Lucas Chanavat and 11 others would have been disqualified after the second Tour race, but the FIS pardoned them.
Roope Visuri,
Laura Arffman
TOBLACH.
Perttu Hyvärinen the victory rightly grabbed the headlines in Finland on New Year’s Eve, but internationally the Tour de Ski was buzzing anyway.
The international skiing federation FIS stretched its rules at the end of Sunday’s normal trip. According to the rules, the men’s time cannot be more than 15 percent slower than the winner’s.
According to the rules, 12 male and two female skiers should have been discus after Saturday. However, this did not happen. The competition jury allowed them to continue in the Tour.
Among those pardoned was, for example, France on Friday Lucas Chanavat. He had still won the free sprint held as the opening race at the Tour on Friday, but he completely froze the next day in the traditional ten.
When Urheilu was waiting for Perttu Hyväri to go to the Finnish service truck and a possible Finnish party, a thoughtful Chanavat came to meet him. He was going to find out his destiny.
Moments later, he returned happily back to the French maintenance. Chanavat had received the green light. Chanavat spoke with satisfaction to Urheilu.
– I got corona at Christmas and had to come directly here (without the preparatory camp). The race took a toll, Chanavat described.
Chanavat said he was crossing his fingers for the New Year’s Day chase, but the result didn’t improve much. Chanavat left the track three minutes and 39 seconds behind the leader. After Sunday’s chase, the gap stretched to almost 12 minutes and 48 seconds.
Chanavat is in 78th place overall, while there are only 79 skiers participating.
Competition manager of the International Ski Federation Michal Lamplot explained to Urheilu after Sunday’s pursuit that the percentage rule does not apply in pursuit races. The Tour will only be disqualified after the joint start races if the athlete is overtaken in a round.
Lamplot explained the stretching of the percentage rule by the fact that there have been a lot of absences even before and during the Tour. They wanted the athletes to still be able to continue the race.
Lamplot brought up Kazakhstan, for example, whose entire team of four athletes would have had to leave the Tour after the second day with normal rules.
According to the FIS rules, it is possible to deviate from the percentage rule in special situations.
The most famous absentees from the men’s games are probably the Norwegian stars Johannes Hösflot Kläbo, Simen Hegstad Krüger and Finland Iivo Niskanen. They dropped out due to illness.
Urheilu follows the Tour de Ski in this article.