After a slightly sluggish start with a sixth place in the världscupspremiären in Ruka on november 24 and a second-place finish in Lillehammer, norway, in the week after the show Stina Nilsson all back.
When the Swedish sprintstjärnan won in Davos in the middle of december, it was the beginning of a rarely seen utskåpning where the other racers appear as extras.
Nilsson won, admittedly, not the prologue in Toblach but after it has the OLYMPIC champion won it all, the prologue, quarter – and semi-finals and, not least, the finals in quite superior style.
won the Nilsson in Toblach with the whole three seconds ahead of Ida Ingemarsdotter. In the Val Müstair was the runner-up, american Sophie Caldwell, beaten with 2,27 seconds.
the Question is who can stop the Stina?
– It is surely a different English, ” says landslagschefen Rikard Grip with a laugh. We have a very strong team, but there are many other talented riders who want to win.
Stina Nilsson have won four straight sprint, the suite, she launched 18 February 2017 in Otepää, and followed that up with victories in Drammen march 8, Québec, march 17 and Ruka 24 november.
the Suite ended 2 december 2017, then the hemmafavoriten Majken Caspersen Falla took home the sprint in Lillehammer, norway, in a race where Nilsson finished fifth.
the Norwegian, who won the 2014 OLYMPIC games and the world CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2017, missed the podium in all five of the sprint events and she is facing for the first time since 2013, the miss the podium for the sixth time in a row.
the Grip does not want to believe that Stina Nilsson is in the form of early, the world CUP-the sprint is decided on 21 February.
– It should not be a worry, she is where she should be according to the training plan. You’ll probably be able to hustle a bit to on it, it feels absolutely not worrying, ” says Grip.
the Track is drawn in the middle of Dresden and is settled next to the river Elbe.
” Stina has been very friendly and kind and made three very good races. But now it’s about a stadssprint with some other conditions.
twice with Hanna Falk as a runner-up and Maja Dahlqvist as the runner up, Anna Dyvik finished fifth and Stina Nilsson of the sixth.
Hanna and Maja have started this season good, it looks positively out on their behalf also.
Falk, Dahlqvist and Nilsson are at the starting line this year also, now along with Ida Ingemarsdotter, Jonna Sundling and Evelina Settlin.
All six riders have been in the final in any of the season’s five fristilssprintar. Sprinttotalen led by Stina Nilsson, while Ida Ingemarsdotter is four and Maja Dahlqvist fifth.
it is Notable that no Norwegian female sprint skier yet has managed to snatch for himself a place on the podium.
expectations are significantly lower. In last year’s Emil Jönsson, who finished in the national team before this season, fifth.
” I hope that we shall have three, four guys who go on from the prologue. Martin Bergström qualified well and made it to the Davos, he did it well and made it to the semi-final of the Scandinavian cup at the weekend, ” says Grip.
On Sunday determined lagsprinten in which Sweden set up with two teams which means that only four of the riders get the chance.
“who get to go we decide after Saturday’s sprint,” says Grip.
the Guide: the world Ski CHAMPIONSHIPS in Seefeld starts 20 February
