{"id":612,"date":"2025-07-16T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vasaloppet.se\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=612"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:10:48","slug":"more-even-surface-on-the-start-hill-ensures-fairer-conditions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/vasaloppet.se\/en\/news\/more-even-surface-on-the-start-hill-ensures-fairer-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"More even surface on the start hill ensures fairer conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The goal of these improvements is to make overtaking easier during the first few kilometres \u2013 a change that elite cyclists in particular have requested.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">\u2013 In the elite group, the pace is high from the very start, and an ideal line often forms that&#8217;s faster than the others, explains Daniel M\u00e4kinen, Event Lead at Vasaloppet.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">\u2013 What we&#8217;re doing now is leveling the surface from the road crossing all the way up to the highest point. 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