Katharina Henning embodies something, which is painfully missing in German cross country skiing for about a decade: world-class. At least punctual. At the end of November, the 25-year-old Oberwiesenthaler stormed in the Finnish cold on the podium, on the otherwise so dominant Norwegian Therese Johan was missing only 1.5 seconds. There was no one in a team, it decided team boss Peter's closed root, while Henning was Super happy and her skis was joyous as real missiles.
If everything comes together and the right discipline (10 kilometers in classical technology) is pending, Henning is a podium candidate. It is all the more painful that the guide figure of the checking raided team now squeezed in front of the tour de ski starting on Tuesday and had a break due to a cold. I had to reduce the training first, but have been able to set a good training block over Christmas, said Henning.
Your race will be Val di Fierce again, that loves you, of course, because she made her first podium.
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The extra layers on the holidays should help the election all-making, for the competitions in Lenzerheide, Oberstdorf and Val di Fierce to come back to top level. The tens classic is in principle towards her. Their race will be Val di Fierce again, of course, she loves her, since she made her first pedestal. That's what you like, said ex-athlete closed orders of the German press agency. For him, Henning is not only sporty the strongest, but also teaming extremely important. If it has to be, she also gives the sound, she said.
Despite the additional training, Henning could spend Christmas with the family in their homeland in the Erzgebirge — for the first time for three years, as she said. Sporty you would like to confirm the two eighth overall ranks of 2020 and 2021 at the Tour de Ski.
If the body goes through, I would like to go through and look forward to a top 10 placement in the overall standings, said Henning before the beginning of the prestigious stage race, which traditionally takes place around the turn of the year.
Only Olympia standard, then vaccination
The focus of the German cross-country ski team is addressed to Olympic Winter Games (4 to 20 February) this winter. The motto of the packing root protégé is: first create the qualification for Olympics, then bring the third vaccine against the coronavirus early. The Tour de Ski is therefore only a stopover on the way to Beijing. With leaders Henning, the expectation after the disease must be significantly down, let's know.
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