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The Boe brothers lead Norway to yet another victory in a men's relay but, once again in recent weeks, Sweden is showing great growth. Germany is third.
Sunday 6 December 2020 4 minutes reading time
It is the Norwegian Sturla Laegreid (0 + 0), the Belarusian Labastau (0 + 0) and the German Eric Lesser (0 + 4) who dictate the law in the launch stage where the leading trio inflicts a ten-second gap to Doherty (0 + 0), Eliseev (0 + 1), the Austrian Komatz (0 + 2) and the Czech Mikyska (0 + 0). And further back (around the tenth position) Sweden with Femling (0 + 4), the blue Bionaz with a throw without infamy and without praise (0 + 2) closes at 54.8 while Emilien Jacquelin (3 + 3) risks compromise the ambitions of France, which is more than a minute late
In the second fraction Christiansen (0 + 2) and Rees (0 + 2) retain the lead for Norway and Germany, Benjamin Weger (0 + 0) drags Switzerland into third position in the middle of the race just 9.2 from the leading pair with ten seconds ahead of Ukrainian Pidruchnyi (0 + 1), Czech Moravec (0 + 0 =, Austrian Eder (0 + 1) and Russian Babikov (0 + 1). Lukas Hofer (0 +2) brings Italy back to eighth position at 34.4 from the top just ahead of Nelin's Sweden (0 + 3), while Simon Desthieux (0 + 1) struggles to recover the transalpine situation with the French sailing around the minute from the German-Norwegian train.
Tarjei Boe (0 + 1) tries to put a mortgage on the final victory by 24 seconds behind the German Arnd Peiffer (0 + 1) who is slower on skiing. Ponsiluoma (0 + 2) confirms his form by bringing Sweden on the virtual podium with the Swiss Finello (0 + 2) and the Russian Latypov (0 + 2) at 10 seconds, the Austrian Leitner (0 + 3) and a good Bormolini (0 + 1) seventh and eighth about a minute from Norway.
Johannes Boe gets stuck in the shooting where he has to resort to all three reloads allowing the rapprochement of Benedikt Doll and the halving of the disadvantage of an unleashed Sebastian Samuelsson who, however, suffers the law of Johannes Boe who re-stretches in the penultimate lap, uses a reload , and flies towards victory with Sweden, a recharge also for Samuelsson, who goes to take second place ahead of Doll (0 + 2).
On the finish line Boe (0 + 4) closes with a 39.2 advantage over Samuelsson (0 + 1) and 51.7 over Doll (0 + 2). The Russian Loginov (0 + 3) is fourth at 1.08.0 while a good Dominik Windisch (0 + 3) guarantees Italy the fifth position at 1.37.0 ahead of Austria (0 + 10)
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