Turin 2006. From actor luxury Olympic champion, the triumph of Michael Greis in the 20 km Olympic

The '11 February 2006 on the track of Cesana San Sicario it opens the biathlon program at the XX Olympic Winter Games. It is staged the Men's 20 km, the race that is resolved with the triumph of a "luxury supporting actor" and in which the 'Italian dreams long medals.

Thursday 11 February 2016 13 minutes reading time

Being Olympic test the contingent of all nations & egrave; limited to 4 athletes. Some countries therefore need to make painful choices. Especially at home Germany head coach Frank Ullrich assures the place to Sven Fischer, Michael Greis and Michael R & ouml; sch, while the & rsquo; last bib is decided in the days before the race through a real internal playoff between Alexander Wolf and Ricco Gross. & Egrave; their quest & rsquo; last to tear the ticket for the competition at Five circles, while the twenty-seven of Oberhof & ndash; that only a month before wearing the yellow bib & ndash; & Egrave; forced to stay on the track. Between the superpowers have far less headaches Norway and Russia. Of course, remain outside the young Emil Hegle Svendsen, or men of the caliber Nikolay Kruglov and Sergei Rozhkov, they do speak the results and data in hand in both countries there are four more & ugrave competitors; qualified. & nbsp; Announcing a very long trial Because & eacute; the favorites are opting for different strategies. For example, the French and the Russians choose lower pectorals, unlike the Norwegians are opting to start with higher numbers. For their part, the Germans dilute its bearer. At the end of a rich competition twists & egrave; Germany that win the first medal d & rsquo; gold in Turin in 2006. The new Olympic champion of & rsquo; Individual & egrave; Michael Greis fact that, on the eve, was placed on the boundary line between the narrow circle of the favorites and the most & ugrave; wide outsiders. The Bavarian achieves a performance which & egrave; Since difficult to replicate & eacute; He takes a step sostenutissimo skiing and at the same time missing a single target. The two men can do better in the fund are wrong pi & ugrave; him and as a result no one can memorize options counter it. In the light of what is put on display during the & rsquo; current winter's success Greis not & egrave; hardly a surprise. Data in hand l & rsquo; Nesselwang athlete held the seventh grade pi & ugrave points; High circuit, resulting to memorize options by so many prestigious placings (seven times in the top six in ten races), with no claim. Even today's & egrave; only the second success of the twenty nine career of & rsquo; Ostallg Ã¤; u which, curiously, had won his only victory in its & rsquo; pre-Olympic Individual played in San Sicario on February 9, 2005. & nbsp; & nbsp; Same place, same format, a year later and Greis comes the day of grace and with it & rsquo; Olympic gold. It seems the consecration of a kind of luxury supporting actor in the bosom of a German team whose stars are veterans Sven Fischer and Ricco Gross, who at the 2006 Turin know averere l & rsquo; last opportunity & agrave; career to gain success in Five circles, and where picturesque Michael R & ouml; sch more catalyzes the 'attention. Today memorize options others Teutonic remain far from the podium. The first & egrave; rather opaque on skis and only concludes the seventeenth with three penalty & agrave ;. The second one relies on its accuracy, but a mistake in the closing preclude the glory and relegates him in eleventh place. The third, finally, not even arrives because bad day on the pitch. Are two rather missed targets that prevent the big favorite Ole Einar Bj Ã¸ rndalen to confirm the title won in Salt Lake City 2002. The Scandinavian has no rival in the fund, but must be content with the medal d & rsquo; silver 16 & rdquo; by Greis. At least thirty-two of the Simostranda & egrave; good at straightening his race by finding two polygons cleaned after missing the first two. For the bronze medal is staged a virtual duel between two veteran pulled a shiny. Finally the most ugrave & step; the bottom of the podium & egrave; occupied by thirty-six Norwegian Halvard Hanevold, shooting the author of a test as Bj Ã¸ rndalen, which in the final round can resist for only 8/10 the return of the thirty-nine Russian Sergei Tchepikov. Quest & rsquo; last seen fade in extremis the opportunity & agrave; to get back on the Olympic podium gi & agrave; trod in Calgary 1988, Albertville 1992, Lillehammer 1994! Fifth place for the big surprise of the day. Slovak Marek Matiasko, older brother of that Miroslav tutt & rsquo; activity & agrave ;, now dispute the so-called race of life and even touches a sensational medal at last failure due to an error at & rsquo; last shot. similar argument for Christian De Lorenzi, which has fascinated the & rsquo; Italy in a period in which the podiums were in short supply. The twenty-five Valtellina flirts with bronze before missing a target in close and settle in seventh place, just behind the Frenchman Julien Robert, l & rsquo; one of the 88 starters to achieve the shoot-out. Previously also Ren & eacute; Laurent Vuillermoz had whetted the blue fantasies. The Aosta Valley was even came out with the best time from the first polygon and had been in the running for the metals until the final session, where to memorize options three penalty & agrave; they do it to sink in twenty-fifth position. L & rsquo; Italy still put two men in the top ten Since & eacute; The thirty-eight-Wilfried Pallhuber bad start, but then climbs gradually up the slope to a prestigious ninth place. L & rsquo; committed blue last, Paolo Longo, is ranked fifty-fifth. Besides the gi & agrave; quoted Fischer, the great disappointment of the race & egrave; Raphael Poir & eacute; e. The French, still hunting the first Olympic gold of his career, appears opaque skiing and especially wrong too on the ground, concluding sadly twentieth. The two big losers remain in the top two of the overall standings of the World Cup (all & rsquo; era of the competitions of the Olympic Games had also value for the Crystal Ball). Poir & eacute; and in fact defended the yellow bib with 415 points followed by Fischer to 381. Greis is shown in third place with 379, bypassing R & ouml; sch stop to 376. Meanwhile Bj Ã¸ rndalen dates back to fifth place with 343 & hellip; & nbsp; & Nbsp; To Greis comes the icing on the cake Since & eacute; in addition to & rsquo; Olympic gold winning also the World Cup of specialty & agrave; dell & rsquo; Individual as the 20 km Today & egrave; Also l & rsquo; last season. The men will be back on track on February 14, for the sprint. Prior to memorize options will touch & agrave; women who February 13 will play their individual. POS | ATHLETE | NAT | SHOT | TIME 1 | GREIS Michael | GER | 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 | 54: 23.0 2 | Ole Einar Bjoerndalen | NOR | 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 | +16.0 3 | Halvard Hanevold | NOR | 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 | +1: 08.9 4 | Sergei TCHEPIKOV | RUS | 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 | +1: 7.9 5 | MATIASKO Marek | SVK | 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 | +1: 25.6 6 | ROBERT Julien | BETWEEN | 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 | +1: 36.4 7 | DE LORENZI Christian | ITA | 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 | +1: 41.0 8 | TCHEREZOV Ivan | RUS | 1 + 0 + 0 + 1 | +1: 42.7 9 | Wilfried Pallhuber | ITA | 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 | +1: 45.4 10 | Jay Hakkinen | USA | 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 | +1: 47.9 Â Click here for the full results.

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