– It sucks, literally, says Emil Iversen to news as he enters the interview zone. Trønder lost seconds and positions for every pole vault during the year’s first hunting start, without either the coach or the commentators realizing what had happened. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB – I couldn’t find Emil, so I had to ask on the radio if anyone had brought it, says national team coach Eirik Myhr Nossum. – If he continues as he has started here, then one should wonder if he should continue in the Tour de Ski at all, was news’s Jann Post’s analysis during the course. But according to the protagonist himself, the race was not as bad as the result suggests. – Most afraid of dying After the finish, Iversen explains that an involuntary encounter with the snow is largely to blame for the weak result. – I was almost most afraid of dying there, because there were so many people coming at high speed from behind. – What happened? – I had a bit of aggressive lubrication today, so I sat in nice hockey over the balls, and then the skis chopped, while the guy moved forward, describes the trønder. According to Iversen, the body is nowhere near as critical as the 35th place would suggest. – I probably lost 20-30 places, so of course it was a bad start, he says, and shakes his head that the Tour de Ski is ruined. – It has gone through a thousand crunches. Iversen started 1.11 behind Klæbo, who therefore both led and won. At the finish he was 1.51 behind the winner. Tangerte Northug Teammate Klæbo’s victory means that he touches Petter Northug’s record for the number of stage wins in the Tour de Ski. Both now have 13. No men’s runners have more. – During the Tour de Ski, he can take a couple more, so that he takes the record on the women’s side as well. He is missing two, and that could quickly happen, predicted news’s Jann Post during the radio broadcast. Pål Golberg went a monster stage and ate second by second on the trønder in front, but he never quite got up the back. Klæbo nevertheless allowed himself to be stressed by his national teammate’s pace. – The hardest thing is to feel that they are eating up seconds everywhere, and that they are coming so quickly from behind. Today I heard that Pål had eaten ten seconds after three minutes, says Klæbo to news. It was only after three rounds that he felt he felt quite safe. – Then it stabilized, so then I had good control. In the end, there was a sprint duel between Federico Pellegrino and Pål Golberg for second place. Golberg won it.
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Emil Iversen “scared to die” when Johannes Høsflot Klæbo touched Petter Northug – news Sport – Sports news, results and broadcast schedule
