A super performance like Kerttu Niskanen ignited the American star – Jessie Diggins saw a “wildly unfair” situation | Sport

Jessie Diggins was surprisingly quiet in the New Year’s Eve special race at the Tour de Ski. Diggins explained the day’s events to an American skiing website.

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American star Jessie Diggins only finished sixth on New Year’s Eve, when an exceptional race was contested in the Tour de Ski, the number one event of the Cross-Country World Cup.

The skiers measured each other in the 20-kilometer freestyle skiing intermediate start competition. The race was held only on one track and along a route in the mountain scenery of the Dolomites in Toblach, Italy.

Diggins leads the race Tour before New Year’s Day, but the difference Kerttu To the neck condensed to 22 seconds. Norwegians too Astrid A mole Slind and Therese Johaug approached Diggins.

Slind and Johaug were able to benefit from skiing in a group on the downhill part of the second half of the race. Niskanen, on the other hand, skied alone. For example, the head coach of Finland Teemu Badass lamented Niskanen’s bad luck in an interview with after the competition.

– The bad luck of “Kepa” makes me sad. He had to come all the way and the long downhill alone, while all the others from the top five were allowed to come in quite large groups. It really helps when going downhill. It could have been possible to get more out of it, even to fight for the win, but that is also good, Pasanen stated.

According to Pasanen, it was really bad luck, because you can’t change the starting order, and Niskanen just didn’t have good backs in front.

– Nothing can be done about it. Of course, if we left every three minutes, but then the race would last all day, he laughed.

Diggins also noticed the bad luck of some competitors. He thanked to the Fasterskier site teammates Julia Kern help during the race.

– Without him it would have been really difficult, because either you’re lucky to get to ski with someone or you’re not. It’s skiing. It’s not fair. This sport is not fair. Today was a wildly unfair route. Either people pulled on the train and in big groups. There were huge differences. Some had to ski alone, Diggins described.

He valued highly Kerttu My neck athletes who have done such a super performance.

– Honestly, huge kudos to those who had to ski alone. We saw a really impressive result from them because it was incredibly tough.

The 33-year-old Diggins had not skied a 20-kilometer, one-lap race like New Year’s Eve. Diggins described the competition as really cool, but also really tough.

– I basically pulled as hard as I could and tried to hang on. It was really hard because this was not a normal route. There was basically no rest here, Diggins stated.