The Norwegian has dominated the season and currently enjoys a 721-point lead with just 900 points left available.

She has won 17 races this season and is odds-on to win the overall title for the third time.

Doing so tomorrow at her home event would be an extra-special achievement for the 10-time world champion, who boasts an Olympic medal of each colour.

This season she has also won the Nordic Opening, Tour de Ski and Ski Tour titles but she missed the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics after serving a drugs ban.

Her nearest challenger in the overall women's standings is fellow-Norwegian Heidi Weng.

Sweden's Linn Svahn is the women's sprint leader and boasts just a 17-point advantage over Slovenia's Anamarija Lampič with 100 points available for a victory.

The 20-year-old could become the youngest skier, male or female, to claim a sixth World Cup victory across all events.

Jonna Sundling of Sweden is 63 points adrift of her compatriot in third while Norway's Maiken Caspersen Falla is fourth and 98 points back.

Falla, the Sochi 2014 Olympic sprint champion, won the last sprint race held this season in Trondheim last month and could win an eighth sprint race in Norway.

That would equal compatriot Marit Bjørgen's record for the most sprint wins in a single country, with the eight-time Olympic champion achieving it in Finland.

In the men's World Cup, Russia's distance specialist Alexander Bolshunov leads the overall rankings and enjoys a 465-point gap over Norway's triple Olympic gold medallist Johannes Høsflot Klaebo, the defending World Cup champion.

Klaebo is top of the sprint charts with a 64-point lead over compatriot Pal Golberg, the Ski Tour champion.

He has won each of the last 15 individual sprint World Cup events he appeared in, since an 11th-place finish in Lillehammer in November 2018.