– I am quite disappointed with the choice I made, says Kristine Stavås Skistad to Viaplay after the race. Because in the downhill before the race during the classic sprint in Canmore, Skistad was on the skis of the Swedish duo Jonna Sundling and Linn Svahn. She should have stayed in those ridges, believes news’s cross-country expert Fredrik Aukland, and points out that Skistad got up too early. – Skistad made a real tactical blunder there. She had an enormous advantage from coming from behind, says Aukland and continues: – But then she went out once and lost the slide, she should have just stood and waited like she did in the semi-final. Was a little too impatient there, Skistad. Self-critical Skistad agrees with that, and is herself critical of the choice she made. In a conversation with national team coach Stig Rune Kveen after the finish, they exchanged the following words: – I had a much higher speed. That’s why I should have stood up there, says Skistad to the coach. – I saw it, he replies. Kristine Stavås Skistad believes she missed the tactics during today’s classic sprint in Canmore. Photo: Eibner-Pressefoto/Memmler/DPA / NTB Above Viaplay elaborated on the 25-year-old. – I was completely in there. Obviously I should just stay back. I felt it was going to be a sprint showdown, such a shame that it was ruined in that way – You feel you had a chance then? – Yes, at least you would have been part of the sprint, she says. Kristine Stavå’s Skistad still finished second behind Linn Svahn during the classic sprint in Canmore. Jonna Sundling was third. Got revenge after blow kiss Today’s winner used the opportunity to send a jab back at her Norwegian rival after Skistad sent a blow kiss to the Swedes after she won the skating sprint on Saturday. Svahn, for his part, chose to respond with two back kisses. – There will also be a bit of a circus. I’m not the one who likes to hit someone below the belt, says Svahn to Swedish Expressen. She continues: – It can boil over for me too. Skistad tells the Swedish newspaper that she has nothing against Svahn imitating her. – Who made the best gesture, you or Linn? – I’m completely crazy about that. It’s nothing I care about, says Skistad further to Expressen. Of the other Norwegians, all the cross-country runners on the women’s side progressed to the quarter-finals in Tuesday’s classic sprint, with the exception of Lotta Udnes Weng. Only Skistad and Heidi Weng advanced to the semi-finals. Weng smoked out in his semi-final heat.
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