Kaisa Mäkäräinen will get her crystal ball again eight years ago, when Mäkäräinen and Tora Berger share the victory of the overall competition with Olga Zaitseva’s doping offense.
The last weekend of the Sports Studio this season will closely follow the World Cup in Alpine Skiing, Biathlon and Downhill Skiing and go through the highlights of the season.
The World Biathlon season culminates this week in Oslo. The victory of the men’s overall competition has already been secured by France Quentin Fillon Maillet, but the women’s winner is open. Norwegian Marte Ölsbu Röiseland leads Sweden by 72 points before the last three races of the season Elvira Öberg. Her sister Hanna Öberg is third and 189 points behind Röiseland.
Originally, Mäkäräinen won eight years ago at Holmenkollen, took the overall competition and got a crystal ball, but due to the annulment of Zaitseva’s results, the Norwegian Tora Berger rose past Mäkäräinen. In December, the International Biathlon Association (IBU) decided that Mäkäräinen and Zaitseva would share the victory in the overall competition.
The festivities will now be held on Friday after the women’s quick race. The women’s sprint and the subsequent award ceremony will be shown live on TV2 and Areena from 2:10 p.m. The women’s sprint and festivities were supposed to be as early as Thursday, but bad weather postponed them to the Friday before the men’s sprint.
The finals of the Alpine Skiing World Cup will also culminate this weekend. On Saturday, it will be the men’s slalom and women’s slalom. On Sunday, there will be competitions in men’s slalom and women’s grand slalom.
The crystal balls of Saturday’s species have already settled, but there’s plenty to do on Sunday. Swedish Sara Hector leads the women’s slalom cup with just five points ahead of France Tessa Worley.
Sweden’s latest cup win in 2016 is in women’s slalom, which was number one Frida Hansdotter. Men’s Latest Cup Award 2012 for Slalom From Andre Myhrer.
The women’s grand slalom cup has only been won by Swedes in the past Anja Pärsonthree times in 2003, 2004 and 2006. At that time, Pärson’s direct ruined Tanja Poutiainen winning in 2005.
In the World Jumping Cup, the men’s overall victory will continue to be won by Japan Ryoyu Kobayashin and Germany Karl Geigerin between. Kobayashi departs Oberstdorf 58 points ahead of Geiger.
The men’s world cup of ski jumping ends next week at Planica.
Outside of the competition broadcasts, the Sports Studio also looks towards the future. Starting at 3:10 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a discussion about what top sports could look like in 2080.
The World Cross Country Cup was due to culminate this weekend in Tyumen, Russia, but the International Ski Federation (FIS) canceled the races after Russia invaded Ukraine. No replacement organizer was found for the races, so the World Ski Cup ended last weekend in Falun.
In Finland, the skiing competition season will culminate on ‘s canals in the next two weeks: In a week’s time, Ruka will compete in the Finnish Cup and the following weekend in Rovaniemi at the Finnish Championships.