Norwegian John Kläbo28, almost always and invariably the first to finish in the Skiing World Cup sprints.
Kläbo Tintta in the finals, for example, on the last uphill at a fierce pace and leaves others, or wings before the final straight down and wins by far.
Many people who follow skiing are certainly familiar to the image.
Since 2019, Norwegian has participated in 52 personal World Cup sprints and won 46 of them. Thus, the winning rate is almost 90.
Since the Winter Olympics 2018, Kläbo has also won all its sprints for the value race.
The importance of profits and championships comes into new spheres, given how sensitive the sport is sprinting.
Why, like other sprinters, doesn’t Kläbo knock in the middle of the race or stay in the bag before the final? Why is Kläbo by far the fastest skier on the planet?
Sometimes it seems that Kläbo has superpowers that no others have.
Head coach of the Finnish national team Teemu Pasanen and Sports Expert, Former Top Printer Kalle Lassila tell the Kläbo success recipe.
Like almost all superheroes, Kläbo has a weak spot on her mind.
Kläbo has several superior features for the sprint skier.
One is that Kläbo is durable and can ski even during normal travel winnings.
When other sprinter specialists start to feel bad already in the finals, Kläbo is still able to hit the full.
In the sprint, the finalists also ski during the day, the first round and the semi-finals.
– Kläbo can still see what others do during the batch phase. In the end, he just plucks off the rest and goes to the continuation. Often I see her skiing full only in the finals, Pasanen estimates.
– Kläbo is overwhelming in speed capacity. In addition, he also has the most acceleration in the world. It gives the tactical side a pretty superior toolbox, says Lassila.
Pasanen has seen Kläbo’s skiing for years and has also talked to Norwegian technology with Norwegian coaches.
According to Pasanen, Kläbon’s power and speed production capacity is ahead of the others.
– Kläbo can only produce maximum speeds with a few push and kick. He can make bypasses as he wants.
“Like a F1 car in everyday traffic”
Sprints see a lot of rods, crashes and bumps because the athletes are packed in a small space and the speeds are high.
Still, Kläbo has been the first to finish with a staggering percentage.
Kläbo has only one rod from the World Cup sprint, 2018 from Lillehammer. Then he was 11th in the final results.
It is not about luck, but the skill, Pasanen and Lassila emphasize.
Kläbo can ski in a tight space past others without any major problems due to his speed.
-He’s a bit like F1 in everyday traffic, Lassila throws.
According to Pasanen, Kläbon does not always have to go to tight intervals to try to bypass. According to the head coach, Kläbo perceives the situations and can react the right way during the race.
– Thanks to his pace, he can get around the others farther. Kläbo avoids crashes because she can look at any other ski group and does not go to places where you can rumble. He survives without bumps and the overtaking is successful. He has a gaming eye, Finland’s head coach sums up.
A distinctive youth training
The stunning pace of Kläbo can often blind the general public to his perhaps the most forgotten super -skill: skiing.
Kläbo has been practicing a lot of ski junior as a junior: for example, he has been said to have dropped the ski slope with skis.
– I haven’t heard this, but quite possible, Pasanen says.
Lassila says that Kläbo has done a lot of exercises in her youth “outside the box”.
Thanks to his technicality, Kläbo is in his own class downhill and bends. It is not always noticeable on TV pictures.
– When skiers come into bends and downhill, Kläbo shines with their body control, right positions and good technology, says Lassila.
Pasanen says that sprints are usually considered by skiers tactics before the race. However, no tactics seem to bite into Kläbo.
– It’s the same how others ski, Kläbo wins, Pasanen downloads.
However, there are sprint tracks where Kläbo cannot make use of his best qualities and can be hit. Or at least challenging.
Kläbo has been the most challenges for sprint tracks with a long run or a large hill before the final.
Such tracks are, for example, in Les Rousses, Ruka and Livigno. Many times in sprint races, the ends will come from bends and bills – where Kläbo makes a difference – but not in these.
When properly rushed with force, for example, a powerful French Richard Jouve has been able to win a clash.
– If the rest is long enough and straight and only requires raw work, so that skiing or technical know -how cannot make a difference, the Kläbo has been able to win a few times, Pasanen ponders.
In the videos below, you can see how Jouve, for example, has put Kläbo into the tight.
In Les Rousses, Jouve washed in the rest of Kläbo two years ago with a traditional.
– Jouve won in Les Rousses when he was beaten and he was forcibly passed, Pasanen describes.
On a slightly similar track, Jouve lost only Mono to Kläbo in Livigno in 2023.
Kalle Lassila opens up the above situations.
– When the best sensitivity and sharpness of the power output have disappeared from Kläbo and the tightening is taken by twisting, then such strong upper body capacity skiers may be able to hit the clam.
Kläbo has been in trouble for Ruka due to the track profile. At the end of the sprint, Ruka will come from the hill, so that KläBo’s ski tract is not the same.
Nevertheless, Kläbo has won Ruka several times.
Pasanen estimates that chanavat is the best in the world in raw power.
– The chanavat is even a little better than Kläbo, and also Jouve if he is in order.
However, chansavat has never managed to win Kläbo in the World Cup personal sprints. He was close to Goms.
Trondheim’s overwhelming pre -favorite
However, in the World Championships, Kläbo reaches its comfort zone.
The Trondheim Sprint Track is extremely familiar to the hometown and supports the strengths of KläBo.
There is no information on the long run, says Pasanen.
– The rest goes to her sprint and normal trips. It has a long fall and a tight curve. It has to get good speeds from the curves to the end.
“He is an absolute favorite for the sprint and requires a failure from Kläbo if he doesn’t win that race,” says Lassila.