Russia have long positioned ourselves as the main rivals of the stellar Norwegian skiing team. But in fact, in the 21st century, they completely lost all the main starts to them. Look at the medal standings of all the latest world championships and the Olympics - there is a noticeable dominance of one country.
“Bolshunov is the king of skis. He has "50 km" written on his medal. Vyalbe - about the historical performance of skiers.
The last time Russia beat the Norwegians was during the time of Elena Vyalbe . When she was still an athlete. At the 1997 World Championships in Trondheim, where the current head of the FLGR burned with napalm, we had 10 medals, and the hosts had nine. And then, out of six gold medals, five were immediately on Vyalba's account.
Then there were the Olympic Games in Nagano. There, the Norwegians were already better in terms of the number of medals (9:8), but Russia performed stronger in gold medals (5:4).
Since then, everything. Abyss.
There hasn't been such intense competition for 24 years
And now, in Beijing 2022, a new chapter has been written. No matter how the women's Sunday marathon ends, Norway will not get our team in terms of the number of awards. Russia has 11, while Klebo and Co. have seven. There are four or four for gold now. There is a high probability that Teresa Johaug will win the Top 30, and according to this indicator, the Norwegians will still win. But there has not been such intense competition between countries for 24 years.
What is it connected with? Veronika Stepanova, talking about this, speaks of a well-built system in Russian skiing. And it's hard to argue with that.
Yes, there is an absolute superstar - Alexander Bolshunov. But we can not say that we leave only on it.
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