Sunday’s concluding rock climbing in the Tour de Ski.

– This destroys the little, said Halfvarsson after the messy mass start race.

Overall Runner-up Calle Halfvarsson had set out to not lose seconds to their Norwegian competitors in the Tour de Skis penultimate act.

But so it was. Halfvarsson finished in 27th place, 30 seconds behind the victorious German Tim Tscharnke. More important was that after deduction of bonus seconds have 26.8 seconds to Petter Northug, it was seven in the morning, and 23.7 to Martin Johnsrud Sundby instead of being five before him.

– I had hoped for a better race. I had a really good feeling in your body today, he said.

Halfvarsson drove to a minimum bonus seconds in the trio, 20, while Northug captured the 27 and Sundby 23rd

The Swede was heading towards 15 bonus seconds as number one in the second and final intermediate sprint, but Northug sprinted past him on the last few meters.

Poor slide

The pressures sucking power from both riders, as dropped at the end.

But there were other things that cost too.

– It cost too much inside the stadium every lap. It was on the easy parts I found it hard to keep up.

– You can not really blame the skis, but I can not say I’ve had the best glide today.

Several incidents occurred in the race. Among other things fell Johnsrud Sundby early, as well as later three-time Tour champion Dario Cologna and Russian

Yevgeny Belov. All, however, was quickly back in the field. The Joker Belov is just eight seconds behind Halfvarsson facing mountain trial since he has taken it to the finish in 17th racers.

– I’m disappointed. This destroys the little, but now you can go home and be pissed, so you get bite the bullet and come back tomorrow, said Halfvarsson.

Chasing second place

Halfvarsson quickly saw the end of hunting Scenario front of him.

– It feels like it’s Petter we get to hunt for second place. I think Sundby will go from Petter quite early in the hill.

– Me and Belov’ll probably go to our pace before the hill, we can not run up with them up front. It may be when we will hopefully see them in the hill that the hunt can begin.

The Swedish tactics in the mass start was to keep the momentum and the high road to avoid incidents and violent surges at sprint prices.

– But you have to have the day too, said head coach Richard Griffin, who, however, praised Daniel Richardson’s sacrificial wear to help Halfvarsson when it received at the end and Hellner who took the lead in the middle of the race.

First Swedish Case was the tour debutant Simon Andersson at 20th place.