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The Norwegian dominates from the first to the last meter without ever allowing his opponents to have the slightest hope of bothering him.
Saturday 14 December 2019 3 minutes reading time
Party with 8 seconds ahead, in dowry from Sprint yesterday, Johannes Thingnes Boe transforms tries to chase a monologue staging a 20/20 to polygon always faced with speed and solidity. For a long stretch of the race the closest rivals to the Norwegian champion were his brother Tarjei, the Russians Loginov and Eliseev and one shining Lukas Hofer who in the central laps succeeded, once they settled just over 30 seconds from the leader, to maintain the rhythm.
Tarjei Boe loses contact from the quartet in the first session where feet must walk a round of penalty and in the fourth round, Johannes accelerates and with 5/5 on the top polygon writes an end; also Alexander Loginov places his 20/20 and flies towards the second final position at 33.5 seconds from the winner who easily faces the last lap. Eliseev missed once, Lukas Hofer wasted the enormous opportunity he had built with two missed targets.
Taking advantage of it, coming from the eighteenth starting position, is the twenty-four year old Frenchman Emilien Jacquelin who, with his fourth time on skis and no mistake at the shooting range, wins the first podium in his career at 40.5 ahead of Jakov Fak in the sprint and the second of Sprint, the French Simon Desthieux delayed by an error in the first session. And 'sixth Tarjei Boe while Lukas Hofer recovered a position in the last lap and is seventh in front of the three French musketeers Fabien Claude, Quentin Fillon Maillet and a Martin Fourcade appeared still late on skis. Dominik Windisch, who emerges unscathed only from the second polygon while he pays one round in the other three is twenty-first at 2''16 "
In the general classification of the World Cup, Johannes Thingnes Boe is clearly in command with 211 points and precedes Loginov (177), Desthieux (175), brother Tarjei (168) and Martin Fourcade (162). Lukas Hofer is ninth with 124 points.
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