– It’s a total outclass from Kristine Stavå’s Skistad here, exclaimed news’s expert commentator Torgeir Bjørn. Then he had just seen Skistad go into the best time in the prologue, with starting number five. At that point she was over six seconds ahead of Mathilde Myhrvold. In the WC, Skistad was beaten by four Swedes. Two of them, Emma Ribom and Linn Svahn, did not compete in Tuesday’s sprint. The other two, world champion Jonna Sundling, and bronze winner Maja Dahlqvist, simply had no chance against Skistad. Sundling was the best of them, in third place, 3.67 seconds behind Skistad, while Dahlqvist was a whopping 9.31 seconds behind. – Skistad has made an enormous prologue here, said Bjørn after Dahlqvist’s prologue. CLEARLY THE BEST: Kristine Stavå’s Skistad was fastest in the prologue. – A display from Skistad, which has taken a big step this season, and which is certainly a candidate for victory. The prologue is at least very uplifting, Bjørn continued. Skistad and the Swedish sprint stars have sent jabs at each other several times and the Norwegian 24-year-old did not hide what she thought after the WC sprint. – It is sad. It’s boring. I will work hard in the next two years to ensure that it does not happen in Trondheim. You just have to get better, quite simply, Skistad said at the time. Hedda Østberg Amundsen was second in Tuesday’s prologue, while World Cup leader Tiril Udnes Weng was fourth and thus increased her lead in the World Cup to 95 points down to Jessie Diggins. All twelve Norwegian runners progressed to the quarter-finals. Follow the men’s prologue here: Norwegian hegemony Several World Cup races this season have been characterized by few participants. Seven World Cup races for women have had less than 40 participants and, despite a total of twelve Norwegian women in Drammen, there were no more than 40 runners on the starting line. The sprint in Drammen has largely been a Norwegian playground. For the men, 14 out of 18 editions have been won by Norwegians, but Richard Jouve broke a streak of eight straight victories in the absence of Johannes Høsflot Klæbo due to illness last year. For the women, it has ended with victory in 11 out of 18 editions and since 2014, Maiken Caspersen Falla has won six out of seven city sprints in Drammen, with 2017 being the only exception. After the sprint was moved to Konnerud in 2020 and canceled due to the coronavirus in 2021, she crowned a great career with a victory in Drammen last year. Kristine Stavås Skistad is herself from Konnerud in Drammen and was fourth in the aforementioned sprint at Konnerud in 2020. It was Skistad’s best World Cup placing before this season, where she has had her real breakthrough with her first World Cup victory. It came in the French Les Rousses in January and she was also the one who was closest to the Swedish runners in the WC sprint in Planica, where it became a four-time Swedish ahead of Skistad and Tiril Udnes Weng. The two Norwegian runners have both reached the final in all classic sprints they have run in the World Cup and WC this season, four times each.
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