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Samir Azzimani :MAR got 315 and 314 points at competitions in Dvorista :BIH this weekend...getting closer to the limit. 

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What a World Cup win for young Annamarija Lampic :SLO at the classic sprint in Pyeongchang, she destroyed everyone :bowdown:

 

Kowalczyk has managed to make her style even uglier again and finished 4th, a few seconds away from her first win since the Olympics :p 

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12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What a World Cup win for young Annamarija Lampic :SLO at the classic sprint in Pyeongchang, she destroyed everyone :bowdown:

 

Kowalczyk has managed to make her style even uglier again and finished 4th, a few seconds away from her first win since the Olympics :p 

 

I'd take that with a pinch of salt seeing that someone like Alisa Zhambalova made the final. Her only other WC top 30 in sprint came at the limited field of Tour de Ski. :p

 

Also an Australian scored WC points. :d

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Just now, dcro said:

 

I'd take that with a pinch of salt seeing that someone like Alisa Zhambalova made the final. Her only other WC top 30 in sprint came at the limited field of Tour de Ski. :p

 

Also an Australian scored WC points. :d

 

Sure, all top Scandinavians (among others) are at home preparing for Lahti :p 

 

But still, there were some decent names there and Lampic just destroyed them. It might give her the confidence for the real breakthrough (which is already coming this season because she's doing really well :d ). 

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Lampic & Retivykh notch first World Cup wins in PyeongChang

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It was a day of firsts in PyeongChang, Korea the site of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.   Day's sprint competitions marked the first time that South Korea has ever hosted an FIS Cross-Country World Cup event.  Along with that first we had 4 of the 6 athlete who made it to the podium today there for the first time.  As well the two winners, Anamarija Lampic of Slovenia and Gleb Retivykh of Russian were first time winners.  

 

Lampic went head to head with Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk on the final climb and was able to create a gap and held it all the way to the finish.  Silje Oeyre Slind of Norway was able to fight her way to second +1.60 behind just ahead of the USA's Ida Sargent +1.79 off the lead.  For all three it was their first World Cup podiums.  Kowalczyk crossed the line in 4th +2.35 back.  

 

In the men's competition Retivykh came from second place on the final curve to overtake Norway's Sondre Turvoll Fossli to win his first World Cup by +0.30.  In third place was Russian Andrey Parfenov +0.73 back.  It was his second World Cup sprint podium following another third place finish in Rybinsk 2015.  He took third just 0.01 ahead of Canada's Lenny Valjas.  

 

It was the first time any of these athletes competed on this sprint course which featured a long early climb followed by a very large second climb similar in height to the final hill of the Ruka sprint course.  The course is being tested as a possible option for next winter's Olympic Games. 

 

Competitions continue tomorrow with the Skiathlon.  Ladies' will complete a 7.5 km + 7.5 km course and the men will go 15 km + 15 km .

 

 

Full Results Men and Women

 

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Kowalczyk well on her way to her first top level win since the Sochi Olympics :p 

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Lee Chae-won finishes 12th, the first ever top-12 finish for a Korean cross-country skier (male/female) :d 

 

Also the first time ever to have two Japanese in the top-10 :d 

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40 minutes ago, dcro said:

Looks like our dear friend :DMA Angelica Morrone di Silvestri is back. :lol:

 

Although, she did not start the first race. :p

 

https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=CC&raceid=28437

Something with "Great minds think alike", I was going to this thread to post the exact same thing :d 

 

What a surprise she didn't start, I guess that's called the Dominican Disease :evil:

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Races in places like Bosnia, Serbia and so on are also perfect examples of how incredibly important it is to choose your races wisely...Bruna very nearly beat Ilic on the 5k free earlier this week, which would have gotten her like 155 points here instead of 319. 

 

 

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