AKatharina Hennig sees Victoria Carl getting off track with her skis, pushing her poles into the snow, overtaking Natalia Nepryaeva, Tour de Ski winner from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROK) team how she overtakes Jonna Sundling, Olympic sprint champion from Sweden, how she crosses the finish line with a ski boot length lead, when Katharina Hennig sees it, she says: “That’s not possible.”
At this moment there are many women and men around Hennig who probably think like that. The runners from Sweden. The runners of the ROK. The runners from Finland who led the race until the final climb. And the coaches from Germany. But she herself should have guessed that it could happen after all. She was chatting with Victoria Carl before the race, they will tell later, when she said, “I’m going to destroy her on the home stretch.” And what can you say? She destroyed them on the home stretch.