Seven skiers made an early break and were six to seven minutes ahead of the main group.

Two of the seven, Marco Friedrich, Austria and the Romanian Eduard-Michael Grosu released after just over half the race.

Lucas Eriksson was in the big crowd for most of the race and followed.

With ten kilometers left to go, the dense group was further divided.

Jonas Koch, Germany and Torstein Traeen then had four minutes to spare on the main cluster, which seriously began to take up the hunt for them up there.

And the cluster took in the two at the front.

Second by second, they came closer.

The cluster came into competition

For the Japanese Yukiya Arashiro, it was a few ungrateful miles when he was alone as third, just over a minute behind the duo at the top and almost as far in front of the main group.

And with just over 70 kilometers left, he was overtaken, while Friedrich and Grosu had a lead of one and a half minutes.

For the last six miles, the field was gathered and the race to the finish line began.

When there was less than 40 km left, Tadej Podacar did, he was picked up and in the end it was between a handful of skiers about the World Cup gold.

Julian Alaphilippe, France, grabbed a lead that led to gold.

The others did not even try to sprint in him but bet on the battle for silver and bronze.

Five skiers competed for medals and it was Wout van Aert, Belgium, who took silver, ahead of the Swiss Marc Hirschi.

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Filippo Ganna took World Cup gold in the pace race.

Photo: Andrew Medichini / AP / TT