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Seefeld pre-tournament thoughts
Thursday, February 21st, 2019 01:07* It’s STARTING! The magic is finally starting!
* The sprint is the first event. It’s also simultaneously the event I’m looking forward to most AND the one that will be hardest for me emotionally.
* Because it means all my main favourites will be likely to race directly against each other… or also potentially lose to someone I can’t stand.
* I want Johannes to win, obviously.
* But I would also be really happy for Chicco to do so.
* The two of them are almost equally important to me now.
* There, I said it!
* So, besides the two of them, I also really want Sergey Ustyugov to have a good tournament.
* And I want to see Didrik Tønseth - preferably more than once. Nope, the “hitting-a-competitor-on-the-track” episode has not made me like him less. It disappointed me, but I still care about him a lot.
* And I also generally root for Team Norway, Team Russia, Team Italy and Team Czech Republic.
* Unfortunately with some exceptions.
* Therese Johaug and Emil Iversen can both kindly not win things. Or, if Emil gets a chance to redeem himself on the team sprint, I get that it would be important and okay, but I don’t want him to win anything else.
* And Therese, I simply don’t like. She WILL win things, though, because that’s what she’s been doing all season. But: Pffft, I won’t be very enthusiastic about that.
* The sprint is the first event. It’s also simultaneously the event I’m looking forward to most AND the one that will be hardest for me emotionally.
* Because it means all my main favourites will be likely to race directly against each other… or also potentially lose to someone I can’t stand.
* I want Johannes to win, obviously.
* But I would also be really happy for Chicco to do so.
* The two of them are almost equally important to me now.
* There, I said it!
* So, besides the two of them, I also really want Sergey Ustyugov to have a good tournament.
* And I want to see Didrik Tønseth - preferably more than once. Nope, the “hitting-a-competitor-on-the-track” episode has not made me like him less. It disappointed me, but I still care about him a lot.
* And I also generally root for Team Norway, Team Russia, Team Italy and Team Czech Republic.
* Unfortunately with some exceptions.
* Therese Johaug and Emil Iversen can both kindly not win things. Or, if Emil gets a chance to redeem himself on the team sprint, I get that it would be important and okay, but I don’t want him to win anything else.
* And Therese, I simply don’t like. She WILL win things, though, because that’s what she’s been doing all season. But: Pffft, I won’t be very enthusiastic about that.
