Winter classics: skiers of MTsBK and MRMT fight for team leadership

A year ago in cross-country skiing of the republic there was a small revolution – athletes of the MTsBK team (Marbumkombinat) selected a palm at colleagues of the Mari radio mechanical technical school, having outstripped rivals in a team competition. It is "terrible" to think, but there was it after 24 years' (!) hegemony of MRMT, whose record the Mari skiers, probably, will not be beaten any more never. Fights between MTsBK and MRMT were developed meanwhile with a new force - on New Year's holidays in Volzhsk passed competitions of the first round of the new championship. Victories were won by four athletes: double as quite often happened before...