Biathlon: Elvira Oeberg and the usual... Jacquelin are back in Annecy

It's Christmas and we should all be kinder but even at Le Grand Bornand some flops cannot be passed over in silence between sisters on the verge of a nervous breakdown and at least revisable landlords.

Tuesday 20 December 2022 7 minutes reading time

TOP Sturla Holm Laegreid (2. SP, 1. PU, 2. NS) - He is the winner of the French stage where he gnaws at a Johannes Boe who never gets off the podium by 30 lengths keeping open a Cup that could have already been closed . The squire, on the podium in the last seven races - this season he only missed it in the initial 20 km with a sixth place - and, also considering last season 10 times in the last 11 races held, he also obtained his first victory of the season in Annecy. What more can you ask him? Elvira Oeberg (8. SP, 1.PU, 4.MS) - Unlike her sister still looking for an author, the youngest of the Swedish sisters in Le Grand Bornand shrugged off some doubts and collected the first victory of the season as well as having won on points (174) in the French three-day event. where he missed just 3 standing targets out of 25 attempts and scored 100% on the ground. If we add to this the usual speed on skis, one can truly claim to have found Julia Simon's main challenger. Sophie Chauveau (4. SP, 8. PU, 5. MS) - The impact of the 23-year-old from Le Grand Bornand who arrived at home after only 4 World Cup races, served to take measurements, was impressive. The Savoyard proved to have a great pace on skis where she took the luxury, in the two races with a regular surface, to be faster than Elvira Oeberg and to be absolutely the fastest in the Mass Start. At the range he shot 92% with a 24/25 on the ground. We await confirmations. FLOP Emilien Jacquelin (13. SP, 30. PU, 14. MS) - The results of the first two stages with three podiums and a fifth place led to think that the twenty-seven year old from Isere, world champion in the last two occasions of the Pursuit , had finally found solidity and constancy by abandoning the genius and recklessness that has distinguished him in recent years, capable of great successes but also of profound disappointments. And right in the home stage, Jacquelin returned to hell: a percentage nails him, over the 3 days out of 50 targets faced at the range he hit only 38, a measly 76%, with a measly 14/25 in the sessions standing. "The more I think when I'm at the range, the worse I shoot", commented the Frenchman who in the two weeks of vacation will have to regain confidence in his shooting routine. Hanna Oeberg (22. SP, 25. PU, 16. MS) - The Swede had already been an uncomfortable guest of this section in the last episode and talking about it again seems a bit like shooting at the Red Cross but her involution seems endless. In Annecy his best result was a sixteenth place and he shot with 76% on the ground (19-25) and 84% on his feet (21-25) without making up for it at least partially on skis. An accurate coupon is urgently needed during the Christmas holidays, at least to put the World Championships in the sights French organization and Fischer - While conceding all the extenuating circumstances and a climate that went from snowfall to rain and then to frost, the organizers of Annecy for the Pursuits on Saturday made a completely mistaken preparation of the track which was transformed into a live ice snake worthy , perhaps, of an intercompany championship. Under these conditions the yellow skis, which in the previous days were at the feet of four of the top 10 in the men's Sprint and six of the top 10 and the entire podium in the women's, were literally not on the track in the Pursuit on Saturday. We saw Johannes Thingnes Boe walking on eggshells as if he were in a state of intoxication throughout the race and making up two minutes of gap on skis from his teammate Christiansen and in the women's field Denise Herrmann paying a minute and 15 seconds to Lisa Vittozzi. An awkward day.

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