Source: Langrenn.com
The doping convicted polish skier Justyna Kowalczyk crushed most of the Russian women's national team skiers in a race on Friday December 23.
This signals that Kowalczyk will be a hot challenger for Marit Bjorgen and the other female favorites at the upcoming Olympics in Torino.
Justyna Kowalczyk was first shut out of all competitions for two years following a doping violation during a race on January 23, 2005. This was appealed and reduced to one year and then reduced again by CAS to the beginning of December this year.
See detail on the case at http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/info-kowalczyk-december.pdf
Results of the race
Krasnogorsk ski track
10 kilometer classic women
1 Kowalczyk Justyna 00:28:43,7
2 Medvedeva Evgena 00:29:13,6 +00:00:29,8
3 Sidko Alena 00:29:25,2 +00:00:41,4
4 Kurkina Larissa 00:29:33,3 +00:00:49,6
5 Nageykina Svetlana 00:29:36,4 +00:00:52,7
6 Burukhina Helen 00:29:58,3 +00:01:14,5
7 Kazakul Anastasiy 00:30:04,9 +00:01:21,2
8 Zavyalova Olga 00:30:06,8 +00:01:23,0
9 Vorontsov Ekaterina 00:30:22,9 +00:01:39,1
10 Artemova Irina 00:30:23,9 +00:01:40,1
Krasnogorsk ski track
15 km classic men
1 Rochev Vasiliy 00:40:19,1
2 Pankratov Nikolai 00:40:50,6 +00:00:31,5
3 Gelmanov Andrey 00:40:55,0 +00:00:35,9
4 Korostelevs Pavel 00:41:05,4 +00:00:46,3
5 Ivanov Mikhail 00:41:07,1 +00:00:48,0
6 Novikov Sergey 00:41:09,0 +00:00:49,9
7 Tokarev Vladimir 00:41:20,1 +00:01:01,0
8 Pirogovs Dmitriy 00:41:21,3 +00:01:02,2
9 Vylegzhanin Maxim 00:41:25,3 +00:01:06,1
10 Nutrikhin Andrey 00:41:30,4 +00:01:11,3
