Tomorrow sees the traditional Drammen sprint moved to Trondhiem in what should be a men's race totally dominated by Norwegians and a women's race in which the usual top 10 sprinters will vye for supremecy. There are a couple a href="http://www.langd.se/brynte-och-lina-missar-vc-sprinten.4565521-86106.html"Swede's absent/a from the start lists as well as Kuitunen, a href="http://go.vg.no/cgi-bin/go.cgi/sispalte/http://www.vg.no/sport/ski/langrenn/artikkel.php?artid=560867"Kristoffersen/a (due to sickness) and a href="http://go.vg.no/cgi-bin/go.cgi/sispalte/http://www.vg.no/sport/ski/langrenn/artikkel.php?artid=560906"Hetland/a out for the season due to surgery needed to repair cartilage in his knee. br /br /a href="http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CCraceid=14268"Women's Predictions/a br /1. Petra Majdicbr /2. Aino Kaisa Saarinenbr /3. Astrid Jacobsenbr /br /a href="http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CCraceid=14269"Men's Predictions/abr /1. Ola Vigen Hattestadbr /2. Børre Næssbr /3. Eirik Brandsdalbr /br /An interesting article from from a href="http://www.langd.se/northug-tjanar-miljoner.4564790-86106.html"Langrenn.com/a talks about how Northug re-negotiated his contracts with sponsors in the summer so they were more heavily weighted for performance bonuses. It seems to have paid off. According to VG (one of Norway's major newspapers), Northug raked in 2.5 million kroner (approx. $500,000 CDN dollars) from his gold medal performances in Liberec. br /br /Til Tomorrow.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5681647567099261892-4219229251564725187?l=nordicxplained.blogspot.com' alt='' //div