Kati Wilhelm wins sapping Sandrine Bailly while Magdalena Neuner grazes the top ten

Kati Wilhelm trionfa fiaccando Sandrine Bailly, mentre Magdalena Neuner sfiora la top ten
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Kati Wilhelm wins sapping Sandrine Bailly while Magdalena Neuner grazes the top ten

January 21, 2006 in Anterselva is staged the 'women's pursuit that, at least in the top positions, turns into a kind of war of attrition between the two biathletes pi & ugrave; representative of the circuit of 10 years ago.

In the light of the outcome of the sprint we expect a new episode of the match between Kati Wilhelm and Sandrine Bailly. Indeed, the race will go & agrave; in this way, with the victory to be perpetually poised between them. The rest of the world instead limiter & agrave; to fight for placings also because & eacute; no one can & ograve; counteract the pace of German and French. The first polygon divides the torque Since & eacute; the Teutonic & egrave; perfect and the transalpine wrong, but the roles are reversed in the next session and the two find themselves together again. There & rsquo; & egrave; tactics in the duel, both giving background to his energy. Specifically & egrave; Wilhelm imposing a hellish pace, but Bailly not give one centimeter. The third polygon does not break the & rsquo; & eacute Because balance; both make a mistake, therefore the next round & egrave; a photocopy of the previous one with Kati in force to the maximum and Sandrine to answer after skating skating. & nbsp; All & rsquo; last shot fired in the two parallel and cover the first four targets. The French & egrave; the first to release the & rsquo; last shot, that & ograve; not going to sign. The German instead waits a few moments more & ugrave; and can achieve a clean session. The race is decided here, with Wilhelm to fly away towards the fourth win of the season, the thirteenth of his career, and Bailly to sail towards the square d & rsquo; honor. After the competition, with great sincerity & agrave ;, winner admits she felt relieved when & ndash; sharing the final polygon & ndash; he understood that & rsquo; the opponent was wrong because & eacute ;, after failing to pull it off, he could hardly keep her head in & rsquo; last lap. & nbsp; The step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; preserve for the third consecutive race of Albina Akhatova that thanks to & rsquo; another shoot-out right to the final shot of Liv Grete Poir & eacute; and, fourth at last. Incidentally the twenty nine year old Russian is holding a precision unreal. From & rsquo; s start & rsquo; calendar year 2006 hit 119 of 120 targets, and with the & rsquo; tracking today, & egrave; arrived in 10 consecutive sessions clean! & nbsp; & nbsp; Uschi Disl fifth, as always too foul pitch. Overall, Germany is currently enjoying a triumphant day Because & eacute; Piazza seven athletes in the first eleven positions! L & rsquo; last, should read the & rsquo; eleventh classified today & egrave; a certain Magdalena Neuner. & nbsp; The eighteen year old Bavarian touches the top ten at his fourth appearance in the World Cup and with a negative error would even meet the internal criteria to the German team to qualify for the Olympic Games. Will have & agrave; instead be content to participate once again at the World Junior, where it will be & agrave; Medal & rsquo; silver in the sprint (with 4 penalty payment agrave;) and medal & rsquo; gold in & rsquo; pursuit race where inflict & agrave; 2 & rsquo; 40 & rdquo; the runner-up and bronze in 4 minutes, or Darya Domracheva. Home Italian Michela Ponza (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) becomes the protagonist of a good recovery and concludes seventeenth, eighteen going up positions than that of departure. Outside the points instead Saskia Santer (0 + 2 + 2 + 2), thirty-fourth, Nathalie Santer (1 + 3 + 3 + 3), forty-second, and Barbara Ertl (1 + 1 + 2 + 1), forty-ninth. Wilhelm takes increasingly & ugrave; sail in the overall World Cup. At the halfway point of the season & egrave; yellow bib with 533 points. Behind him & egrave; Uschi Disl scope (382), taking advantage of & rsquo; absence of Anna Carin Olofsson, third at 375. Sandrine Bailly is fourth with 345 bypassing Svetlana Ishmouratova, fifth at 328. The program closes the stage 22 with the mass start. POS | ATHLETE | NAT | SHOT | TIME 1 | WILHELM Kati | GER | 0 + 1 + 1 + 0 | 33: 02.5 2 | BAILLY Sandrine | BETWEEN | 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 | +25.1 3 | AKHATOVA Albina | RUS | 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 | +52.0 4 | Liv Grete Poiree | NOR | 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 | +1: 27.5 5 | DISL Uschi | GER | 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 | +1: 50.6 6 | Martina Glagow | GER | 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 | +2: 01.7 7 | HENKEL Andrea | GER | 1 + 2 + 2 + 0 | +2: 36.0 8 | APEL Katrin | GER | 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 | +2: 36.6 9 | TJ & Ø Rhom Linda | NOR | 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 | +2: 47.5 10 | Simone Denkinger | GER | 0 + 1 + 2 + 2 | +2: 55.2  CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE RESULTS
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