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The men's relay, conclusive evidence of the program's biathlon competition proved to be very balanced and extremely exciting time to be solved'' s last polygon where four teams came together in race for the gold''. However, after the first half things seemed destined to go in a much different.
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In fact, the brothers Bø became the protagonists of two major fractions launching Norway in the head with a margin of between 20 and 30 seconds on all the most dangerous opponents. However, the Scandinavian quartet has been betrayed by the two men who most excelled in Sochi 2014.
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has experienced the worst day of skiing close all of its Olympic Games since, despite evidence to the perfect shot, he was joined by Arnd Peiffer and lost ground by Simon Eder and Dmitry Malyshko.
In the beginning of the last lap Emil Hegle Svendsen and Simon Schempp did not force the pace allowing the tandem-Shipulin Anton Dominik Landertinger to move closer and then engage after a shooting on the ground a little selective.
Russia, Germany, Norway and Austria are then presented to the group in the final shot. Schempp and Shipulin were the only ones to cover all targets, Landertinger has instead had to use a slower charging and firing has missed the train to the'' gold. Svendsen has done much worse, even ended up in the penalty loop. In the final twenty-six to twenty-five of the Tyumen controlled Mutlagen and then overcome it easily in the sprint.
So gold medal for Russia'' composed by Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov, Dmitry Malyshko and Anton Shipulin. In fact, this should be considered the'' last'' MVP of the day, it is therefore a great redemption after the disappointment of the sprint closed in fourth place for a few seconds with an error'' on their latest target.
It is, however, a heavy gold for Russia. Primarily because after the dissolution of the Soviet Union'' was never a success arrived at Five circles in the men's relay, and secondly because it avoids the biathlon close without success in the Olympic Games of the house and thirdly because it allows the country organizer to launch towards the success of the overall medal in Sochi 2014.
'' Silver medal for Germany composed by Erik Lesser, Daniel Böhm, Arnd Peiffer (now awesome) and Simon Schempp. For the Germans, able to make the most of their potential, a ray of Sun after Black Friday with the positivity of Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle.
L'' Austria formed by Christoph Sumann, Daniel Mesotitsch, Simon Eder and Dominik Landertinger has collected the bronze medal proving once more training extremely solid and hard to beat. It should be noted, however, as the quartet is the same for Vancouver 2010 with two athletes born in 1976 and now nearing retirement. The future, at least in the team events, so it is rather nebulous.
Great disappointment of the day Norway encasing a stinging defeat in a major event after 5 consecutive golds and finishes off the podium for the first time in Turin in 2006. As already mentioned, the brothers Bø they handled their part, as they were just the stars to fall with a Bjørndalen in big trouble on narrow skis and especially one Svendsen trembling at the shooting range.
Behind the four countries mentioned above has placed the'' Italian. Christian De Lorenzi, Dominik Windisch, Markus Windisch and Lukas Hofer have always remained at the edge of the fight for the podium and in the end they finished in fifth position, placing a satisfactory considering the caliber of athletes lined up and the quality of the quartet arrived at the front.
France has instead ended seventh, behind even a surprising Slovenia. The Bleus have paid an illness of Simon Fourcade, substituted'' s last minute by Alexis Boeuf, and the condition is not perfect older brother Martin, in turn, struggling with health problems.
SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - RELAY MASCHILE1. RUSSIA (RUS) [0 +8] 1:12'' 15 "92. GERMANY (GER) [0 +2] 3" 53. AUSTRIA (AUT) [0 +5] 29 "84. NORWAY (NOR) [1 +5] 54" 45. ITALY (ITA) [0 +11] 59 "66. SLOVENIA (SLO) [0 +5] 1'' 27" 2
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This is the final biathlon medal at the 2014 Sochi
Biathlon - MEDALS FINALE1. NORWAY 3-1-2 (6) 2. BELARUS 3-0-1 (4) 3. FRANCE 2-1-1 (4) 4. RUSSIA 1-2-1 (4) 5. UKRAINE 1-0-1 (2) 6. SLOVAKIA 1-0-0 (1) 7. CZECH REPUBLIC 0-3-2 (5) 8. GERMANY 0-2-0 (2) 9. AUSTRIA 0-1-1 (2) 10. SWITZERLAND 0-1-0 (1) 11. ITALY 0-0-1 (1) 11. SLOVENIA 0-0-1 (1)
The maximum circuit biathlon back in action on March 6 in Pokljuka where we will start the final push in the run-up to World Cups. In the men's Martin Fourcade is the favorite to win the crystal ball with Emil Hegle Svendsen as the only alternative. Among women, on the other hand is four-fight with Tora Berger, Darya Domracheva, Gabriela Soukalova and Kaisa Mäkäräinen separated by a few points.
However, starting from February 28 will begin to Presque Isle (United States), the interesting World Youth Championships for junior categories (born in 1993 or later) and youth (born in 1995 or later).
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