{"id":53759,"date":"2022-11-25T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukanordic.com\/?p=53759"},"modified":"2022-11-26T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:28:46","slug":"cross-country-world-cup-starts-for-the-normal-distances-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukanordic.com\/en\/cross-country-world-cup-starts-for-the-normal-distances-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Country World Cup starts for the normal distances on Saturday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, the World Cup starts also for the normal distances. In the women&#8217;s first competition, ladies will ski 10 kilometers with the traditional way as an intermediate start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Finns, there will be an interesting competition when<\/span> <b>Kerttu Niskanen<\/b>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who won silver on this particular distance from the Beijing Olympics, gets to start her World Cup season. A good result <\/span>can also be expected from <b>Krista P\u00e4rm\u00e4koski,<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after her great last training season<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jasmi Joensuu<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">took part in the World Cup final for the first time, finishing fourth<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">place in the sprint on Friday<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new<\/span> <b>era<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span> <b>about<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to start f<\/span>or <b>women&#8217;s<\/b> cross-country skiing<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. ,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One<\/span> of the athletes aiming for <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johaug&#8217;s place<\/span> is Sweden&#8217;s <b>Frida Karlsson<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karlsson,<\/span> who <b>celebrated<\/b> victory in the Ruka 10 km race last season,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. is ready to fight for victory this year as well. Karlsson said after the Friday\u2019s sprint race<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that<\/span> she is in <b>good<\/b> shape,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and that it will certainly show in the rest of the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weekend&#8217;s competition. A high-level competition can be expected, when the world&#8217;s best skiers get to measure each others for the first time on Ruka&#8217;s renewed five-kilometer track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Text: Yvonne Koch<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Jarno Jumppanen<\/p>\n<p>Laajasalon opisto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the World Cup starts also for the normal distances. 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