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Martin Fourcade is permanently entered in the'' exclusive club of the greatest biathlon authoritarian winning the gold medal in the'' male'' pursuit of Sochi 2014. The Frenchman has thus become the seventh man in history to achieve the "Triple Crown", ie to win a gold at Five circles, the overall World Cup and the World Championship gold''.
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The twenty-five Catalan, who started with bib number six, it was soon reported on the head of the race and has progressively relied on its top talent taking solitary leadership after the third polygon, where despite an error has fired more quickly than rivals closer, and then cover all the targets'' s last shooting session and close in triumph.
'' Silver medal for Ondrej Moravec who like a quiet little ant has always carried his step skiing close to not miss anything to throw at the finish line and collect the fruits of his shrewd tactics of the race. The Czech Republic square and then a second man on the podium after the surprising third place Jaroslav Soukup (now Twentieth) in the sprint.
'' The apotheosis of France has been complemented by the bronze medal by Jean Guillaume Beatrix, given in terms of sensational form from qualified sources close to the Alps'' environment on the eve of the Games. The number two in the French movement turned in a race parallel to the foreman managed to recover eleven o'clock positions relative to the pectoral base for then stand in the'' last lap to return to Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
The greatest biathlete of all time, which is celebrated today'' s heir, he missed three targets and had to settle for fourth place having to postpone the'' appointment with the possibility of exceeding the record for Olympic medals the cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie (at the moment are matched to 12).
On the subject of Norway'' s lackluster performance must be recorded by Emil Hegle Svendsen, only seventh despite a single failure to fire. The twenty-eight Scandinavian looks far from the best form at the bottom and rumors would give him in poor physical condition, even in doubt for the individual''.
The list of disappointed of the day is led by Dominik Landertinger. '' The Austrian came in second place at the shooting range where decisive, however, after having messed with shippers, went missing two targets in crisis and closing tenth. In addition, Russia has to swallow another bitter pill. Evgeny Ustygov has played a big chase, but due to the starting position penalizing finished fifth, while Anton Shipulin collapsed in the second half of the race just finishing fourteenth.
Without infamy and without praise the performance of the Italian. Lukas Hofer has made two mistakes and finished seventeenth. Four rounds of penalty paths by Dominik Windisch, at last twenty-fifth. Finally, Christian De Lorenzi, missed two targets, ranked forty-second.
SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - TRACKING MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +0 +1 +0) 33'' 48 "62. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (0 +0 +0 +0) 14" 13. BEATRIX Jean Guillaume [FRA] (0 +0 +1 +0) 24 "24. BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 +1 +1 +1) 25" 95. Evgeny Ustyugov [RUS] (0 +1 +0 +0) 36 "76. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 +0 +0 +1) 39" 17. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +1 +0 +0) 40 "28. EDER Simon [AUT] (1 +0 +0 +1) 40" 39. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (0 +0 +1 +0) to 48 "310. Landertinger Dominik [AUT] (0 +0 +1 +2) 48" 9Clicca here for full results.
TRIPLE CROWN - BIATHLONQuesti seven biathletes are able to realize the so-called triple crown in the men's biathlon. For each of them is referred to'' the year in which they won the third and last of the three licenses necessary to close the circle.
1981 - Frank Ullrich (GDR) 1988 - ROETSCH Frank-Peter (DDR), 2003 - BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar (NOR) 2006 - Sven Fischer (GER) 2007 - GREIS Michael (GER) 2010 - Emil Hegle SVENDSEN (NOR) 2014 - FOURCADE Martin (FRA)
Tomorrow, at 16.00, will be awarded the title of'' Olympic pursuit of women. The next men's race is scheduled for Thursday, February 13 when they play the twenty kilometers.
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Men Pursuit Sochi (RUS)
FOURCADE Martin
MORAVEC Ondrej
BEATRIX Jean-Guillaume
Biathlon - 2014 Sochi
Martin Fourcade is consecrated. the seventh biathlete to achieve the Triple Crown
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