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On 16 February 2006, at the XX Olympic Winter Games, will contest the women's sprint for a variety of circumstances is completely outside the box. The race, as exciting as crazy, is resolved with an absolutely unpredictable outcome.
Tuesday 16 February 2016 17 minutes reading time
Between the superpowers they notice a couple of changes in weight compared to & rsquo; individual. Germany from & rsquo; space Katrin Apel, leaving at rest Andrea Henkel despite the fifth place three days before. Russia instead excludes the & rsquo; impalpable Anna Bogaly-Titovets to deploy well-pi & ugrave; listed Olga Zaitseva.
Pi & ugrave; choices, held the bank strategies. According to the weather the race will begin & agrave; under a heavy snowfall, designed to memorize options to become extinct in the early afternoon. The departure & egrave; scheduled for noon, but no one can memorize options predict how soon the snow smetter & agrave; falling.
So it could be that all the proof you repliest against the sky to download the flakes then open up to hostilities & agrave; finished, or it could happen that the & rsquo; event occurs when the athletes are still on track. In the first case would be advantaged women with pi & ugrave pectoral; downs. In the second they would instead competing games later to find more & ugrave conditions; favorable.
In the light of & rsquo; uncertain situation, the various technical staff decide to enter their athletes in the second or third starting group. L & rsquo; exception & egrave; Germany Uwe M & uuml; & szlig; iggang that, on the contrary, is betting on the continuing snowfall and opts for the first group.
In other words, the & rsquo; German head coach dares the most & ugrave choice; risky absolute and above all demonstrates a strategic vision that does not go beyond their nose. & Egrave; l & rsquo; only one with four medal cards available and then only afford a diversification of the starting groups, but instead & eacute; dilute their resources to concentrate in one place. L & rsquo; outcome, as we shall see, sar & agrave; disastrous.
So in proximity & agrave; the way l & rsquo; uncertainty reigns supreme because of the weather. To top it off a few minutes before departure it adds a new element unusual. The package comes news of Olga Pyleva, about which the Russian Federation does not make any explanation. During the race you sparger & agrave; the voice of a failed doping test from the thirties of Krasnoyarsk, with its disqualification from the 15 km finished in second place and the consequent withdrawal of the coin. & nbsp; The rumors will prove to be founded, and the confirmation about arriver & agrave; in the evening. Only later they will understand the characteristics of the case-Pyleva, gi & agrave; extensively examined in & rsquo; article related to & rsquo; individual.
Intanti the weather situation improves rapidly and soon the environment becomes more & ugrave; favorable. Gratefully acknowledges the draw poor Uschi Disl that in addition to wrong three times, partly with the number 3 and & egrave; so brutally penalized. The German veteran & ndash; still looking for his first Olympic gold & ndash; finish & agrave; even out of the points, seeing compromise even the & rsquo; tracking.
Despite the insane choice of Uwe M & uuml; & szlig; iggang, the lot limits the damage for Kati Wilhelm. The leader of the overall standings of the World Cup kicks off among the last of the first group, only five minutes earlier than Anna Carin Olofsson instead & egrave; among the first of the next echelon. & Nbsp; The Swedish returns to dominate the Teutonic on skis for the first time since December, and both make a mistake.
Under normal conditions, both would have been certain of a medal, but today the situation & egrave; constantly evolving Because & eacute; the track is clearly accelerating. In particular the French Sandrine Bailly and Florence Baverel are keeping a good pace. Especially the first is literally flying despite having missed a target on the ground. & Nbsp;
The twenty-six of Belley to memorize options also wrong standing, while more & ugrave; experienced and less noble teammate is zero exiting the polygon with 16 & rdquo; Margin of Olofsson. The thirty-one of Pontarlier & egrave; a renowned marksman, but not & egrave; certainly famous for its quality & agrave; on narrow skis. In fact, in the final round split times show that is paying duty than the Scandinavian.
Before you even tell if the transalpine riuscir & agrave; to defend the advantage, Albina Akhatova and Olena Zubrilova covering in turn all targets. In particular, the first boasts several seconds ahead of a Baverel that in & rsquo; last lap you are defending very well.
The French crossed the finish line while maintaining a slender lead of Olofsson, spodestandola from leadership. Even have time to turn around to look up the Russian and Belarusian which the polygon comes news of a sensational zero-Vaygina Lilia Efremova. L & rsquo; Ukrainian, historically Fallosa shooting, now lives a day of grace in the pitch and does not miss anything entering incredibly fighting for medals.
