Turin 2006. The 'Gold Anna Carin Olofsson and the' last round of "Turbo-displ" close the Games

25 February 2006 on the track at Cesana San Sicario biathlon program at the XX Olympic Winter Games ends with the women's mass start. The race marks the consecration of a failed cross-country skier successfully riciclatasi in biathlon and, above all, gives l & rsquo; last touching acute one of the historic landmarks of the discipline.

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When the stroke of the starter's gun '' off the competition, now it's snowing profusely from an hour and a half. The track then, & egrave; tough, and will not & egrave; difficult to predict that the biathletes with pi & ugrave; quality & agrave; on the narrow skis will be extremely favored by the context. The underdogs are thus all for the quartet of Kati Wilhelm, Anna Carin Olofsson, Uschi Disl and Sandrine Bailly. The rest of the competitors will have & agrave; remain at the window in the hope that they, in addition to being fast, they are also wildly inaccurate. What are the values â€‹â€‹in the field you can tell right from & rsquo; output of the first polygon. The pi & ugrave; younger of the two German, Swedish and French & ndash; all clean in pitch & ndash; They have gi & agrave; accumulated 17 & rdquo; ahead of all rivals, including veteran Teutonic, which for its part has made a mistake and lost contact from the leading trio. The second shot to the ground reduces to two the number of tread. In fact, only Wilhelm and Olofsson are precise, while Bailly missing a target and is pushed back. Hm time & egrave; perfect and returns to third place, about twenty seconds from Tandem in command. As it & ldquo; The Ten Little Indians & rdquo; the group (in this case of leaders) loses a piece at a time. In fact the third shooting session Scandinavian is zero again, while the twenty-nine of Zella-Mehlis miss the & rsquo; last target, slipping to 24 & rdquo ;. Even the Bavarian thirty-five finds himself traversing the & rsquo; ring penalty & agrave ;, from which comes the third, however, albeit at 47 & rdquo; from the summit. Fourth, nearly a minute, Martina Glagow. It, despite being unable to compete with skiing rivals, gains impressively thanks to the swiftness & agrave; in drop shots. Bailly instead committed two errors and definitely raises the white flag. In the fourth round Anna Carin stretches in an important way of Kati and presents all & rsquo; last polygon with more than half a minute margin. The Swedish non sends scored the third shot, but it manages to best the next two and limits the damage. Behind her, the German is zero and starts braking 10 & rdquo ;. The two pi & ugrave metals; precious are assigned, while in the race to step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium Martina & egrave; accurate and earn the third position with 14 & rdquo; ahead of Uschi, forced to go l & rsquo; penalty & agrave ring ;. There & rsquo; & egrave; fight for victory, since & eacute; Olofsson has the pi & ugrave; and winning the medal d & rsquo; gold in triumph. Incredible to think that only four years ago in Salt Lake City in 2002, conclude in the rear of the cross-country ski races! & Nbsp; shouldering the rifle l & rsquo; Sveg athlete has instead started a rapid growth path, consecrated by & rsquo; today happened to Five circles. the medal also d & rsquo; silver goes to whoever you & egrave; converted to biathlon. It should not be forgotten how Wilhelm, before morphing into full today biathlete, was a cross-country skier of good level in the second half & agrave; the years & rsquo; 90. The bronze medal & egrave; instead the prerogative of the woman who in Germany is nicknamed & ldquo; Turbo-displ & rdquo ;. In fact, with a final wrenching back the Bavarian veteran svernicia the three opponents out before her from & rsquo; last polygon, closing with a flourish his career in & rsquo; scope of the Games. Ursula, however, called & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Uschi takes the luxury of getting on the podium for the fifth time in as many Olympic participations. At the individual level it won the bronze medal in the 15 km of Lillehammer in 1994 and in the Nagano 1998 Edition & nbsp; where he also obtained the & rsquo; silver in the sprint, repeated again in 2002, before concluding with the & rsquo; today's third place. The golds came & ldquo; only & rdquo; in the relay, both in 1998 and in 2002, it came after the silver obtained in 1992 and 1994. All''alba 2016 displ & egrave; still biathlete to boast more & ugrave; Olympic medals both individually and globally. Also his performance & egrave; the best response to the luminary Uwe M & uuml; & szlig; iggang, who do not believed to & rsquo; height to participate in the relay race of two days before. Fortunately l & rsquo; German head coach to & agrave; treasure this tafazziana choice in view of Vancouver 2010, when & hellip; & Nbsp; Oh no. Four years after this illustrious thinker combiner & agrave; a & rsquo; another of his, excluding Magdalena Neuner by the quartet. Returning in Piedmont and to 2006, the & rsquo; unique blue race & ndash; Michela Ponza & ndash; It makes every effort and eleventh place. Because of the inequality of glory, in the women's field the Torino Games are not a real woman cover. For different reasons if they deserve all the four winners of the individual competitions. L & rsquo; only certainty & egrave; the total failure of Norway, which has disappointed every possible expectation. With the square of 'honor Wilhelm today takes another step towards the conquest of the Crystal Ball, since & eacute; You raise it at an altitude of 688 points, leaving their opponents to fight for the remaining two steps of the podium. Hm fact & egrave; second to 516, chased by Glagow (507), Olofsson (505), Bailly (491) and Ishmouratova (466). The next women's race & egrave; scheduled for March 9, at Pokljuka. POS | ATHLETE | NAT | SHOT | TIME 1 | OLOFSSON Anna Carin | SWE | 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 | 40: 36.5 2 | WILHELM Kati | GER | 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 | +18.8 3 | DISL Uschi | GER | 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 | +41.9 4 | Martina Glagow | GER | 1 + 0 + 1 + 0 | +57.1 5 | BAVEREL Florence | BETWEEN | 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 | +1: 04.0 6 | Olga Nazarova | BLR | 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 | +1: 14.0 7 | LIU Xianying | CHN | 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 | +1: 20.7 8 | Ekaterina Dafovska | BUL | 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 | +1: 32.9 9 | AKHATOVA Albina | RUS | 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 | +1: 43.0 10 | BAILLY Sandrine | BETWEEN | 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 | +1: 45.0 Â Click here for the full results.

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