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February 23, 2006 on the track of Cesana San Sicario biathlon program at the XX Olympic Winter Games provides for the women's relay, which, unlike the fireworks competition for men, no surprises and very little gives show. The only barrels are represented by forward-looking decisions made by Uwe M & uuml; & szlig; iggang the eve.
Tuesday 23 February 2016 17 minutes reading time
According to what we saw in the individual events Germany and Russia appear to have something in pi & ugrave; all other nations, while France and Norway are the most & ugrave; accredited in the race to step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium. The German training to memorize options & Egrave; very different from that expected Since & eacute ;, in a totally unexpected, the head coach Teutonic exclude Uschi Disl in favor of Katrin Apel.
The brilliant M & uuml; & szlig; iggang, I do not pay the resounding strategic mistake in the choice of the starting team for the sprint, he decides to provide all & rsquo; human race a new demonstration of his tactical acumen and his sagacity, explaining as follows l & rsquo; Excellent rejection:
& Ldquo; In truth I had already & agrave; decided right from the stage of Oberhof (played 6 weeks before, nda). As in the relay distance for women & egrave; only 6 kilometers, the good shooters are preferable to racers Since & eacute; on a pi & ugrave track; Short can not make a difference as usual. So Glagow and Henkel have been selected on the basis of their good performance at the shooting, cos & igrave; as Kati Wilhelm. Despite Katrin Apel is not the best shooter, I chose her instead & eacute; Hm because & eacute; Quest & rsquo; last & egrave; finished in a matter of penalty & agrave; both & ouml; stersund that in Oberhof & rdquo ;.
The reasoning of M & uuml; & szlig; iggang would not bat an eyelid if indeed the decision was to be taken from a shooting guard with difficulty & agrave; skiing and cross-country skier with a strong limits to the range. Too bad that in reality & agrave; the facts the situation is completely different.
Data in hand, in the current season displ is shooting with the & rsquo; 80.4%. Apel came on & rsquo; 81.2%. The difference between the two & egrave; thus amounting to a meager 0.8%! On narrow skis instead there & rsquo; & egrave; game, since & eacute; Uschi & egrave; much better by Katrin. In short, de facto l & rsquo; German head coach decides that in two equivalent athletes shooting & egrave; better deploy more & ugrave; slow in the bottom!
For more & ugrave; justifies the choice of saying & ldquo; Apel prefer to displ because & eacute; the second & egrave; finished in a matter of penalty & agrave; both & ouml; stersund that in Oberhof & rdquo ;. D & rsquo; Uwe agreement, but in Oberhof in the round of penalty & agrave; c & rsquo; & egrave; Apel also finished that, for most had already ;, & ugrave & agrave; path l & rsquo; ominous ring in Hochfilzen!
In other words, & egrave; true that the Bavarian thirty-five had to turn in two relay teams, but the same goes for the thirty-three of Thuringia! So WHY & rsquo; the laps of penalty & agrave; of displ are an issue and those of Apel no? Perch & eacute; Perhaps M & uuml; & szlig; iggang saw only those of Uschi and was eating a sandwich while the same thing happened to Katrin?
He said & ldquo; Last night I dreamed that we would have won the medal d & rsquo; gold and the quartet did not provide displ & rdquo ;, or & ldquo; I put Apel because & eacute; I prefer blondes blackberry & rdquo ;, or alternatively & ldquo; I usually quartets for the relay using the sticks and Shanghai yesterday that associated with displ & egrave; finished pi & ugrave; away from the other four & rdquo ;, would be equally delusional explanations, but at least they could not be disproved by the facts.
He justified his choice by saying & ldquo; & Tarap igrave; tapi to memorize options co! Prematurata supercazzola, or joking? Excuse them in four. As if it were also antani for her only displ, or even Apel Scrib & agrave; cchi confaldina? As a third fractionist, for example. Look at the & rsquo; displ index while shooting, you see my finger? You see that teases? That even premature? But then I could tell you, even with respect to Uschi, which also only two things as a matter of penalty & agrave ;, capita? & Rdquo; It would be a less absurd than that provided justification in reality & agrave ;.
Imagine yourself at a crossroads on a mountain road unknown to you. C '' & egrave; mist and you have to choose which way to go. Catch sight of a local man who is walking and ask about it. He responds to & ldquo; The left path & egrave; dangerous because & eacute; & Egrave; full of holes and curves that give often on a cliff without any protection. & nbsp; Even the right path & egrave; dangerous because & eacute; & Egrave; full of holes and curves that give often on a cliff, to memorize options at least on this side c & rsquo; & egrave; the guard rail & rdquo ;. You which option would you choose? You do realize that M & uuml; & szlig; iggang, for the relay in Turin in 2006, he decided to go left.
