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First Dorothea's 2nd place, then the triumph of a huge Hofer in the Sprint. "Since that first and only victory in Anterselva (in 2014, ed) I have worked hard to get back here".
Friday 19 March 2021 4 minutes reading time
An all-blue day in Oestersund, and it's not over if we think about the starting position from a Pursuit perspective.
Dorothea Wierer and Lukas Hofer have given themselves a double podium in the Sprint that opened the last stage of the World Cup, but today is really the great day of the one who in this season has become the leader of the men's movement. , circling the top 3 for many races, before finally climbing it to Nove Mesto.
Today, however, Lukas really did something special, taking his second career individual victory in a top-level race, beating Samuelsson by 4 seconds to go for an encore over 7 years after Anterselva. It was January 17, 2014 and, again in a Sprint, the blue won ex aequo with the German Schempp. This time, the triumph is hers alone. “It was a somewhat unexpected victory - Hofer told Fisi.org - After seeing the women's race I understood that it would be a very fast race, where you had to work clean at the shooting range.
In the end I managed to do a great race, even though I was a bit stuck on skis on the first lap. After the shooting range on the ground I felt my legs spin much better and put what I am capable of on the track. It's been seven years since the first time, but in all this time I've always worked to improve and get to where I am now, I think I have achieved the best performance of my career ”.
Only two and a half seconds were missing for an extraordinary double, the ones that Tiril Eckhoff gave Dorothea Wierer, sumptuous at the shooting range with the second consecutive zero in a Sprint and, with today's second place, at the 40th podium in CdM: "I was forced to fight in both series at the shooting range - said Doro in the post race - especially in the last shot on the ground and in the first standing.
I wanted to do a 0 with all my strength, because I knew it would be important to aim for the podium. The condition is growing, even if the tiredness of the end of the season is felt ”.
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