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Dorothea, third in the Ruhpolding sprint and now second in the general behind the Norwegian, admits some back problems. Vittozzi: "I am still far from my possibilities".
Wednesday 15 January 2020 2 minutes reading time
He smiles for an important third place, after finding a fundamental "zero" to take the podium in the Ruhpolding sprint, but it is clear that Dorothea Wierer realized she had found on the way to the possibility of winning the second consecutive World Cup , a very tough opponent which is proving Tiril Eckhoff.
Lost the yellow bib for only 3 points in favor of the Norwegian (we will discuss later on the scraps), the South Tyrolean champion analyzes today's test: "My race was positive, also because in this period I am getting back a bit '' of back pain and we are working with specific exercises to try to relax it - explains “Doro†- The ideal would be to stop for a few days to heal better, but this is certainly not the time. The zero at the shooting range was important, I knew that to make the podium I shouldn't have made a mistake and we were faced with another situation compared to Oberhof ".
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