Berger rises, Fourcade creates a historical record, Bjrndalen back on the podium

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Lars Berger was a really special feeling with Hochfilzen. In 2003 he won the first race of his career was reborn in 2008 after a long dark period in 2013 and is risen again of entering the sprint today.

Friday 6 December 2013 6 minutes reading time

Curiously, all three rings have come to a shine away from each'' other'' s, but today is undoubtedly one of the most sensational for both'' which obviously advancing age (will be 35 in May springs) and to the fact that "the Fast Lars" was recovering from a dark period due to a complicated knee surgery. Today, however, the veteran Norwegian found the verve of the times'' s gold and blasted the imposing bench in the World Cup for the seventh time in his career (which is all in sprint races) in spite of two shooting errors. Berger has overwhelmed the competition skiing close trimming heavy detachments in the bottom of all your opponents. To tell the truth must be stressed as the Scandinavian veteran, who started with bib number 7, you may have been helped by a slowdown of the track with every passing minute. The competition was held under a light snowfall and were placed in the top positions athletes not exactly expected. '' The Austrian Christoph Sumann and German Simon Schempp, both returning from an illness, they closed the fifth and eighth respectively. Also came the unexpected'' in sixth place of the twenty-two Ukrainian Dmytro Pidruchnyi hitherto never entered into the points. Berger aside from the podium gives two results extremely significant. Martin Fourcade did not affect the usual skiing (perhaps because of the'' high pectoral base), but thanks to zero shooting was accommodated in second place at 13 "6 by the winner. Frenchman has therefore become the first athlete in the history of biathlon close 11 consecutive races in the top-three. The third place was, however, the prerogative of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. The thirty-nine Norwegian missed a target standing and closed at 15 "3 by Berger, back in the top three after almost two years, and especially reaching a total of 166 podium finishes in his career in biathlon. The triumph of Norway was completed by the fourth and seventh Tarjei BÃ¸ Emil Hegle Svendsen. No German in the top seven, but four'' between the eighth and twelfth position. Russia on the other hand has struggled and has collected his best result of the fourteenth Anton Shipulin. Chapter Italy. As in the women's sprint in Hochfilzen recalled close to Ã–stersund. The Best of the Blues was Dominik Windisch who finished 29th with two errors in the polygon picking up their first points of the season. Christian De Lorenzi finished forty-fifth with the same score to shoot. The two will be in the game'' chase that will take place Sunday from 13.30. Nothing to do for Markus Windisch (which with 2 penalties ranked sixty), Lukas Hofer (sixty-ninth even today because of four missed targets) and Joseph Montello (which concluded'' s debut at centotreesimo place with four errors). Hochfilzen - SPRINT MASCHILE1. BERGER Lars [NOR] (0 +2) 25'' 02 "02. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +0) to 13" 63. BJÃ˜RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 +1) 15 "34. BÃ˜ Tarjei [NOR] (0 +0) 17" 05. SUMANN Christoph [AUT] (0 +0) 31 "16. PIDRUCHNYI Dmytro [UKR] (0 +0) 31" 37. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (1 +0) 39 "78. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 +1) 42" 19. SEMENOV Serhiy [UKR] (0 +0) to 47 "710. BÃ–HM Daniel [GER] (0 +0) to 48" 7Clicca here for full results. Tomorrow at 14.30 will stage a relay race.

Francesco Paone

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