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Cross-Country Skiing at the FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships 2017


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1 hour ago, dcro said:

Lol, so glad that I decided to pay zero attention to this race. :d

 

Actually it was a pretty compact race, 10 skiers were in a pack until the very end. Just on the last 2-3 climbs team Norge hit the gas.

 

Ughhh, i wanted Heidi to win an individual gold, damn you Bjorgen. :mad:

 

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Boring 48k, very exciting last 2 kilometer :d 

 

Alex Harvey takes the gold :hyper:

 

Heikkinen with bronze after nearly dying to keep with Sundby, Harvey and Ustiugov on the final climb :bowdown:

 

Sundby with yet another choke :lol:

 

4th place for Musgrave :clap:

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What a fishy result again. The best thing about the race was the story about the russian guy who just got to Lahti for this race by train yesterday. :clap:

The race itself was the expected snoozefest and it became clear again that this event has to die as soon as possible.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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FIS NORDIC SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

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Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle
Final Results

 

CAN.gif HARVEY Alex
1:46:28.9

 

RUS.gif USTIUGOV Sergey
1:46:29.5

 

FIN.gif HEIKKINEN Matti
1:46:30.3
 

Canada's Alex Harvey is 50 km World Champion

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Canada's Alex Harvey won the men's 50 km free technique mass start competition to end the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

 

Harvey won team sprint gold in the 2011 Oslo World Championships with teammate Devon Kershaw but this was his first individual gold medal.  In the silver medal position was Russia's Sergey Ustiugov just +0.6 seconds behind.  He now ties Bjorn Daehlie and Petter Northug as the only male athletes to win 5 medals at one Championship.  In the bronze medal position to the thrill of the home crowd was Finland's Matti Heikkinen +1.4 seconds back of Harvey.  

 

Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby over the final kilometer did what he could to narrow the field down but he was unable to get away from Harvey and Ustiugov.  Heikkinen was slightly gapped but came back to the leading three in the stadium and on the same corner where he went down in the men's relay he overtook Sundby for the bronze medal position. Britain's Andrew Musgrave also overtook Sundby on the homestretch to take 4th place, a best ever finish for a British cross-country skier.

 

 

Full Results Here

 

Final Medal Standing Here

 

Alex Harvey

50km Mass Start Freestyle 2017 World Champion

 

 

Race Replay

 

 

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