German skier criticises 50km debut: 'egalitarianism, not equality'

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2026-02-21

Tesero, Italy (dpa) - German cross country skier Katharina Hennig Dotzler has said that having the women cross country ski 50 kilometres like the men has nothing to do with gender equality. The women will contest their maiden Olympic 50km on Sunday after the ruling body FIS decided to have women and men ski the same distances across the board. The longest women's race in the past was 30km and Hennig Dotzler insisted it should have stayed that way......

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