09:51. Last Wednesday, less than 24 hours before the start of the world cross-country skiing championships in Trondheim (Norway), Erik Valnes left the Norwegiantraining session prematurely after suffering back pains.
A few hours later, we learned that the Scandinavian would not be able to defend his chances in the inaugural skate sprint. A few days after this incident, the 28-year-old cross-country skier seems to be feeling better and should be able to line up at the start of the individual classic scheduled for Tuesday.
“We’ll see how it goes, but for the moment, he’s skiing. It‘s likely that he’ll be on the start line,” Eirik Myhr Nossum, coach of the Norwegian team, told NTB. But there’s still plenty of time until Tuesday.
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