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The reactions of the two blues after the Oestersund Individual that opened the biathlon World Cup. Sappadina, 13th, happy with the reaction after a shock start.
Saturday 27 November 2021 3 minutes reading time
A bitter start, even if it is clearly just a race, among other things very special like the 15 km, and there is plenty of time to get back on track starting tomorrow.
In any case, there were positive signs from the performance of Lisa Vittozzi and Dorothea Wierer in the Individual of Oestersund which opened the 2021/22 cup, even if the 13th and 37th places brought home are far from the objectives of the two strikers of a national team that today saw their debut in CdM, with two discrete tests, Samuela Comola and Rebecca Passler.
Vittozzi made 3 mistakes in the first shooting range on the ground, then he played a really solid race. “I started with a complicated first shooting range, where the shots ended up a bit high - the sappadina analysis - I underestimated the wind, but I thought it was not necessary to make technical changes to the rifle. I stayed focused and lap after lap things got better. When the wind picked up further, I took a few notches to adjust to the situation.
I received confirmation of the positive sensations I hoped to have, the legs turned in the right way and the condition can only improve, perhaps already in the sprint on Sunday ”.
Dorothea Wierer, on the other hand, had started very well and then made two mistakes on her feet and suffered a rifle problem in the third range, fatal since, in fact, one was added to the 4 overall penalties for the time left before resolving with the last two hits. "Compared to the test a couple of weeks ago in Idre, the sensations were certainly different - says the South Tyrolean champion through the FISI press office - At the third shooting range I had a problem with the rifle that I could no longer load, because the shutter did not open.
While asking for the spare rifle, I managed to load the shots individually, but I left a lot of time and a lot of concentration also in the following shooting ranges, losing pace even on skis ".
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