Biathlon: the men's relay speaks Norwegian, Italy eighth

Bakken, Tarjei Boe, Johannes Boe and Christiansen dominate the first team test of the season on a France that pays heavily for Jacquelin's unfortunate second fraction.

Saturday 4 December 2021 4 minutes reading time

It is Norway, Germany and France to be seen in the launching leg of the first men's relay of the season with Bakken (0 + 0), Lesser (0 + 0) and Fabien Claude (0 + 2) arriving together at the first change with 14 seconds on Khalili (0 + 3) and Krcmar (0 + 1). Thomas Bormolini (0 + 4) closes the fraction in tenth place at 33.6. Jacquelin does the devil four on skis but wastes in the polygons and takes advantage of it Tarjei Boe (0 + 1) who takes Norway in the lead halfway through the race with 4.0 on Pidruchnyi (0 + 0), 19.7 on the Russian Serokhvostov (0 + 2) , 31.2 on an excellent Giacomel (0 + 1) with Simon Eder (0 + 1), Jacquelin (0 + 5) and the German Rees (0 + 2). Johannes Boe flies in the third stage where he does not use any recharge and the Russian Loginov tries to keep his pace (0 + 0); in the first polygon one too many reloads does not allow Lukas Hofer (0 + 2) to remain in the wake of Desthieux (0 + 1). At the last change Norway have 21 seconds over Russia, 50 over France, and one minute and 20 "over Doll (0 + 2), Hofer and the Ukrainian Tsymbal (1 + 3). The ground session of the last lap does not change the situation of the first three positions while a 5/5 by Nawrath launches Germany with 25 seconds on Dudchenko (0 + 2) and Windisch (0 + 3) is saved who finds himself at 1''40 ". Christiansen (0 + 3) calmly leads the Norwegian battleship into port while Latipov (1 + 3) turns, leaving second place to Fillon Maillet (0 + 0). Two rounds of penalty for Windisch (2 + 6) ) push Italy behind with the fourth place of Nawrath (0 + 1), the fifth of the Ukrainian Dudchenko (0 + 3) and the sixth of the Belarusian Smolski (0 + 0). On the finish line Norway (0 + 4) is imposed with 11.2 ahead of France (0 + 8) and 45.9 over Russia (1 + 9). Germany is fourth (0 + 6) at 1.07.8, Ukraine fifth at 1.28.5 (1 + 6), Belarus sixth (0 + 11) at 2.07.5, Sweden seventh (1+ 15) with Samuelsson jumping Windisch for an eighth Italy (2 + 13) at 2.31.0-

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