Emil Hegle Svendsen resurrects his'' s mass start with the thrill of the gold in the final

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Emil Hegle Svendsen, finally comes to materials'' s height of the situation, has finally managed to be competitive for the top positions and has overturned the balance of its Olympic Games by winning the gold medal'' in the starting line.

Tuesday 18 February 2014 6 minutes reading time

Constant reversals have occurred in the first three laps and the race has taken on a physiognomy well defined only after the third polygon. Svendsen and Ondrej Moravec, the perfect shot, found themselves at the top with a small margin of advantage over rimontanti Martin Fourcade and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, authors respectively of one and two errors in the first session, but clean for the next two. During the fourth round of the four have closed ranks and reached the final polygon together. The younger of the two Norwegians, French and Czech have covered all the targets, while the forty Scandinavian went wrong four times in a crisis, coming out as a result of the fight for the medals and then close the twenty-second. '' In the last round Svendsen was the absolute protagonist. The twenty-eight Trondheim attacked uphill, mowing Moravec, and then have reason to Martin Fourcade even before the final straight at the end of which he rejoiced too early, risking a blatant mockery as the French did not give up and split in grazed shot Hunchback. Naive final aside, Svendsen today was the best athlete of the lot and deserved the'' gold, the second of his career in a race to five circles, by virtue of perfection shooting (20 of 20 overall) and excellent reading tactics of the competition. Moreover, with this success silences in the best way all those who had hastily and unfairly criticized after the'' pursuit. Silver for Martin Fourcade, again according to the starting line after the Olympic plaza d'' honor of Vancouver. The transalpine paid extremely'' s only mistake of the day, but has picked up his fourth podium in five circles of his career. Ondrej Moravec won the bronze, her second medal in Sochi in 2014, confirming one of the strongest athletes in the circuit. Far away from all the other medals. Consider that the fifth-ranked Evgeny Garanichev (again the best of the Russians), has paid nearly a minute. It should be remarked, however, the'' good race Slovenian Jakov Fak fourth despite two penalties. Male hand with the German Simon Schempp, thirteenth, to be the best-placed. Day-no for Italians. Dominik Windisch was wrong five times and finished twenty-fifth. Even withdrawn instead Lukas Hofer, stopped after the third polygon, when he was in the back after committing four errors in the ground. SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - MASS START MASCHILE1. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +0 +0 +0) 39'' 54 "92. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (1 +0 +0 +0) 0" 03. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (0 +0 +0 +0) to 13 "84. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 +1 +1 +0) 28" 15. GARANICHEV Evgeniy [RUS] (0 +1 +1 +1) 56 "26. LINDSTRÃ–M Frederik [SWE] (0 +1 +0 +1) to 1'' 01" 47. Dominik Landertinger [AUT] (1 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 03 "78. BÃ˜ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (1 +0 +0 +0) 1'' 08" 59. GREEN Brendan [CAN] (1 +1 +0 +0) 1'' 09 "210. LEGUELLEC Jean Philippe [CAN] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 12" 5Clicca here for full results. The individual races are over, now space to relays. Tomorrow, at 15.30, the Joint Committee. The women's relay on Friday 21, Saturday 22 while that of men.

Francesco Paone

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