Falun. Nobody saw tracks in the snow, but everyone saw where they led.
Petter Northug waved away the competition Petter Northug stroked away a tear, Petter Northug was a step above everyone else.
It was so Championships began, it was so Championships ended.
There are many who whines, there are many who criticize, there are many that fold down.
And there’s only one Johan Olsson.
Sometimes it is easier to understand the greatness of riders that Petter Northug or Johan Olsson when they have the wind in your face than when they actually wins.
If Northug pokes down himself to the bottom of both society and sports with a late night booze-soaked stupidity but they manage to get back so say it anything.
Johan Olsson just been through to see a femmil dream drown in slush and we’ll see who he really is.
” Is no indoor sports “
He had every right in the world to whine, criticize, fold down. Instead, he sat down in front of us with the ski world’s straightest back.
– This is what we are doing, ‘he said. There is no indoor sports.
It is clear that he was frustrated, but that mental strength and attitude to life, he carved out during the years and years of work would not have if they did not help him even days like this .
– You have to be flexible, you can not just have a plan, he said.
Falun closed the doors of evil snow and track that was like a crushed ice lollies. It was up to each one to play your cards right, even if they now have the worst hand.
For a skier who Olsson, who build their strength on the ability to push off, it was disastrous. None responded, it was like going into obnoxious white quicksand.
Czech silver man Lukas Bauer has gone both on ice and in the deluge, but he called this “among the worst conditions I’ve ever gone in.” That says a lot. 2015, we received a Falun femmil that looked like something out of a newsreel: riders who scissored up hills, shoveling snow in front of him, did everything just to survive.
For a while I was convinced that I glimpsed Mora-Nisse on a fairly prominent position in the peloton.
And yes, I did, after all, more of him than of Petter Northug Junior.
Northug bought a ticket in second class
His entire career, from Turin petningen until one Sunday in Sweden, has been run by a fight against imaginary and real enemies. It’s an uphill battle area that motivates him, the wars that defines him.
VM week began with him beating everyone in the sprint and went lap of honor with his arms outstretched, they ended by saying that he lay down in the back of the peloton and tore the remaining four mil and nine kilometers. Others had done the job, honor, Anders Sodergren had been up and put paint on a milk-white races (he finished in fifteenth place, the same place in their first ever World Cup femmil fourteen years ago).
Northug? After 1.5 mil he was eleven, after three mil 27th, after 4.5 mil ten. He bought a ticket in second grade, and let others run the train.
– Many say that he just go with, but they do not know what it’s like to ride 46 kilometers. All have gum in my legs at the end, said Johan Olsson.
It’s just that Northugs gum is of an entirely different kind than all the others.
During the last lap last mile chopped he slowly up through the field to position themselves for the sprint. Gammel lads Olsson and Lukas Bauer – on fresh skis – hung in long, country pursuit champion Maksim Vylegsjanin looked very strong out.
But the door came, and the express train went by.
Petter Northug went the last two hundred meters as if he had never gone to the first 48,800, he dubbelstakade as on rioting snow said something about his mother, and there was no one who was close to respond.
For the fourth time he won a femmil at a championship. The aggregate victory distance across the four races is 4.4 seconds.
One of Swedish ski sports greatest
Mass start reform has played him straight in his hands, he has accepted and received.
– He brought something new and has been the best so far, said Johan Olsson. All chases him, everyone is trying to copy him, but no one will catch up.
And now Johan himself stop chasing.
It’s over now, he repeats it, and when Falun devotes the coming years to sum up a championship that has given magical memories and scandalous budgethål we can dedicate ourselves to summarize a Swedish ski sports greatest careers.
Johan Olsson learned to give their body a chance, it responded by give him thirteen championship medals. He concluded by stealing a bronze medal in front of a bouncy ride, swaying Vylegsjanin, and these last, incredible Olsson years, we also thank the coach Rikard Grip for. He was humble and wise enough to let Johan Olsson determine Johan Olsson.
Now it’s over. The last time Johan Olsson climbed up on a stool, it was to set up a meter just below a pipe, Norwegian ski king.
He stood there with a straight back, I will miss him very much.
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