Three-time Olympic cross-country ski champion Alexander Bolshunov on , he commented on the victory in the skiathlon at the stage of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup in Kazan, noting that the race turned out to be equal.
Bolshunov completed the 10 km classic and 10 km freestyle in 47 minutes 48.1 seconds. Savely Korostelev finished second (3.3 seconds behind), Artem Maltsev third (+4.1).
— Today was an interesting race. A short distance for skiathlon, only 20 kilometers. We walked in a large group, there was nowhere to go into the gap, and if there was somewhere, then we had to work from start to finish. Today it was a smoother race, at the end we were either thinking about speeding up on the climb or a little later. I don’t know anything about the falls, apparently they were behind me, I didn’t hear anything. There were no common tactics with Korostelev,” Bolshunov said on .
For Bolshunov, this victory was the 15th in a row at the stages of the Russian Cup, he has never lost this season.
The next stage of the Russian Cup will take place in Tyumen in early February.
Source : MatchTV
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