Kilde did not have an optimal upload before Saturday's competition.

He has been brought down with a cold.

- It just shows that when you manage to mobilize for the minutes when it matters, you don't have to be 100 percent in physical condition.

Also, I have confidence in my riding.

I know that what I do is good and I can take that feeling with me to the start, Kilde told NTB.

On the women's side, the steeplechase went off the rails in Lake Louise.

Then the Italian Sofia Goggia won by 34 hundredths ahead of Nina Ortlieb, from Austria.

The Swiss Corinne Suter finished third.

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Watch the crash that ended the season for Aamodt Kilde.

Photo: SVT/Bildbyrån.