Ten years ago Germany wins the 'dream men's relay in Oberhof

Wednesday & Igrave; January 4, 2006 starts after the Christmas break the World Cup biathlon 10 years ago. In Oberhof is staged (in a & rsquo; surrealist setting) the men's relay, the first race of & rsquo; calendar year 2006.

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On the eve of the stage comes a story that seems to change the tables in the race to the World Cup. Ole Einar Bj Ã¸ rndalen fact & egrave; sick and renouncing trip to Thuringia. The holder of the Crystal Ball, gi & agrave; absent by choice from the previous stage of Osrblie, will & agrave; then forced to chase from a distance in the standings. L & rsquo; & ograve aim for; not currently & egrave; Because in the foreground & eacute; & Egrave; subordinate the Olympic Games in Turin, which lacks a little over & ugrave; of a month. Just ahead of the event in five circles even Raphael Poir & eacute; and emphasizes training and decides to show up in Oberhof exclusively for the mass start Sunday, deserting the & rsquo; today's team trial and sprint Friday & Igrave ;. The relay is held so without two of the main protagonists of the men's tour. Absent also the & rsquo; Italy for lack of human resources. The blue team & egrave; This in Thuringia in lower ranks with only two men Since & eacute; he left much of his team to train at home. As said earlier the & rsquo; & egrave setting of the race; Because surreal & eacute; competition in the late afternoon and fog & egrave; thick. Even along the route are indispensable to helium balloons illuminated that help make the dream & rsquo; atmosphere. On balance the relay today seems, for many aspects, a photocopy of one of Hochfilzen. Just as it happened less than a month before the launch & egrave; immediately fatal to Norway. Frode Andresen & egrave; victim of a debacle at the shooting stand by what comes out only after traveling twice & rsquo; ring penalty payment agrave ;. The Scandinavian team then finds himself immediately in a minute of detachment from the head. The first change & egrave; the hosts Germany, which ranks a good Ricco Gross, and a good Czech Republic in which shines the young Ondrej Moravec. For the time being remains at altitude France, represented by Julien Robert, before a surprising Finland. Instead steal the & rsquo; eye Russian Sergei Rozhkov and the Belarusian Alexei Aidarov. The two are forced to resort to some of charging too much and give several seconds to the summit. However the second half heavily shuffles the cards because & eacute ;, just like in Hochfilzen, Alexander Wolf mulls shooting and ends with the & rsquo; ring penalty payment agrave ;. The command of the operation then goes to Russia, thanks to a superb performance by Pavel Rostovtsev, who joins a large Czech Republic where Michal Å lesingr confirms the good done in December. Germany slipped to third place in about thirty seconds from the tread and is joined by Belarus thanks to a solid Sergei Novikov. Fifth & egrave; Sweden, but it will pay more than a minute and not especially close potr & agrave; make his usual recovery being deprived of Carl Johan Bergman. Leaves the scene France Since & eacute; Alexander Aubert ends within agrave penalty payment; cos & Igrave; as Emil Hegle Svendsen, unable to recover. The third stage sees Russia remain alone in the lead Since & eacute; Ivan Tcherezov off a praiseworthy Roman Dostal. Czechs pay a dozen seconds, but behind them Germany roars. Sven Fischer fact gnawing something leaders and changes to 23 & rdquo; from the summit. Instead it loses contact with Belarus Vladimir Dratchev rather opaque and now in trouble & agrave; in the race for the podium. The closure is similar to that of Hochfilzen. Michael Greis eat and track comeback with arrogance Nikolay Kruglov. German uses a single charge on the ground, where instead the Russian saved in extremis from & rsquo; ring penalty payment agrave ;. The Bavarian then flies to the command. Wobbles the standing shooting, but closes the & rsquo; last target with the charging end and flies accordingly to success while the & rsquo; & egrave opponent; still he is struggling with the polygon. Germany therefore triumphs at home with Russia relegated to second place. The step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium goes to Belarus, not so much by the merits of Oleg Ryzhenkov, as for suicide sports Zdenek Vitek. Czech non-IS It never has been solid standing but now combining original disaster by sending to sign only two of the eight bullets. Three rounds of penalty payment agrave; which put the Czech Republic in a & rsquo; bitter fourth place just in front of the & rsquo; Austria. Norway abandoned a sixth, more than three minutes, while France concludes seventh. Tomorrow & egrave; program in the women's relay, while men should get back on track on January 6 (but not sar & agrave; cos & Igrave;). OBERHOF & ndash; RELAY MEN 1. GERMANY [1 + 13] 1.25 & rsquo; 19 & rdquo; 8 2. RUSSIA [0 + 11] to 32 & rdquo; 2 3. BELARUS [0 + 14] to 36 & rdquo; 6 4. CZECH REPUBLIC [3 + 9] 1 & rsquo; 56 & rdquo; 4 5. AUSTRIA [0 + 10] 2 & rsquo; 06 & rdquo; 6 6. NORWAY [4 + 18] 3 & rsquo; 18 & rdquo; 6 CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE RESULTS

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