MERÅKER (Dagbladet): It is freezing in NM-the village, and many of the runners vying for a world cup place had been in use for the heat and love when it go to the about the possibility to get go for world cup gold in Seefeld is about a few small weeks.
do Not at least apply it for Saturday’s NM-distance, tremil with skibytte.
NM-tremila is the first and only race at the distance before the world cup-gullene be awarded Saturday, 23. February. Thus it becomes extremely important to perform in NM whether one should have hope to get to go the world cup.
NM-tremila has never been so critical as it is in the year with the thought of a championship, ” says coach Eirik Myhr Nossum to the Newspaper.
Klæbo dropper NM-sprint Not american withdrawal
Right now, there are at least six runners who all can rightly say that they will be medaljekandidater on the distance of Seefeld. In addition, will enough both Hans Christer Holund and Chris Jespersen would like to have a word with in the team.
But any american withdrawal in Meråker Saturday, so easily have been talking about, it is not.
– No, it is not. I bind me not so much as that I say it, but what I can say, is that you win here in NM, so you have a good case, smiles Nossum.
Rarely evenly
Apart from the fact that John Høsflot Klæbo both go sprint and lagsprinten, there are really very few runners who can feel one hundred percent confident of world cup place at some distance.
MUST SCRAP MANY: Coach Eirik Myhr Nossum has sparingly with a world cup place and knows he must disappoint many already Saturday, when the world cup-the withdrawal is done during the NM in Meråker. Photo: Bjørn Langsem Show more
Yes, it will be almost a scandal about the not Emil Iversen the get go the classic femtenkilometeren, but Iversen has not gone forth since the Tour de Ski, and has some question marks behind his name.
What is certain, is that it has rarely been so evenly about the positions, at all distances, just weeks before a world cup.
– It is hard enough to take out a tolvmannstropp, and when we should cut it down to four runners per race, then it is even more difficult, ” says Nossum.
Will disappoint many
Nossum is the first time he shall be liable to the skaters for a squad selection that is going to have to give disappointed and perhaps even pissed off athletes.
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at the same time, it is a situation general manager has prepared itself for ever since he took over the team in may.
– I started the first of our collection to say that I hope I can disappoint as many people as possible in the world cup, it means that we have gone fast on the skis before the world cup. I stand for what I said then, and we begin to approach it that I have to disappoint quite a number, ” he says, and continues:
– There is no any kind of doubt that I on every distance is going to choose people who either have a podium finish in the distance, or have been very, very close.
– this Is the densest outlet for very long?
– Yes, and especially on the tremila we can probably say that there has never been smoother, he says.
Increased pressure
And then we are back at where we started this case, Saturday’s NM-tremil on Grova skistadion in Meråker. After the race is more potential world cup-medaljører left in the cold as is over Trøndelag this week.
the Pressure before NM-tremila is so tough that even the most seasoned know a little about it. Also the general brands that excitement among his students increases.
– Yes, I notice it, and I think it is a bit special this year, since we only have the one tremila before the world cup. I see how they work mentally on the important launders, and I know that it costs a little bit. There I see. But fanken, if you can not tolerate NM-the pressure, then you have nothing in the world to do, ” says general manager of the Newspaper.
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