Cross-country skiing : Emilie Bulle overcomes the terrible climb of Alpe Cermis
With just a few hours to go before the eagerly-awaited conclusion of the 2024/2025 Tour de Ski, a large number of skiers took to the start line this Sunday morning for La Rampa con i Campioni, a cross-country ski race contested on the same route that the World Cup athletes will take to reach the summit ofAlpe Cermis (Italy).
A popular event attracting a large number of participants, the women’s competition also benefited a French cross-country skier. Present in the Dolomites to encourage her compatriots, Emilie Bulle was the strongest on the terrible slopes of the ascent.
It was a symbolic victory for the US Autrans rider, who succeeds the legend Justyna Kowalczyk on the list of women’s winners. Behind her, Sigrid Mutscheller and Laura Stichling completed the top 3.
In the men’s race, it was a man who is used to this climb with its 28% gradients who came out on top. Already the winner in 2023, Dario Cologna did it again, with style, late on Sunday morning.
The Swiss, who could be joined in the next few hours by Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo in the list of cross-country skiers with the most overall wins on tour, dominated the climb head and shoulders. At the finish line, he was ahead of Italy’s Paolo Fanton and Germany’s Toni Escher, who was stronger than Petter Northug Jr in the final.
A number of French riders also lined up for this event. And the best of them was Dorian Girard-Carrabin, who finished a very good fourteenth. The Team Vercors Isère member finished ahead of Antoine Agnellet, twenty-third, Titouan Blanchard, twenty-seventh, Léo Perrillat, thirty-ninth, Alexandre Fournier-Langlais, fifty-seventh, Martin Pelong, sixty-third, Arthur Jalle, sixty-sixth, Dzmitry Suhak, seventy-eighth, Gaston Cavagnoud, ninety-second, andEtienne Vulliet, ninety-first.
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