Tour De Ski

[Huja]

Today is the 35km free style for men. I spotted one pretty good odd. Manificat-Hellner 1 2,10 @Unibet Manificat starts 10 secods ahead of Hellner today. I've spotted the fact that Manificat has been very good in free style competitions. I compared their times at Tour De Ski's Oberstdorf 10km+10km race. Manificat was second fastest in free style part with time of 23:36.1. Hellner's time was 23:56.5. Also in Davos 30km free style, Manificat was 2nd after Northug with time of 1:08:35.2 , and Hellner was 4th 1:08:55.6 . I think Manificat should be the favourite in this pair. Propably Manificat, Vylezaghin, Bauer and Hellner make a group to reach Legkov to battle for 3rd place. I bet Vylezaghin and Legkov can't make it to the top 3 today, and the battle is going to be pretty though between Manificat, Bauer and Hellner. My thoughts are that Manificat and Bauer will leave Hellner in last 5km and battle hard for 3rd place in final straight. Also very easy profit my mind is: Kristoffersen-Roponen 1 1,35 @Unibet Kristoffersen has been very good in free style this year, Roponen is 42 seconds behind Kristoffersen, so there is no chance for Roponen.