– This is a hopeless situation to be in, exclaimed news commentator Jann Post midway through the 20 kilometer ski change on Saturday. At this time, Margrethe Bergane was bent over her skates and fiddling with the bindings in the ski stall at Granåsen Stadium. GREAT TALENT: Margrethe Bergane struggled with the binding. Photo: Ulf Palm/TT / NTB She stood there for a full 1 minute and 36 seconds before she finally got the shoe into the binding. – Margrethe is in tears here. Bergane’s run is ruined now, said Jann Post. Weng went too far – podium saved However, it wasn’t just Bergane who got into trouble during the 20-kilometer run. When Heidi Weng came in to change skis, she went a couple of meters too far and had to turn around to find the ski booth marked with her start number. Thus she lost several valuable seconds. Heidi Weng still managed to enter a strong third place, behind the winner Ebba Andersson and Jessie Diggins. Weng smiled broadly when she was asked by news about the incident. – I was about to go wrong. I thought I should just leave a few extra seconds there, she says and adds: – I was in my own world. It was a bit of luck – I could have taken any ski there. There were challenging conditions at times during the sprint on Friday, but on Saturday the weather in Trondheim really took a turn for the worse. It rained heavily and the tracks were occasionally icy. Many struggled with the party in the Granåsen slopes. Norwegian star broke Among them was last year’s comet Anne Kjersti Kalvå. – Anne Kjersti had problems getting up the hill. She had real problems with the party, said news expert Anders Aukland during the race. GA SEG: Anne Kjersti Kalvå had to break the 20 kilometer distance. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB Even before the change of skis, Kalvå went off the track and broke the race. – AK has stood down. AK has stood down, you could hear on the national cross-country team’s radio. It was a marked Kalvå who met news after the race. – Nothing works. I can’t take it in properly. I don’t like how my body works now. Then there was no point in pushing. I have a bad feeling, and have to come up with something smart for Christmas, says the 31-year-old, who had a great season last year. – We saw you had a few misses. How was the skiing? – No, I had good skis. I just can’t ski well, she replies. 12 Norwegian ladies took part in the distance, which is new to the program in next year’s WC. In the past, the women have walked 15 kilometres, while the men have walked 30 kilometres, but during the WC in just over a year, both women and men will walk 20 kilometres. The men will go out in the same exercise at 13.15. On Sunday, both classes compete in the 10 kilometer classic.
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