three seasons in a row, Martin Johnsrud Sundby chased Petter Northug. Apparently he has taken again skikameraten its long. Do you read the overall results of the World Cup in that period says only that Martin has won everything, but that is the way the not:
•• People read fortunately not aggregate lists and memorize not World Cup points. They see who wins the largest ski races and ranks flows by emotions.
Therefore also started this season with the feeling that Martin certainly never could get out of Petters shadow. Then Northug greatest anyway, but not now.
FOR conclusion of Ski Tour Canada in the mighty mountain scenery of Canmore was a monumental experience of what really happened in the cross-over of those winters. In a contest that might as well be shown in black white with break pictures of spruce trees in anticipation of skiers who never came, had all finally see how Martin has taken over Petters role as the one who changes the rules of the sport
•• No one has ever gone faster and tougher over distance skiing than him.
Or, as Martin even tried to explain it having acquired Sergej Ustiogov, distanced Petter and pressure from the Russian in a slush lead that went out all the powers even of the sport’s toughest toilers:
– I tend to use the image of a puzzle. This winter, the pieces naturally fell into place, he said.
Natural? It’s a bit of an expression for 1150 hours a year with more strenuous exercise than any other Norwegian athlete has completed.
ON Martin with these three triumphs in a row in the World Cup is also history’s best cross country skier, is another question. There will Championships -and Olympic gold count more, and how you experienced ski hero usually most. In a sport without a defined framework for comparing times, it becomes difficult to assess the level also among the very best. Except between Martin and Petter then. For they are about as old, and competing side by side.
At least until recently.
FOR Now there is no doubt that Martin stung from. He is able to keep a pace in most type of terrain that is measurable over Petters maximum level. There has been a difference that can not be offset with emotion. Martin Johnsrud Sundby is a better skier than Petter Northug.
Initially changing the hunt. In recent years, the offsetting Petters sovereign asked characterized most of the Martins training work. It is here that the puzzle pieces come in. For how could a runner with lower oxygen consumption than competitor still be the strongest? Yes, by twisting and turning on each of the sport community, pinching one second there and one here and then just keep looking and toil on.
Finally, it was one minute of it in the decisive duel in the Canadian wilderness.
THE SAME TIME was cross country an even more exciting sport for us just to see. Hereinafter, the roles reversed. It is Peter who wants to come to Martins level, and that’s going to work out then up to the World Championships in Lahti next winter.
He has a good chance to get it right. The start could certainly not have been better. Rarely have Petter been so honest, sober, analytical and generous as in the interview with NRK yesterday evening after being distanced in yet another tour-ending. It was not he who spoke about ski gliding inferior or through soft snow that made it extra hard for the heaviest runners. Only two competitors he both respected and indulgent all good.
LIKE was a great end to a conflict that is not there more between the national team and Petter Northug. In Skaters life has never been there. At least not after the first spontaneous annoyance at the quarry in 2013 had subsided.
Later it has become clear that the best results come with the best runners overall. Training the national team has given progress on many of the guys. Also Petter has performed at top in the periods in which he has been closest group.
He does perhaps more interested in getting more frequently towards the World Cup season. For the he pursues is where it trained both the hardest and most correct, and now it is Martin who do Petter good.
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