On Sunday, the first stage of the World Cup in cross-country skiing will end in the Finnish Hand. Two freestyle pursuit races will take place on this day. We bring to your attention the forecast for the men's pursuit race, which will be the last this weekend.
Zaruba is hot for men on the ski run. On Saturday, in the individual classic style race, the gaps turned out to be very small – the 8 best skiers were separated by only half a minute. It's nice that five of the eight leaders turned out to be Russians, and we now expect a gold medal from one of them.
Bookmakers see Alexander Bolshunov as a small favorite of the race, despite all his problems and surgery on the eve of the start of the new season. In the "individual", the current owner of the Big Crystal Globe was enough for most of the distance, but because of the greased preparation, it will be difficult to recover at first, and we still do not expect a victory from Alexander in this race. Chervotkin looked preferable on Saturday, who, apparently, is ready to add and win.
Sergey Ustyugov managed to show himself not in the best way with a classical style. In the "skate" he has to catch up and seriously fight for medals here. The Norwegians did not prepare for the start stage in the best way, being under loads, and Sergey had to be higher than Valnes. In the Norwegian showdown, we will put Iversen and Klebo on the latter, who is able to eliminate the 13-point gap due to character and tactics.
