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The first phase of the World Cup biathlon & egrave; time to make un''analisi initial yield of various nations. A dust has settled and cool head is discovered as the 'Italian biathlon is going worse than twelve months ago.
Thursday 24 December 2015 6 minutes reading time
Of course, in the women's team blue & egrave; He returned to victory after nearly 16 years thanks to Dorothea Wierer and, at the same time, & egrave; came the historic success in the relay in Hochfilzen. Results that have rightly had great media coverage, but behind which lies a budget in the red.
Let's start by women. Adding all the points scored in the World Cup so far we are known as the 'Italian he has accumulated 540 and is the fifth nation. The fact & egrave; which last year had 664 points and the 'Italy was the fourth nation.
Federica Sanfilippo & egrave; the 'only athlete to have collected more than & ugrave; in December 2015 compared to December 2014. The twenty-five of Ridnauntal has in fact put together 111 points against 0. Policewoman South Tyrol represents & ograve; & Egrave; the 'exception set in a team globally worsened.
It does not seem, but even Dorothea Wierer had (slightly) better twelve months ago. The twenty-five year Financial Rasen-Antholz & egrave; dropped from 280 to 270 points, playing also a race in more & ugrave; compared all''anno past.
Pi & ugrave; heavy regression of Karin Oberhofer, increased from 262 to 155 points, and a big difficulty in Nicole Gontier & agrave; It is having fallen from 105 to 0. Even Lisa Vittozzi, that by virtue & ugrave; the young et & agrave; It has big room for improvement, & egrave; safe from 13 to 4 points.
The scenario proposes very similar in the men's field. Overall, the 'Italy was the tenth nation and & egrave; remained so, seeing reduced to & ograve; his points 217 to 186.
The 'exception, namely the' only athlete to have a positive balance, & egrave; represented by Christian De Lorenzi. The veteran Valtellina has collected 28 points, while in 2014 he had not yet obtained any.
Dominik Windisch has curiously played a first half of the season connotations similar to those of the past: you're in forty & nell''individuale of Öland; stersund, four tough races, and then well in all tests Pokljuka. The points for & ograve; I fell from 102 to 87.
Negative Lukas Hofer, regressed from 93 to 71 points, and Thomas Bormolini, passed 22 to 0.
For now, then, c '' & egrave; a deterioration in both areas, with 7 of 9 athletes in red against only one true "big improvement".
We'll see how evolver & agrave; the situation in the coming weeks. Certainly for the 'Italy c' '& egrave; space to bring the budget into a positive.
For a start last year was deserted stage of Nove Mesto and this season & egrave; inserted a race in more & ugrave ;. Also, in the men, Windisch and Hofer made a lot of effort after a decent start and among women in Wierer enough to keep the 'current average points to improve what was done in 2014 -' '15.
TOP 10 POINTS FEMMINILI1374 - GERMANY (+600 pts, = pos) 861 - CZECH REPUBLIC (+309 pts, +4 pos) 712 - UKRAINE (+187 pts, +4 pos) 629 - FRANCE (-48 pts, -1 pos) 540 - ITALY (-124 pts, -1 pos) 514 - NORWAY (+104 pts, +3 pos) 432 - POLAND (+122 pts, +3 pos) 357 - RUSSIA (-379 pts, -6 pos) 294 - BELARUS (-281 pts, -4 pos) 292 - FINLAND (-180 pts, -2 pos)
TOP 10 POINTS MASCHILI1177 - NORWAY (+48 pts, = pos) 1161 - FRANCE (+341 pts, +2 pos) 1087 - RUSSIA (+116 pts, -1 pos) 1031 - GERMANY (+150 pts, -1 pos) 475 - AUSTRIA (-125 pts, = pos) 298 - UNITED STATES (-4 pts, +2 pos) 271 - Canada (+132 pts, +7 pos) 238 - CZECH REPUBLIC (-264 pts, -2 pos) 238 - UKRAINE (+76 pts, +4 pos) 186 - ITALY (-31 pts, = pos)
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