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Word to the two great protagonists of the Italian biathlon even today, with the fourth and sixth place in the two Olympic pursuit races.
Sunday 13 February 2022 5 minutes reading time
Lukas Hofer was close to the podium, after having been in the positions that count throughout the Pursuit, which began in fourteenth position and finished in fourth, "seeing" the first individual medal of his career at the Olympic Games.
A masterful 20 out of 20 shooting for a result that can only be bitter; through the FISI press office, Hofer underlines the great performance made, but there is no lack of disappointment in his words. “The good performance remains, because finding zero today was not easy. I also found a good physical condition, the same as yesterday's Sprint. In the World Cup, fourth place means a good race, here only the wooden medal. There is a great disappointment of having touched the medal, which I have been looking for for a while now ”.
In the last lap, the Russian Latypov, after a moment of trouble, managed to hold on to the return of the blue biathlete, but Hofer turns the page looking forward. “I take the best to start again towards the next races. I started with a wonderful memory of a few years ago in Oberhof where, in similar conditions, I had hit four zeros and finished third. In the sprint I knew what I was getting into with that snow and I did a great performance since I was the first with the bib from 50 up ".
"Today I did everything possible, skiing with a lot of determination from the first to the last lap and unfortunately the little that denied me the podium was missing - concludes Lukas - Those who have followed the season know that between injuries to the shoulder, which will solving at the end of the season, and various health problems was the most important thing. I skipped Oberhof to regain condition, I still had some muscle problems here in China but now I'm happy to find the Lukas I know. Now we have to believe in it until the last race. The mass start will open a new book to be written, in which we will believe until the end and until the 'last meter'.
Dorothea Wierer experienced a different race in the development compared to her teammate, coming down from the third starting place, which then became the second after the two perfect ground polygons, up to the sixth final which can only leave regrets, also because today the champion blue had held up the pace on skis, at least in the first three laps. “It's a shame about the two errors at the shooting range in the third series, but I had problems loading because of the cold, everything was not very fluid. It was one of the hardest races of my career, I struggled a lot for the slow snow, but not only physically, especially psychologically.
Now there are two important races: relay on Wednesday and mass on Saturday. We have two days to recover, then we try to do our best ".
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