Kirkpatrick

Very surprising and nice result for the curser.

Windisch with quite a fall.

Kaisa did wonderful just now. Shame they have so little chance.

Even top sprinters are missing, on both sides. Guess most of them welcomed rest after Tour de Ski over some small gains in the overall/sprint.

Quick look showed only Sundling being there, none of the other from top 10 overall. EDIT: My bad, not even Sundling!

Everybody* is taking a weekend off during Dresden sprint races. *top 10 overall from men's side for sure, very similar from women's too

Terrible director of TV coverage today. Though, guess that fog could've made his/her job more difficult.

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Guess it wouldn't matter much in this particular race, as the 4th placed and higher placed athletes were 2 minutes behind. For first 6 kilometers we'd watch 3 guys, instead of 50. Best would be interval here as well.

Great from Marchand, maybe top 10 result even. Not great from Rodeš though, nor Kristoffersen.

Mission accomplished.

Km more and maybe he'd get it. Krueger was awesome today.

Andorra 9th.

Klaebo 1:06 behind, come on Roethe!

Can Roethe grab third? Can Klaebo lose that much?

Ouch, 15+ seconds now behind.

No Eurosport at all anymore in Croatia, save for one or two small providers. Discovery wanted too much I guess. But Player saved everything. No Croatian there as well, but there's Serbian, close enough. EDIT: He does know the difference between points and seconds though! Serbia -> Britain.

Are there no interns on Eurosport? Someone to google Tour de Ski for Mike and Pat, who continue with their disinformations.

Pinturault DSQ even though it looked like he didn't straddle in replay. Kristoffersen +1.5!

41 started, 41 finished, Lampič, points winner, as 41st. Last year there were only 28 finishers.

Johaug looks like she could do another 10 km climb. Such a superiority on this track. Neprayeva again second, Oesberg third (whole TdS I mean).

Weng going off with Johaug. Rest are 10+ seconds behind. But now Johaug drops Weng as well. Less than a km of climb, and the field is obliterated.

They are infuriating! At least read a wiki, I did that!

Pat and Mike again talking about bonus seconds and that they'll be a big part of this race, as in they'd be added to the time? Bonus points are rewarded at 2.3 and 6.6 km though.

Final climb last year: Ustiugov 31:47.6 Bolshunov 32:34.1 (+0:46.5) Klaebo 32:51.3 (+1:03.7) 9 kilometers then, and think only Ustiugov really gave it all upon that hill, but couldn't managed to catch Klaebo. Don't think Bolshunov really tried hard, was 1:40+ before final stage. Krueger and Roethe were awesome, and easily the fastest guys with almost 30 seconds better time then the third closest (which wasn't any of the top 3). Roethe 30:32.0 Krueger 30:33.3 Today I'd rather watch that small group of three, but we'll get huge one of 40+ athletes, yet another mass start. Girls will be interesting, Johaug isn't that impressive this Tour, but the last time she raced on this hill, 2016, she left the others minute and a half behind!