Petter Northug wins again, but Tuesday will Dario Cologna take the show in their own garden party.
Val Mustair (Aftenposten.no): Rebell Northug. Against modest Cologna. They could hardly have been more different. But it is failed to look out for during the sprint in Val Müstair. Here are Northug really away from home.
– I’m not a favorite. But I hope to win important bonus seconds, smiles the triple Tour de Ski winner.
2000 people live in the valley Val Müstair.
Remember Lyngen Tschierv has 350 residents and a street named Via Dario Cologna.
Not entirely unlike Framverran except that Northug not currently have any street names named after him.
It takes one minute and 11 seconds to run through this small Swiss alpine village completely at the border with Italy.
Here we see posters everywhere. By a smiling face. Home hero. Dario Cologna. “Jump, jump, jump, Dario!”.
Even parents Remo and Christina has a poster of her son and Olympic hero outside wall of the house. From the balcony you can see skistadion Tschierv few hundred meters away.
This is Dario lawn. Welcome to the farm, Northug!
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– Nice to have Petter back
– I might have a slight advantage to go on home. It gives me a good feeling. It’s nice to have the audience that helps me.
– But now you meet a Northug who is back in top kind?
– I think it is very nice to have Peter back wins. It’s always fun to fight with him, because we’ve had some nice duels. Now there will be a battle between us to win the bonus seconds. But Sprint is not my favorite distance. And I will not be a faster skier although I’m at home.
Lille Tschierv bathed in the morning sun. Photographers gather around Petter Northug when he arrives skistadion.
trøndere smiles, stifles a yawn and turn off a giggle with someone in the support.
Northug is determined and in godlune day after he finally won an international races again and took the lead in Tour de Ski. The King is back. But he takes a day off from the media in village idyll.
Cologna is already in place. Swiss set up on a few “selfies”. But even if he is at home, it is far from popstar state we experience around Northug.
– There is never any circus around Dario. He is always calm. He is not particularly talkative. It is not that spectacular that makes him interesting, says Elmar Wagner in Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
– He is the opposite of Northug?
– Petter Northug is in many ways a crazy kid. Dario has self control and there has never been any negative surprises around him. At least not that I can remember, says the Swiss reporter who follows Cologna densely.
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Only Federer greater
Northug is a giant in the Norwegian sports. Cologna is the same in Switzerland. He has won the Tour de Ski three times. He has three Olympic gold to his credit, two of them in Sochi after injury ruined season preparations.
This year’s Swiss and year Swiss sportsman name two years ago. And only beaten by tennis star in 2014.Now, he goes for his fourth Tour de Ski triumph. And although Cologna now Davos permanent residence he thought it is always nice to come back to Val Müstair.
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– It is a small valley. Here it is very quiet. Val Müstair is special for its nature. If you want to relax from everyday stress is perfect here!
But apropos Cologna and lack of controversy. Some turbulence was Monday when Cologna Swiss Blick was quoted as saying that he believed Martin Johnsrud Sundby should have been punished when he went wrong in the prologue Saturday.
– I think it’s good for the Tour de Ski that Sundby still here. But if someone makes a mistake, he must be punished. And FIS does not follow their rules.
It reiterated Cologna when he lined up Monday afternoon at a press conference organized by the Tour host. Then he disappeared into the afternoon dusk Tschierv. Out in their kingdom.
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