For the second consecutive season, the Telemark World Cup circuit travels to the Gran Pallars Espot resort, which has become the epicenter of this sport in Spain. The Pallars resort is hosting the Telemark World Championships for 2013. Fans will be able to see the best riders in action in the free heel technique. In total, around seventy skiers from fourteen countries. In the men's category, the team to beat is the Lau Team, formed by the brothers Chris, Sven and Philipe Lau, who lead the powerful French team, which in recent seasons has managed to unseat the Scandinavian powers.
Philippe, the current leader of the absolute world cup, dominates the sprint specialty and defends the partial title from last season and has won the five races contested so far. After two events, Sven, with a victory in the giant slalom, leads the partial classification of this modality, but with the Swede Mattias Wagenius thirty points behind. The third specialty, the classic, presents the tightest classification, with the Norwegian Eirik Rykhus and the Swiss Bastien Dayer, tied at 150 points. In the Spanish team, the top representative is the veteran skier from Madrid Tomás Testillano, who also works as a coach for the RFDEI team. This season, his best result is a sixteenth position obtained in the sprint test in the Austrian resort of Rauris.
In the women's category there is no color. The Swiss Ameli Reymond continues to dominate the Telemark World Cup circuit. Last season she won the overall title and the giant, sprint and classic. This season she is undefeated, after winning the nine races contested so far. The skier from Sion has 37 victories in the World Cup and is on track to break all records. The skier from Granollers Raquel Bau will be the only Spanish representative. The Catalan arrives in Espot just in preparation, as she has recently become the mother of her first child. Bau returned to the competition on February 3 and 4 at the Swiss resort of Thyon, where she finished in eighteenth and nineteenth position.
Source: Flocs-Skicenter
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