Gold via video referee: Norway's no-names surprise everyone

Norway is one of the strongest nations in the Ski World Cup. But the big stars like Henrik Kristoffersen (waited), Aleksander Aamodt Kilde or Lucas Braathen (both injured) were not there in the team competition. Of the big names, only Sebastian Foss-Solevaag was involved, while Thea Louise Stjernesund, Kristina Riis-Johannessen and Fabian Wilkens Solheim are probably only known to insiders. But in the end, none of that mattered. Because the Norwegians surprisingly won World Championship gold for the first time in history in the team event, which, as always, was held as a parallel race.

In the grand final, the Ski Elks prevailed against the quartet from Sweden, who also surprised. One duel in particular was very strange: Sebastian Foos-Solevaag competed against Kristoffer Jakobsen. In the middle part of the route, the Norwegian suddenly stopped his journey because he apparently felt irritated by the Swede, who was coming dangerously close to his competitor's course.

Sebastian Foss-Solevaag (front) in the final duel with Kristoffer Jakobsen. © APA/afp / FABRICE COFFRINI

Foss-Solevaag immediately protested to FIS race director Markus Waldner. Because the video images clearly show that the Norwegian stopped out of caution, it was decided that this duel would be repeated. Foss-Solevaag won the new run, making it 2-1 for his team and then saw his compatriot Fabian Wilkens Solheim bring home the gold medal against Mattias Rönngren. Germany takes bronze, favorites stumble The German team took bronze. © APA/afp / ANDREAS SOLARO

So while the Swedes Estelle Alphand, Sara Hector, Jakobsen and Rönngren won the silver medal, the bronze went to the German team, which is on a real run at this World Cup. There have already been silver 3 times, now bronze is the fourth precious metal. In the small final there was a prestigious victory against the defending champions Switzerland, who had been considered number 1 favorite for gold before the race. Austria, with the newly crowned parallel world champion Katharina Liensberger, also came up short in the end: in the quarter-finals it was over against the eventual finalists from Sweden. Delago steps in as a replacement and is convincing Italy was also eliminated in the quarter-finals: they lost 1-3 to Germany. Nadia Delago, of all people, scored the point for the Azzurri, who only happened to be making her third World Cup appearance. In the round of XNUMX, her teammate Lara Della Mea suffered a serious fall suffered a knee injury and had to be taken to the hospital . Delago stepped into the breach as a substitute and did a more than decent job against the German Emma Aichner.

But because Giovanni Borsotti, Laura Pirovano and Luca De Aliprandini lost out to Stefan Luitz, Andrea Filser and Alexander Schmid, it was over in the quarter-finals. In the end, the Azzurri, who won World Cup bronze in Åre two years ago, finished eighth.

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Gold via video referee: Norway's no-names surprise everyone

The team event at the World Championships in Cortina had some curiosities in store. And a winner that probably nobody had on the list.

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