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On 13 February 2006 in Cesana San Sicario opens the female biathlon program at the XX Olympic Winter Games. It is staged l & rsquo; individual, race that buries definitely a reputation of & ldquo; & rdquo eternal placed; and whose characteristics change podium after the award ceremony because of a doping case.
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The quota reduced to four pectoral compels Germany to & ldquo; & rdquo cut; athletes the likes of Katrin Apel and Simone Denkinger. The location of & rsquo; head coach Uwe M & uuml; & szlig; iggang & ndash; who opts to deploy Kati Wilhelm, Uschi Disl, Martina Glagow and Andrea Henkel & ndash; & Egrave; all things considered acceptable and relatively obliged.
Conversely it is surprising the decision of Russian technicians to leave at rest Olga Zaitseva in favor of the less quoted Anna Bogaliy-Titovets. Quest & rsquo; last will & agrave; essentially intangible, but little change because & eacute; Russia celebrates after the race a real triumph.
The medal d & rsquo; gold & egrave; In fact, the prerogative of the solid Svetlana Ishmouratova, all & rsquo; yet another granitic performance of its winter. The thirty-three of Chelyabinsk & ndash; undoubtedly among the pi & ugrave competitors; Listed on the eve & ndash; He realizes the sixth time on skis and commit a single error to throw in a day when a treacherous wind puts a strain on the accuracy of many favorites.
When its success is now unassailable, the veteran Siberian appears visibly moved. After all today staged a fairy tale & nbsp; or what could be the script for a movie. It should not be forgotten how Ishmouratova was forced to perform for years the part of & rsquo; eternal placed, he built something like 13 seconds and 8 third places (including one silver and one bronze world championship) before finally being able to establish itself in Brezno-Osrblie, just a couple of months before the race today, and then excel in more & ugrave context; prestigious exists, that of the Olympic Games.
Even the square d & rsquo; honor goes to a & rsquo; Russian expert, that Olga Pyleva. The thirty Krasnoyarsk missing a target in the opening, but later made three clean sessions and came in second place. Usual photos and awards ceremony in the evening, but there will be & agrave; glory to her.
Two days after & nbsp; in fact, the IOC announced that doping controls have revealed his positivity & agrave; to carphedon, a stimulant. L & rsquo; athlete is therefore disqualified, removed from the medal standings and private. Unlike so many doped, past present and future, not the Siberian screaming about conspiracies perjury innocent. He declares deeply ashamed and would withdraw.
In the days ahead we comprehend & agrave; as the situation is a real accident. In the weeks prior to the Olympic Games Pyleva he suffered from a & rsquo; inflammation in the ankle and to cure it had become prescribed by her primary care physician a drug that, according to the leaflet, should not contain any prohibited substance. In reality & agrave; the composition was quite different and l & rsquo; taking the medicine has had disastrous consequences.
In other words, there & egrave; willful misconduct in this case of doping and even the president of & rsquo; Ibu, Anders Besseberg, you spender & agrave; in person to defend the Russian who served his suspension, will return & agrave; in activities & agrave; and will participate & agrave; successfully in the Olympic Games of 2010.
L & rsquo; d & rsquo today's medal; silver then goes to Martina Glagow neck, initially third. German dispute a test along the lines of that of Ishmouratova, but make a mistake in pi & ugrave; which prevents it from fighting with the pi & ugrave; experienced opponent. Despite the disqualification of Pyleva, Russia square still two athletes on the podium Because & eacute; the bronze medal is awarded to Albina Akhatova, originally fourth.
The podium is not & egrave; hardly surprising, since & eacute; & Egrave; entirely made up shooters on a day in which more women racers & ugrave; Strong wrong way too.
Kati Wilhelm confirms its idiosyncrasy with the format of 15 km and, after a great start, ran into a debacle on the third range where it does not fit in the wind. Eventually accumulates 5 penalty & agrave ;, as many Anna Carin Olofsson and Uschi Disl who for their part are wrong too upright. The three most ugrave & women; rapids in the fund will then classify sixteenth respectively fifteenth and twelfth. & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
Instead sixth concludes with three missed targets Sandrine Bailly. Beyond the & agrave; the prestigious placement, the most & ugrave French fatigue; expected skiing and must give up yet once you get quell & rsquo; Olympic gold still absent from his trophy cabinet. The same goes for Liv Grete Poir & eacute; and ninth due to a triple error to & rsquo; last polygon after being found up to that time clean.
The final shooting session & egrave; Also the cross of Andrea Henkel, Olympic champion and world championship in charge of this format. German & nbsp; after three zero wrong twice in closing and remains at the foot of the podium, finishing just ahead of a & rsquo; athlete recently jumped to the headlines, even being activities & agrave ;. It is the Polish Krystyna Palka realizing the & rsquo; one shoot-out of the day and get a surprising fifth coin.
In discrete-performance home Italian Michela Ponza, seventeenth with two errors. The same performance shooting & egrave; created by Barbara Ertl, thirty-eighth. The sisters Saskia and Nathalie Santer rather err too, finishing the fifty-first and ciquantaduesima respectively.
Wilhelm is still widely in command of the overall standings of the World Cup with 559 points against the 445 of displ, 407 of Bailly, the 404 and 390 Glagow Olofsson.
For its part Ishmouratova celebrated twice Because & eacute; makes its also the specialty & agrave Cup; dell & rsquo; Individual despite having had to jump to Hochfilzen. The two successes in the two played 15 km are enough to get your hands on a legitimate small crystal ball. & Nbsp;
Now sprint to the space. The men will race on February 14, while women 16.
POS
|
ATHLETE
|
NAT
|
SHOT
|
TIME
1
|
ISHMOURATOVA Svetlana
|
RUS
|
0 + 0 + 1 + 0
|
49: 24.1
DSQ
|
Olga Pyleva
|
RUS
|
1 + 0 + 0 + 0
|
+45.5
2
|
Martina Glagow
|
GER
|
0 + 1 + 0 + 1
|
+1: 10.8
3
|
AKHATOVA Albina
|
RUS
|
1 + 0 + 0 + 1
|
+1: 30.9
4
|
HENKEL Andrea
|
GER
|
0 + 0 + 0 + 2
|
+2: 22.2
5
|
Krystyna Palka
|
POL
|
0 + 0 + 0 + 0
|
+2: 26.6
6
|
BAILLY Sandrine
|
BETWEEN
|
1 + 1 + 0 + 1
|
+2: 34.1
7
|
Olga Nazarova
|
BLR
|
2 + 0 + 0 + 0
|
+2: 35.5
8
|
LEVCHENKOVA Natalia
|
MDA
|
0 + 2 + 0 + 0
|
+2: 47.6
9
|
Liv Grete Poiree
|
NOR
|
0 + 0 + 0 + 3
|
+2: 57.9
10
|
LIDUMA Madara
|
LAT
|
1 + 1 + 1 + 1
|
+3: 03.1
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