OBERSTDORF (Dagbladet): Emil Iversen love Oberstdorf-trails. 27-year-old took his third world cup competition in the sørtyske the city, where all has come in difficult weather conditions.
the Victory was still the last one of the smiling trønderen in this year’s Tour de Ski, despite the fact that he was now in third position in the standings.
– The other guys have gone two distanserenn and two light prologer, while I have been four high impact skirenn and should go sprinter again in the new year. It’s really just because I want to take care of my body a little more. Last year I was the one who went the most verdenscuprenn and no one knows that I was in Pyeongchang, except mom and dad, ” explains Iversen.
The main reason is enough, however, that Iversen desperately want to qualify for several distances in the winter world cup. He is a very strong candidate for both the sprint, sprintstafett, 15 km and the relay and after the winter’s results so far, he is currently inside of all the teams.
Nevertheless, it is required that the Meråker-the barley should go verdenscuprenn in Otepää about two and a half weeks, if he shall qualify to drømmedistansen 15 kilometers.
– All the runners to go 15 km classic at the world cup, must go there, confirms coach Eirik Myhr Nossum.
It believes The langrennsekspert Torgeir Bjørn is wrong. He tells Dagbladet that he seems Iversen already should have had confidence in that he was going to go the distance in the world CHAMPIONSHIP.
– He has a second in the 15 km classic in Ruka, so I will say that he has already completed a result that suggests that he should go 15 classic in the world cup. If you are on the podium in the exercise which shall be in the world cup, and not too many people there, so I think Emil Iversen could get the go-ahead for it in fact, says Bear.
SPECIFIC: Coach Eirik Myhr Nossum doesn’t shy from the plan and says that Iversen must display the form in Otepää. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix Show more Had chosen different
On the question of whether it had been different if he had already been given the go-ahead to 15 km in the world cup, the answer trønderen that he probably had priority different.
Then I had probably completed the Tour de Ski. It is because of the competition in Otepää I’m going home, admits Iversen.
“We must confirm the good form that weekend, but I think that I have added in some great applications already,” he continues.
Nossum don’t want to share out some place on the distanseløpene in the world cup so far.
– Aberet to be a Norwegian is that you have to confirm the form over time, says Nossum.
as of now I’m eligible, but there are a few weeks left, so we’ll count up the time, but I located a good way and shows that I have mastered it here, ” says a confident Iversen.
Critical to the organizer after the victory: – they Were there in all? Good form
Here follows a plan he and Nossum la all the way back to June. Where had they planned that Iversen would win the race in Oberstdorf and then jump off. The plan was followed to the letter.
– We decided it in June. If things work according to plan, so follow the plan. If not, Emil had been as sharp as he is now, so it may be that he still had out. We had to see the way how things went, it was not so that no matter how he went he was home, ” explains Nossum.
Iversen can get the result of John Høsflot Klæbo to jump off the tour before it is eventually. Thus, the risk of Norway to send home their two best placed in the gc before the race is over.
To Dagbladet, says Eirik Myhr Nossum that the Tour de Ski is used as a part of the run up to the world cup in Seefeld in February.
– Yes, it is a little bit of both there. It’s a bit like Petter made in many years, used the Tour de Ski or parts of the Tour de Ski as part of the mesterskapsoppladninga. And it is the jo.
There is something Torgeir Bjørn ask themselves critical to the.
I understand that the world cup is hung the highest, but I believe that it is possible to combine to be absolutely the top in Tour de Ski and in the championship. Sergey Ustjugov showed it in 2017 and Dario Cologna has shown that, Justyna Kowalczyk and Therese Johaug has also shown it, ” says Bear,
I haven’t got any full flap in the championship yet and when is this decision taken only on the basis of it. I think people realize and is perfectly fine, ” says Iversen himself.
Iversen with a strong victory. This provides Klæbo a difficult dilemma
