Saturday\u2019s ski festival at Lugnet is now fully underway. In the sprint prologue, Olympic sprint gold medalists Linn Svahn and Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo were the fastest of all. Take the opportunity to follow the drama live at Lugnet this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Around lunchtime on Saturday, the World Cup competitions at Lugnet got started with the prologue for the afternoon\u2019s sprint finals. One athlete who showed that her form remains very strong is Linn Svahn, who in her first sprint since winning Olympic gold a week and a half ago was by far the fastest in the prologue. Svahn skated the 1.4 kilometers in 2:54.36, finishing 4.6 seconds ahead of Switzerland\u2019s Nadine F\u00e4hndrich. Third in the prologue was local skier Johanna Hagstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n
No fewer than nine Swedish women advanced to the afternoon sprint finals (which begin at 3:30 p.m.).<\/p>\n
On the men\u2019s side, Olympic star Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo showed his class and was the fastest of all. He finished two and a half seconds ahead of France\u2019s Lucas Chanavat and another two-tenths of a second ahead of Italy\u2019s Federico Pellegrino. The best Swedish skier in the prologue was local athlete George Ersson, who placed seventh. In total, six Swedish skiers secured spots among the thirty competitors who will race in the afternoon heats.<\/p>\n
During the morning, there was also competition in Nordic combined, as part of a Continental Cup event. The mass start came first, and on the women\u2019s side yesterday\u2019s winner Ida Marie Hagen delivered an impressive performance. Hagen finished 55 seconds ahead of Germany\u2019s Nathalie Armbruster in the five-kilometer race. On the men\u2019s side, it was extremely close: three skiers sprinted to the finish within one second of each other after skiing ten kilometers. The fastest was Austria\u2019s Fabio Obermayr, ahead of Norway\u2019s Aleksander Skoglund and Germany\u2019s Benedikt Graebert.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, starting at 2:15 p.m., it\u2019s time for ski jumping on the normal hill.<\/p>\n
There are already plenty of spectators at Lugnet, so don\u2019t miss the chance to experience the excitement both on the hill and on the cross-country trails.<\/p>\n