On Sunday, the Tour de Ski was decided.

The skiers struggled up the busy slalom slope and were urged on by leaders and spectators.

But the cheering doesn't seem to have been of much help to the Norwegian stars Heidi Weng and Johannes Höfsflot Kläbo.

Weng says she was disturbed by the crowd.

- I had a problem with the cowbell in the audience.

It gave me a headache.

When you reach the finish line, it's calm, but then and there I got a terrible headache, she says according to NRK.

Kläbo: "Impossible to hear anything"

Kläbo believes that the crowd noise drowned out the leaders' information about how he was in the overall standings (which Kläbo led by a large margin and eventually won).

- At the end it was impossible to hear anything.

I had no idea how I was doing.

So I got a little stressed and went full throttle towards the end, he says and continues:

- I think it was because my coach was standing right next to where the audience had the watches and the saw.

He couldn't outvote them.

But I think life on the track is fun.

Halfvarsson irritated after the loss: "Hate it more than anything in the world"

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Calle Halfvarsson lost the podium in the Tour de Ski.

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