For Akhatova seems made, however, the plot twists are not finished. The twenty-nine of the Vologda & egrave; in fact the victim of a steep fall in the last kilometers. Meanwhile Zubrilova struggle, but does not recover sufficiently, while Efremova holds.
Pi & ugrave; that a race & egrave; pandemonium. When the waters subside emerges a & rsquo; incredulous Florence Baverel, which puts a d & rsquo; gold medal that has the sensational neck. Before today in fact the Alps had risen 10 times on the podium, never to memorize options the pi & ugrave step; high, occupying five times the square d & rsquo; honor and in as many third.
Nell & rsquo; today's sprint instead in order that all fits & eacute; for her to be the best. The result has also a historic Because & eacute; It allows her to become the first & ndash; and tutt & rsquo; unique & ndash today; French biathlete able to win an individual Olympic gold.
On paper, that role would have to be of & rsquo; awaited Bailly, who instead must sit in sixth place, beaten 11 & rdquo; 6 by compatriot. With hindsight the sprint Turin 2006 & egrave; the great opportunity wasted by & rsquo; Rh & ocirc athlete; ne-Alpes to establish itself in the context of a Five circles. In this race Sandrine & egrave; literally a rocket and is scoring by a wide margin the fastest time on skis, but the two penalty & agrave; that preclude the Olympic success that Mancher & agrave; for ever in his career.
Four athletes are caught between the two transalpine in a test where the gaps are really minor. The medal d & rsquo; silver goes to Olofsson, beaten 2 & rdquo; 4. Sweden can memorize options cursing a mistake on the ground and an enemy draw (was playing with a lazy & ugrave; high number, his performance in the fund would have been even better) and still get a result of absolute prestige certifying that it has become biathlete of scream after failing as a distance runner.
The bronze medal & egrave; incredibly preserve of Vaygina-Efremova, on which the eve would not even bet his parents. Yet l & rsquo; Ukrainian & ndash; detached 6 & rdquo; 6 from & rsquo; equally unlikely winner & ndash; is the most & ugrave; classical & ldquo; the race of life & rdquo; the day where the stakes & egrave; high and in which the good fortune l & rsquo; no small advantage.
Fourth, 8 & rdquo; 8 from the first position, a very disappointed Akhatova. It can not memorize options enough awareness to receive the bronze of & rsquo; individual in virt & ugrave; the disqualification of Pyleva alleviate the & rsquo; bitterness for a success and a shaded podium only in the final round.
Fifth at 9 & rdquo; 1 Olofsson and 2 & rdquo; from 5 l & rsquo; expert Bronze Zubrilova for which the Olympic podium remains bewitched despite being one of the most & ugrave biathlete; winners of all time. Wilhelm eventually closes seventh, 18 & rdquo; 4 from the head. L & rsquo; tracking promises to be extremely uncertain and spectacular.
Italy comes in the house a good performance by Michela Ponza (0 + 1), which is ranked 13th. In addition, for the first time this season, Nathalie Santer (1 + 1) enters into the points and finished 26 ^. Pi & ugrave; lingered Katja Haller (0 + 1) and Saskia Santer (2 + 1), respectively 53 ^ and 57 ^ and least qualified for the & rsquo; tracking.
Wilhelm, despite the disappointment at the lack podium, extends again in the general classification of hoisting the World Cup at an altitude 592 points and putting the conquest of Crystal ball on ice. Hm, second, he remains at 447, seeing himself approached by Bailly (443) and Olofsson (437) with Glagow fifth at 421.
Tomorrow rest while 18 February happening both pursuits.
POS
|
ATHLETE
|
NAT
|
SHOT
|
TIME
1
|
BAVEREL Florence
|
BETWEEN
|
0 + 0
|
22: 31.4
2
|
OLOFSSON Anna Carin
|
SWE
|
1 + 0
|
+2.4
3
|
VAYGINA-Lilia Efremova
|
UKR
|
0 + 0
|
+6.6
4
|
AKHATOVA Albina
|
RUS
|
0 + 0
|
+8.8
5
|
ZUBRILOVA Olena
|
BLR
|
0 + 0
|
+9.1
6
|
BAILLY Sandrine
|
BETWEEN
|
1 + 1
|
+11.6
7
|
WILHELM Kati
|
GER
|
0 + 1
|
+18.4
8
|
Olga Nazarova
|
BLR
|
0 + 0
|
+21.8
9
|
Olga Zaitseva
|
RUS
|
0 + 0
|
+34.4
10
|
ISHMOURATOVA Svetlana
|
RUS
|
0 + 1
|
+38.9
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