Nordic combined: Jarl Magnus Riiber on course for an eleventh world title
The Nordic combined events at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim (Norway) are drawing to a close with the men’s gundersen on Saturday. For his last race at the Worlds, Jarl Magnus Riiber (139 metres) crushed the jumping competition in front of his home crowd.
However, the Norwegian is not in the best of shape, slowed down by his Crohn’s disease, as he revealed yesterday after the team race. “My stomach hurts and it’s been like that throughout the championship. I can see that nervousness and stress affect the illness, but the rest days I’ve had in between have worked. I hope I’ll be fine tomorrow,” he told NTB, as quoted by Nidaros.
Jarl Magnus Riiber will take the lead to win his eleventh world title in the cross-country ski pursuit scheduled for this afternoon at 2.30pm. Japan’s Ryota Yamamoto will be second at 1 min 14, Norway’s Espen Bjoernstad third at 1 min 19, followed by Germany’s Julian Schmid at 1 min 32 and Austria’s Johannes Lamparter at 1 min 36.
Marco Heinis best Frenchman
In the French camp, Marco Heinis, author of a very fine jump at 136 metres, is in the best position. He will start in thirteenth position, 2 min 35 behind the king of the discipline.
Behind, Laurent Muhlethaler (124.5 metres) was nineteenth at 3 min 4, Gaël Blondeau (114 metres) thirty-seventh at 4 min 54 and Edgar Vallet (101 metres) forty-first at 6 min 18.
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