Sandrine Bailly guide France to victory in a relay race full of reversals

Thursday & Igrave; Jan. 5, 2006 in Oberhof is held the women's relay, the first race of & rsquo; calendar year 2006 dedicated to the fairer sex. & Nbsp; Just like the day before the & rsquo; & egrave atmosphere; surreal and dreamlike because of dense fog and of & rsquo; lighting balloons with helium.

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The stage of Thuringia & egrave; battered by some absences cry. Of all that of Russian Olga Zaitseva that despite the & rsquo; good position in the standings, has decided to give priority to training ahead of the Olympic Games in Turin. The same choice & egrave; was also made by Albina Akhatova and from & rsquo; Italy. The Italian team, devoid of its athletes more & ugrave; strong, it does not take sides even at the start of today's race being present in Oberhof with a & rsquo; only woman. & Nbsp; The trial opens with difficult conditions. Fog & egrave; predominant and it is hard to see 50 meters, so shoot & egrave; overly complicated. & Egrave; Russia, in lonely head after launch, to make his mark in the early stages. The best Olga Pyleva of the season becomes the protagonist of a fraction authoritarian and off all rivals, handing the teammates a margin of half a minute on a trio led by hosts Germany, forced to chase due to a round of penalty payment agrave; suffered by Uschi Disl. Followed by France, with a Delphyne Peretto both precise in big difficulty & agrave; skiing, and l & rsquo; extemporaneous Canada for about a & rsquo; incisive Zina Kocher. Norway & egrave; fifth, but the gap & egrave; high and is around ten minutes. Tora Berger in fact had to travel twice & rsquo; ring penalty payment agrave ;, cos & Igrave; as Ekaterina Ivanova. Belarus then changes to a minute and a half. The second fraction overturns hierarchies. Svetlana Ishmouratova errs heavily to the ground (2 penalty loops for her) and is overtaken by other competitors. After the polygon standing Andrea Henkel also has to travel a ring agrave penalty payment; and leadership is inherited from the highly precise Florence Baverel-Robert. Germany and France to change & ograve; paired because & eacute; the transalpine extremely hard in the background, while the German flying on the snow where & egrave; grown. A & rsquo; impressive performance of Olga Nazarova, rapid for its standard of skiing and especially accurate, reports the Belarus third at 15 & rdquo; the leading duo. Russia & nbsp; & Egrave; fourth and & nbsp; slipped to 45 & rdquo ;, while Norway lost further ground with the Fallosa Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen. In the third village the fog becomes even more & ugrave; dense, further increasing the difficulty & agrave; shooting. Consequently reversals abound. Germany goes on the run after the shooting ground where Katrin Apel again after using only six bullets. Instead Sylvie Becaert must do a round of penalty payment agrave; and it is overtaken by Russia of the perfect Joulia Makarova. For its part Liudmilla Ananko saved in extremis from & rsquo; ominous ring and is raising our Belarus. Standing for & ograve; anything goes. Apel covers only three targets and have to turn twice, behind Makarova avoid a penalty payment agrave; with the & rsquo; last shot, while Becaert uses two refills. In the midst of this whirlwind Ananko invents a polygon unreal, firing resounding quickness & agrave ;, as if the fog did not exist, and gaining ground heavily on opponents instead stammering. Belarus therefore changes in the lead, chased to 13 & rdquo; from Germany and half a minute from Russia and France. Off playing the rest of the world. L & rsquo; & egrave last lap; an irresistible progression of SandrineBailly. & Nbsp; The transalpine you eat and the track starts to break down the delay from the peak. Even Kati Wilhelm, once resumed, can match the pace of the French and losing queues. The conditions at the range and improve not seen as disasters in earlier stages of the race. Bailly took the lead after the standing shooting, greets the company and across the finish line in triumph giving success to France and back to win a women's relay after almost three years. Piazza d & rsquo; honor for Germany, while the podium is completed by Belarus with Olena Zubrilova unable to respond to the twenty-six and twenty-nine of Belley Schmalkald. Russia, presented itself in restructured training concludes fourth Since & eacute; Olga Anisimova not have the pace to hold its own against more & ugrave; emblazoned opponents. OBERHOF & ndash; RELAY FEMALE 1. FRANCE [1 + 10] 1.22 & rsquo; 34 & rdquo; 3 2. GERMANY [4 + 15] 7 & rdquo; 1 3. BELARUS [2 + 11] to 19 & rdquo; 3 4. RUSSIA [2 + 11] in 1 & rsquo ; 04 & rdquo; 5 5. CHINA [2 + 21] in 1 & rsquo; 08 & rdquo; 5 6. NORWAY [5 + 18] 2 & rsquo; 25 & rdquo; 3 CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE RESULTS Â The program of the stage expected to January 6 repliest against the men's sprint and the women get back on track 7. It will not be & agrave; cos & Igrave; because & eacute; on the day of & rsquo; Epiphany will Oberhof & agrave; enveloped in a fog that will not allow & agrave; to see the targets. The race of men will come & agrave; therefore postponed and will be held two competitions on Saturday 7th.

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