The Tour de Ski will see an exceptional race after one intermission day. The route is considered wonderful for fitness skiers, but competitive skiers disagree from their own point of view.
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Kimmo Porttila
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The best man in Finland on the second day of the Tour de Ski in the 15 kilometer co-start race was Niko Anttola. The 21-year-old junior world champion and World Championship silver medalist was 19th.
– It was a stressful race, but somehow I was able to move up and defend my place. The first couple of rounds were a battle for positions. It calmed down when the group broke up, Anttola described.
– In the last lap, we hit the ascent pretty hard. I was able to answer it quite moderately. I didn’t quite stay in the front group, but in itself I’m quite satisfied. A nice ski race.
The Tour de Ski continues on Tuesday after one intermission day with a really special competition format: 20 kilometers of free skiing as an intermediate start race. The race is skied through only one loop, and not normally several laps.
The competition route runs through the beautiful mountain scenery of the Dolomites. A Finnish director has been filmed in the same scenery Renny Harlin’s the legendary Cliffhanger movie (from 1993) and even scenes from the Star Wars movies.
The fact surprised the young Finnish ski hopefuls born in the early 2000s on Sunday. For example Nile For Moilasen and Jasmin On a roll information about movies came as a new thing.
– I’ll have to watch, Jasmin Kähärä threw.
Ylen editor Elastic Portilla for a fitness skier, Tuesday’s route is wonderful and a dream, but according to the competitive skiers interviewed by Porttila, the situation is not the same for them.
– A brutal race is coming. It will be a hard day, says Anttola.
Compared to fitness skiers, what makes the route brutal, according to Anttola, is that there is a gentle ascent for ten kilometers and a gentle descent for ten kilometers.
– In practice, there is no rest at all. That makes it quite heavy, Anttola opened.
Niilo Moilanen is looking forward to the competition.
– We went to inspect that route. It’s certainly the nicest race route I’ve ever been able to ski in terms of the environment, Moilanen described.
Of course, like Anttola, he also expects a fierce competition.
– It will definitely be a tough trip, even if there will be no ascent. You go up and you come down, but you have to ski all the time. You have to kick all the time.
Arsi Ruuskanen ponders what kind of tactics the skiers use to start an extraordinary race.
– Surely some sprint type is tough on the downhill section. The distance men will certainly lock hard up, Ruuskanen underlines the dichotomy of the route.
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