Kerttu Niskanen, upset about his mistake in the battle for victory, Jasmi Joensuu admitted his “stunt trick” – see the exciting moments | Sport

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Kerttu Niskanen was second in the second race of the Tour de Ski in Toblach, when Italy competed in a traditional skiing 15 km co-start race.

Niskanen was involved in the winning battle of seven athletes until the end. American Jessie Diggins rushed to victory like yesterday’s Saturday sprint and improved his position at the top of the Tour. Niskanen took second place in the overall battle of the Tour.

Norwegian Astrid A mole Slind was third before his country Heidi Weng. Returned to ski competitions this season Therese Johaug was only left sixth in the race.

Krista Pärmäkoski and Johanna Matintalo were also involved in the top fight for a long time. Pärmäkoski was tenth and Matintalo eleventh.

According to Kerttu Niskanen, the day’s race was not easy to ski.

– It was a stressful course to ski with a group. Lots of push-ups. Two climbs. There is an unbridled pees benefit with easy cuts. It felt like everyone somehow managed to hit the steep climbs, Niskanen described.

He was upset about his choice of tactics at the end.

– The winner was tough today. He could hit hard to the end. It left me feeling sad. I saw Slind as the toughest challenger. I took his dick. Diggins unexpectedly came by from the right, and I fell behind Slindi. It didn’t go the way I wanted, Niskanen said.

However, Niskanen was not completely disappointed with the second place, but stated that he was still second in the end.

– I had the tactic to come second to the finish line and win from that. I finished third and finished second, Niskanen said.

Niskanen is now 38 seconds behind Diggins in the overall standings. Slind and Weng are 31 seconds behind the Finn. Therese Johaug is 1 minute and 14 seconds behind Diggins. Niskanen is also 36 seconds in the wilderness.

He didn’t start thinking about the overall situation yet, because there are still five races left in the Tour.

– Success in each race and then we’ll look at the overall situation later. There are still so many races left. The situation is definitely alive, Niskanen described.

When do you lock in the position you want to achieve?

– Probably in Alpe Cermis and 300 meters before the finish line, Niskanen added, referring to the final climb.

Yellow card for Joensuu: “I did outrageously”

On Saturday, in the sprint, he took his first career podium place in the World Cup Jasmine Joensuu was the 16th He took out a caution in the Tour’s sprint points battle when he wedged the Swiss Nadine Fähndrich in front of. Joensuu is now leading the Tour’s sprint race.

– I saw that I had a damn slippery ski. I passed so easily on the downhill. I thought, why not take a little break. I did it grossly. I went off my skis. It was my fault. I thought I was further ahead, Joensuu summarized the situation.

According to Joensuu, Fähndrich was not sorry about the situation after the race.

– We already talked here that there is nothing wrong, Joensuu said.

Joensuu was able to start from second place after the first podium finish of his career in the sprint race yesterday.

– Had to collect. Yesterday was an emotional day. It was great to go skiing in such settings, Joensuu described his experiences.

For Pärmäkoski and Matintalo, the Norwegians’ pace is too much

Those who were in the lead at the beginning of the race Krista Pärmäkoski and Johanna Matintalo explained the progress of the competition with relatively the same words.

– Tough trip. In the beginning, I stayed quite a long time when I had to leave the middle lane. There wasn’t really any way to make passes and when the place came, there was a pretty hard blow to it, Pärmäkoski stated.

– On the second lap, when Astrid (Öyre Slind) and Therese (Johaug) started to push, I tried to join them. Then I died to it, and after that I had to level up a bit. The end is fine. It wasn’t bad, but I’m not entirely satisfied.

Johanna Matintalo described her race as stressful, because she had to start with a big starting number and pass slower ones.

– There was still so much to do with my own condition during the early season that I didn’t take such a first-round bump so well. When in the third round the top group started to tighten, Krista and I fell, Matintalo said.

– The end was such a fight to the finish line, but I’m satisfied, the body worked well as a whole and things are going in the right direction.

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