Huge Bjrndalen Ole Einar, 40 years after winning his seventh gold medal!

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There are more adjectives to describe Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. The Norwegian won the sprint of the Olympic Games in Sochi winning the seventh gold medal of his career, the fifth individual, and the third in this format after having already excelled at the 1998 Nagano and Salt Lake City in 2002.

Saturday 8 February 2014 6 minutes reading time

The forty Scandinavian has excelled in a race throbbing despite a mistake to throw up making a difference in the final round and especially in the times'' s performance at the shooting range where he won impressively over all rivals. Silver for'' Austrian Dominik Landertinger, immaculate pitch, the fastest of the lot'' in the last round, but had to bow down to 1 "to 3 BjÃ¸rndalen.'' The Austrian, never on the podium in the season, given Jaroslav Soukup, able to get an amazing bronze. The Czech, who had almost died in an accident on a mountain bike'' in August 2012, is the biggest surprise of the day and gave a huge disappointment to Russia hostess overcoming of only seven tenths Anton Shipulin. The Russian has paid an error in feet and above all, a collapse in the final kilometers. They were cleaning the favorites on the eve of Martin Fourcade and Emil Hegle Svendsen. Both have missed a target and were placed respectively in the sixth and ninth. Lingered the brothers BÃ¸, too Fouled shooting. Tarjei concluded Johannes Thingnes thirty-ninth and fifty-fifth. Shipulin aside evil Russians (Ustyugov 16 Â°, 27 Â° Garanichev, Malyshko 28 Â°). Too bad the Germans with Simon Schempp only fifteenth to be the best. Even worse has made the Swedish team where the best player was Fredrik LindstrÃ¶m's reach, however seventeenth. Instead, positive evidence of'' Austria, which combines the seventh Eder'' s silver Landertinger, the Czech Republic (bronze Soukup also came apart'' s eighth Ondrej Moravec) and Canada, with Jean Philippe LeGuellec fifth and thirteenth Nathan Smith. Even the Italian'' must be recorded among those who turned in a satisfactory race. Dominik Windisch has achieved the best performance of the season ending immediately before Lukas Hofer eleventh twelfth. Both have missed a target and have proven competitive to close in the first six squares. Further back Christian De Lorenzi, forty-seventh with 2 penalties, while the test was bad by Markus Windisch (2) of eighty-seven eighty-starters. SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - SPRINT MASCHILE1. BJÃ˜RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 +1) 24'' 33 "52. Landertinger Dominik [AUT] (0 +0) to 1" 33. Jaroslav SOUKUP [CZE] (0 +0) to 5 "74. Shipulin Anton [RUS] (0 +1) to 6" 45. Jean-Philippe Le Guellec [CAN] (0 +0) 9 "76. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (1 +0) 12" 47. EDER Simon [AUT] (0 +0) to 13 "78. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (0 +0) 14" 69. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +1) to 29 "310. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 +0) 33" 0 Click here for full results. Below are all the'' gold medals won by Ole Einar Bjoerndalen: NAGANO, 1998 - GOLD - SPRINTSALT LAKE CITY 2002 - GOLD - INDIVIDUALESALT LAKE CITY 2002 - GOLD - SPRINTSALT LAKE CITY 2002 - GOLD - INSEGUIMENTOSALT LAKE CITY 2002 - GOLD - STAFFETTAVANCOUVER 2010 - GOLD - STAFFETTASOCHI 2014 - GOLD - SPRINT In other words, with 7 Olympic gold medals Ole has led to a single length from the record of compatriot cross-country skier BjÃ¸rn DÃ¦hlie, arrived at 8. Among the records set by BjÃ¸rndalen, now with 95 wins (94 in 1 biathlon cross-country skiing) also to be the first athlete to win an over-40 competition of the first level (World Cup, World Cup, Olympics). Tomorrow at 15:30 we will award the title of Olympic women's sprint, men will be back on track Monday for the'' pursuit. Departure at 16:00.

Francesco Paone

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