Johannes Hösflot’s brutal knockout loss to Kläbo – see his rival’s wild reaction: “Crazy race” | Sport

The Tour de Ski saw a turn in the men’s battle for victory, when Norway’s Harald Östberg Amundsen skied to an overwhelming victory. He was number one in the third race of the tour, when skiing 20 kilometers in freestyle skiing.

Amundsen shrank John Hösflot Kläbon overall lead to 16 seconds. He wildly fanned his victory. Kläbo lost to Amundsen by 46.4 seconds and was fifth in the race.

– Damn… What a crazy race! This was incredibly hard, Amundsen told Norway’s Viaplay.

Kläbo dominated the first two Tour races of this season, the freestyle sprint and the 15km co-start race on the traditional.

– This ski race suits me the worst in the whole world, Kläbo lamented to NRK.

He praised his fiercest competitor. It was already predicted that the superstar Kläbo from Tour and Amundsen, who took the overall World Cup victory from Kläbo last season, would be a duo. Amundsen also won the Tour last season when Kläbo was ill.

– Today it worked for Harald. He has been fast and strong. That is impressive, Kläbo described his competitor’s bet of the day.

A tough special race for Anttola

The men were the first to climb the Tour de Ski in Toblach, a truly exceptional competition format. The route only went along one Lenk through the mountain scenery of the Dolomites.

Finland’s best had reached 24th place Niko Anttola. He missed the lead by one minute and 37.9 seconds.

– Didn’t let go easily, Anttola summed up the race and the route.

According to Anttola, there wasn’t a single difficult spot on the track.

– I had to work all the time and it was hard. All the way down, you had to press on. It wasn’t easy, Anttola said.

According to Anttola, the race largely succeeded according to expectations.

– You always hope for more. Today was such a race.

Would you like more stages like this for cross-country skiing?

– It was interesting in itself. Why not, Anttola answered.

An interesting sight in the goal area

The finish area of ​​Toblach had an interesting sight after the race, when many skiers came to the finish line in groups of several skiers, even though the starting intervals were, as usual, every 30 seconds.

It wasn’t Arsi Ruuskanen and Lauri Vuorinen by chance. The race was basically run ten kilometers up and ten kilometers down.

– It was a long way up. Half a minute’s departure time is not terrible. If you can ski as a duo, a single skier is picked up reasonably quickly, Ruuskanen described.

– When going up, the differences were of course clear. The tougher ones caught up. When coming down, it should be briskly better to be able to drop the others. That’s probably why we’ll be in groups.

Unlike Anttola, Vuorinen and Ruuskanen said that the race was easier than expected.

– It was a steady pace. Had to have a good leg up. Even down there, there was work all the time. I got to ski in a group of three, so it was easy to go down, Ruuskanen said.

Vuorinen was on the same lines.

– Steady work on the hill all the time. There were friends on the downhill. There was a shift in it. It made it incredibly easy. The pace improved. In Pees, you could really have a little fun. Even though there is a bit of laborious going down, it worked well on the tide.

Moilanen was not afraid of dropping out of the Tour

The last Finn was better known as a sprinter Niilo Moilanen. He said that he had to press work all the time. The race was not the toughest of his life, but it was still a tough journey.

There is a clause in the rules of the Tour that you should not miss too much of the lead. Otherwise, there is a risk of being dropped from the tour. The competitor’s time must not be 20 percent slower than the winner’s time in the intermediate race.

Moilanen was 5 minutes and 17.9 seconds behind Amundsen, so this time the risk of relegation was still far away.

– I couldn’t bear to think about it. I became aware of the existence of that section, but I set out to do my own race, Moilanen said.

Moilanen was 82nd in the final results. Only two Hungarians, two Australians, two Latvians, two Ukrainians and one Thai skier remained behind.

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