MERÅKER (Dagbladet): Kristine Stavås Skistad smiled slyly as she walked out of the target area on the Grova skistadion after NM-silver on the sprint.
The advance she had received information that a finaleplass in NM was enough to secure the world cup ticket to Seefeld, and with the second place, there was no longer any doubt that junioren get the chance in the most prestigious company when the world cup sprint going on Thursday 21. February.
But there is no junior with hat in hand that put him on the plane.
I think that I have more opportunities there than I had here, so if I get charged up good, then can great things happen, ” says Stavås Skistad to the Newspaper.
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With the great things she speaks not about to reach a finale, or to acquire valuable experience for later championships.
Kristine Stavås Skistad talking about to take world CHAMPIONSHIP gold medals.
– Yes, I think I can win. I do not travel to the world cup I do not think that I can win, then some other journey, ” says the offensive junioren.
the Offensive, she was in the fall also. After a poor season last year, she put the world cup schedule before any of us had heard her name. Pallplassen in sesongåpningen on Tuesday was just the start of the world cup adventure.
I was planning this in the fall, for I knew that I had possibilities. So I got confirmed at Beitostølen and in Lillehammer that it happens, in fact, says Stavås.
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It is no news that it is many years since the world cup-places on the damesprinten has been so little predictable as in years.
Sprint is the only distance for which Norway has a friplass on in the world cup, as Maiken Caspersen Falla is the only reigning individual world champion from Norway in Seefeld.
In the herreklassen won’t Norway a few individual gold, while Marit Bjørgen won three individual gold medals in Lahti, and will not use friplassen its on the distances.
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In addition to the Fall, there are four available VM slots on the damesprinten in the world cup.
After Friday’s NM-sprint is the only one free space left. Tvillingsøstrene Lotta and Tiril Udnes Weng goes world cup-the sprint for Norway in Seefeld after the first – and fourth place in NM.
Skistad Stavås is ready, while the last place standing between Mari Eide, Ane Appelkvist Stenseth and Kathrine Rolsted Harsem.
Looking towards the younger runners
Mr. fell, in his first semi-final for the year, Stenseth finishing last in the final, while Harsem confirms to Dagbladet that the desire to go the world cup is there for the first time in years.
23 year old Stenseth can be given priority because she represents the future of the Norwegian damesprint.
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– She is a very exciting name, and it is the kind we must focus on also. We need to look a bit forward also, and we have said that we are not satisfied with the general condition in the sprint on the damesida, so it could be a grip to look a little down in the årsklassene and pick up some young and promising, ” says the coach Vidar Løfshus to the Newspaper.
Made to be taken after Lahti
The last place is likely to be shared out after verdenscupsprinten in Lahti next weekend, without that coach Ole Morten Iversen will confirm it with the Newspaper.
The formal withdrawal of the entire squad happens after the launders Saturday, while the who goes what distances does not become formal until two days before the launders in the world cup.
But I think it begins to crystallize itself a withdrawal in both distance and sprint. It is never easy, but we’ll think a little and consider what we shall say in the morning, Iversen says to Dagbladet.
We take out sprintlaget for Lahti, but if you’ve studied the standings a bit, so you may not need to ask as many questions about who will go, ” laughs the general.
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