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It starts at 11.45 with the female relay while three hours later at 14.45 the male test will be staged.
Friday 21 February 2020 4 minutes reading time
In the women's field, Italy sides with the same four girls from the last two outings in the order dk fraction used in Oberhof when the ninth place arrived. The launch will still be entrusted to Lisa Vittozzi, Dorothea Wierer in the second fraction, Federica Sanfilippo to close with Michela Carrara.
The last five relays, the last of last season and the four of this, have been won by Norway, which presents itself at the starting line with Solemdal, Tandrevold, Eckoff and Roeiseland. It is difficult to think who can break the Norwegian domination with three nations that have conquered a second and a third place this year. France relies on Simon, Bescond, Aymonier and Braisaz while Hanna Oeberg, in the last part of Sweden, will try to finally get on the podium in this World Cup if her sister Elvira, Brorsson and Persson launch it properly. Switzerland has the enthusiasm and hunger for heavy medals in its typical formation with Elisa, Selina and Aita Gasparin and Lena Haecki in the last fraction.
In the men's field, the Italian quartet will be composed of Lukas Hofer, Thomas Bormolini, Daniele Cappellari and Dominik Windisch, the formation that in the first stage of the season, in Ostersund, conquered the third position and then reappeared in Ruhpolding with the same deployment for a twelfth place.
The favors of the prediction go to the two nations that have monopolized the first two places in the four disputed races in the season. Norway which has already won three times and finished second in the last race before Anterselva lined up with Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen, Johannes Dale, Tarjei Boe and Johannes Thingnes Boe. To try to prevent the encore from the reigning world champions will be France in the formation that imposed itself in Ruhpolding after the second place of Oberhof with Emilien Jacquelin at the launch, Martin Fourcade, Simon Desthieux and Quentin Fillon Maillet where the only Desthieux is not still on the podium in Anterselva.
Germany (Lesser, Horn, Peiffer and Doll) and Russia (Garanichev, Eliseev, Porshnev, Loginov) are luxury outsiders, while the possible surprise, third in the last race of Ruhpolding, is Austria that deploys Leitner, Eder, Eberhard and Landertinger.
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