While there are still questions about what movie he saw quest & rsquo; man to choose & ndash; to Parity & agrave; Precision & ndash; the pi & ugrave woman; slow in the fund, and especially how it is that this sort of little cute Inspector Clouseau has decision-making power, the race begins. & Nbsp;
The launch says immediately carefully to Russia Since & eacute; a & rsquo; Anna Bogaliy sleek manages to pull all the enemy, changing in the head with a dozen seconds margin on the surprising Bulgarian Pavlina Filipova and German Martina Glagow, forced to use three refills (two pi & ugrave; the tread). Michela Ponza takes the luxury of giving the baton in fourth place, while the Belarusian Ekaterina Ivanova & egrave; fifth. The main news of the first segment of the race & egrave; represented by the huge difficulty & agrave; of Norway and France. Tora Berger finishes in & rsquo; penalty & agrave ring; after the shot to land and pays 1 & rsquo; 20 & rdquo ;, while Delphyne Peretto extremely suffers and gives 1 & rsquo; 40 & rdquo ;. & Nbsp;
In the second village Svetlana Ishmouratova does better than Andrea Henkel is on skis at the range, gaining about twenty seconds to & rsquo; attacking and bringing Russia to have 32 & rdquo; on Germany. While Bulgaria disappears from radar screens, Liv Grete Poir & eacute; and becomes the protagonist of the best performances of his Olympic Games in Turin bringing Norway in third place at 1 & rsquo; 08 & rdquo; by tread. Olga Nazarova maintaining height Belarus, fourth at 1 & rsquo; 16 & rdquo ;. Florence Baverel recovers positions, but lost further time as a result France fifth change to 1 & rsquo; 46 & rdquo; from the head and at 38 & rdquo; the medal. L & rsquo; Italy, with Saskia Santer without infamy n & eacute; praise, slipped to tenth place.
The third set proved decisive in the rat race. Olga Zaitseva and Katrin Apel are equal on skis. The Russian to memorize options & Egrave; perfect at the shooting range, while the German ends in & rsquo; penalty & agrave ring; after the standing shooting. ABOUT L & rsquo; WOULD NEVER TOLD! Fortunately, c & rsquo; & egrave; she instead & eacute; Uschi Disl because & eacute; at least in the fund can memorize options to eat the powder; & hellip ;. Ah no, & egrave; Bavarian that strong skiing. On the track, c & rsquo; & egrave; the pi & ugrave; slow the twin shooting. While the whole parterre laughs by Uwe M & uuml; & szlig; iggang, he has to thank to live in a civilized country, since & eacute; in other shores he would not have had time to see the sunset. Russia flies to the success changing with 1 & rsquo; 11 & rdquo; margin on Germany which, fortunately, has a very solid advantage over direct pursuers. Belarus, which in this segment has deployed Ludmilla Ananko, is competing in a race of great regularity & agrave; and & egrave; third at 2 & rsquo; 03 & rdquo; who leads the dances. Sylvie Becaert admirably performs its duty and gives witness to 2 & rsquo; 30 & rdquo ;, climbing a & rsquo; matte Gunn Margit Andreassen, fifth 2 & rsquo; 34 & rdquo ;. L & rsquo; Italy pays the chronic difficulty & agrave; standing at the range of Nathalie Santer and changes twelfth.
L & rsquo; last lap & egrave; purely academic. Too solid Albina Akhatova because & eacute; may squander a margin of more than a minute. Kati Wilhelm too far away to be able to catch up to the very accurate same age. L & rsquo; only reason d & rsquo; interest & egrave; the race for the pi & ugrave step; the bottom of the podium, which is called just outside un''opaca Linda Tj ø rhom. Olena Zubrilova did everything he could, but in the final lap has no way to respond to Sandrine Bailly, who for the & rsquo; umpteenth time in the current season shows off a monster performance in the relay and svernicia the pi & ugrave; experienced opponent.
Therefore, d & rsquo; gold medal for Russia, sensational shooting (just two refills used throughout the race!) And very competitive even on skis. L & rsquo; silver goes to Germany, suffers from & rsquo; inaccuracy dall & rsquo; inability & agrave; to make a difference in the bottom (except for Wilhelm) and the hallucinatory choices of his head coach. Bronze & egrave; solid France, while the positive Belarus had to settle for fourth place. However, continues l & rsquo; nightmarish edition of female Norway, fifth, and still fasts of medals in that of Turin. L & rsquo; Italy, with Barbara Ertl to close, floating in twelfth place until the finish.
Tomorrow rest day, while the program will close & agrave; 25 with mass start.
& Nbsp; TORINO 2006 & ndash; RELAY WOMEN 1. RUS [Bogaly, Ishmouratova, Zaitseva, Akhatova] (0 + 2) 1: 16 & rsquo; 512 & rdquo; 5 2. GER [Glagow, Henkel, Apel, Wilhelm] (1 + 8) at 50 & rdquo; 7 3. FRA [Peretto, Baverel, Becaert, Bailly] (0 + 8) 2 & rsquo; 26 & rdquo; 2 4. BLR [Ivanova, Nazarova, Ananko, Zubrilova] (0 + 8) 3 & rsquo; 07 & rdquo; 1 5. NOR [Berger, Poir & eacute ; and, Andreassen, Tj ø rhom] (1 + 13) at 3 & rsquo; 21 & rdquo; 9 6. SLO [Gregorin, Mali, Grudicek, Brankovic] (1 + 11) at 3 & rsquo; 43 & rdquo; 2. 8. ITA [Ponza, Santer S., N. Santer, Ertl] (3 + 9) 6 & rsquo; 30 & rdquo; 2
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