While French Adrien Backscheider leg off in a clear lead, with Swedish Calle Halfvarsson on the back, we could on the first two rounds of the anchor leg see a Petter Northug that did not work very keen to chase.
On the contrary he several times behind, let it be a hatch to the two front and then retrieve them again.
Analyzed trail
29-year-old confirmed that he was so little concerned about lead that he rather spent the first half of the race to test different ways he could determine the relay on.
– I did not passed the course before the start, so I had to use the first two rounds to analyze a little and know little on the course. Some places were firmer places looser, so then one must before third round decide on a strategy, explains Northug.
– You then have ice in your stomach that makes stuff on an anchor leg?
– Yes. It’s about to come first above goals, and then you have to be a bit of analytic along the way. Today had been a scandal to be number two. It is about being icy, yet make each slide right on last round, said Northug.
NORWEGIAN GOLD: Here Halfvarsson sprinted sinking by Northug.
NORWEGIAN GOLD: Here Halfvarsson sprinted lowering of Northug.
Cheaper travel
Northug got answers he hoped under skitestingen. Glide was good. Thus, he could put up the pace a bit and use the last slopes to glide forward to the Frenchman. On the last little hill before the run he put in for the kill. Halfvarsson hung exactly with when he started the sprint, and Northug got that little lead that held until the finish line.
NRK commentator Jann Post says not many had other than Petter Northug had taken the time to skit stitch on an anchor leg.
– But Northug is customary. He’s trying to get a sense of how good glide he has, so he knows how much he can drop down the slopes along the way and so get a cheaper journey. He drops three to four feet above every hilltop and energy he saves where he uses in the sprint at the end, explains Post.
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