Photo: Iltasanomat
Kaisa Mäkäräinen took the third victory in the World Cup. She was overwhelming in Hochfilzen in Austria .On Friday, she had only one penalty lap and did not give opponents a chance. She defeated the second, Russian Ekaterina Glazyrinan by as much as 34.4 seconds. The third was a French Anais Bescond. Finns have been so bad in wintersports for a few years now that I am afraid to watch competitions, but I trust Mäkäräinen so I watched EuroSport today. She has just been recovering from flu, so she said she only skied as much as was necessary. Yet I watched her arriving in the finish with a smile and a victory wave, while the next four fell down after crossing the finish line.
After five individual competitions, the balance is staggering: 3 wins and a second and third place. 31-year-old Mäkäräinen has now won 12 World Cup competitions.
Mäkäräinen leads the overall competitions in the World Cup, 77 points ahead of Belarus Daria Domratsheva, who failed badly in pursuit (13th).
I had to get the photo from Iltasanomat again.
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