Kowalczyk and Bjoergen united?

6th January 2012

Kowalczyk has teamed up with rival Bjoergen

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Arch-rivals Justyna Kowalczyk and Norway’s Marit Bjoergen joined forces in the seventh race of the Tour de Ski in order to distance themselves from the current third placed skier, Therese Johaug.

“I’m concerned about Johaug and I want to gain as big an advantage over her as I possibly can. I hope that Kowalczyk will be interested in setting a fast time and together we can leave Therese a safe distance behind us,” Bjoergen told reporters.

Kowalczyk has had numerous run-ins with Bjoergen over her use of asthma medicine, purportedly to gain an unfair advantage. Asked about the prospect of cooperating with her Nemesis ahead of the next race, Kowalczyk grinned and said, “It’ll be strange...”.

Thursday’s race went as Kowalczyk predicted, with Bjoergen winning and the Pole second, both in the race and in the overall Tour de Ski classification.

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