Cross-country skiing: Simen Hegstad Krueger talks about his fall on the track and in the Tour de Ski rankings
SATURDAY, Simen Hegstad Krueger had one of those days when you feel like the sky is falling on your head. While he could claim to finish the Ski Tour on the podium, he fell and broke a pole at the start of the skiathlon in Val di Fiemme (Italy). Afterwards, he experienced a way of the cross which swallowed him up to 51st place, crossing the finish line almost 4’30 later Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo.
With a red backpack on his back, he left the stadium without saying a word. No statement therefore in the press zone that he ran across.
“At that moment, I didn’t want to talk to anyone”entrusted the Olympic and world champion skier of the format to VG in the evening at the hotel. Still marked, he speaks of a “costly fall” since it dropped him to 28th place in the general classification, more than seven minutes behind his compatriot. “I don’t want to think about it too much anymore”he adds.
Live, on Eurosport, Maurice Manifest was already talking about a “bad operation which will cost him dearly”.
“It was awkward”commented his former teammate Hans Christer Holundnow a consultant for Viaplay. “It was more bad luck than clumsiness », defended the person concerned who had the impression that an incident had occurred on his skiing, without knowing its content. He thought of a stone. The online newspaper was able to observe the members of the jury examining the track at the place where the Norwegian fell. Nothing was found. Erik Valnes favors the track of “grooves in the snow » with which “it is possible to hang on”.
As the national team doctor had already indicated Ove Feragen, Simen Hegstad Krueger claims he is not injured. During the race, he still had difficulty breathing properly. “I’m a little sore. It doesn’t feel like a rib is broken. I will probably have an answer tomorrow [aujourd’hui] if that is the case. »
The Norwegian will start the climb of theAlpe Cermis this Sunday. “Unfortunately I don’t have much to say for the general. But I can try to climb this hill as quickly as possible. I have a little aggression that I want to release”he confided. Meet at 2:15 p.m.
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