Couple of hours until ladies 4x5 relay. Can only see 5 nations having a shot at medal in this one, those are Norway, Sweden, Finland, USA and Russia. If Norway is up there in the top group or close to after the first two runners they will be VERY hard to beat with Haga and Björgen with the last two runs.
If Sweden wants a chance at gold I think Nilsson needs to go out with a decent gap over Björgen, I don't think she will be able to keep the pace for 5km that Björgen will set up. And with the form Haga showed the other day I doubt that will happen
Norway: Ingvild Flugstad Östberg – Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen – Ragnhild Haga – Marit Björgen
Sweden: Anna Haag – Charlotte Kalla – Ebba Andersson – Stina Nilsson
Finland: Aino Kaisa Saarinen – Kerttu Niskanen – Riita Liisa Roponen – Krista Pärmäkoski
USA: Sophie Caldwell – Sadie Bjornsen – Kikkan Randall – Jessica Diggins
OAR(Russia): Natalia Neprayeva – Yulia Belorukova – Anastasia Sedova – Anna Nechaevskaya
Germany: Stefanie Böhler – Katharina Hening – Victoria Carl – Sandra Ringwald
Switzerland: Laurien van der Graaf – Nadine Faehndrich – Nathalie von Siebentahl – Lydia Hiernickel
Poland: Ewelina Marcisz – Justyna Kowalczyk – Martyna Galewicz – Sylwia Jaskowiec
Italy: Anna Comarella – Lucia Scardoni – Elisa Brocard – Ilaria Debertolis
Canada: Dahria Betty – Emily Nishikawa – Cendrine Browne – Anne Marie Comeau
Czech Republic: Katerina Berouskova – Karloina Grohova – Petra Novakova – Barbora Havlickova
Slovenia: Anamarija Lampic – Katja Visnar – Alenka Cebasek – Vesna Fabjan
France: Aurore Jean – Anouk Faivre Picon – Coraline Thomas Hugue – Delphine Claudel
Belarus: Anastasia Kirillova – Yulia Tikhonova – Polina Seronosova – Valiantsina Kaminskaya