Bjrn Ferry won a "tug". Martin Fourcade protagonist in Fair Play

The mass start men's Pokljuka has developed as a real tug-elimination. Namely, it was important to be precise in each and every polygon error has progressively reduced the ranks of pretenders to success.

Sunday 9 March 2014 5 minutes reading time

Of the thirteen athletes who made up the lead group after the shootings on the ground it came only five at the concluding session, which came out without penalty, and then with the shoot-out during the day today, only Martin Fourcade, Bjorn Ferry and Evgeny Ustyugov. The Swede has also relied on its renowned incisiveness in the final lap going to win the seventh victory of Cafiero, the second in the last four days, in front of the French (for which Pokljuka is confirmed haunted) and the Russian. It should be emphasized as Fourcade has become the protagonist of a nice gesture on the second lap when, in the belly of the peloton, in a contact has inadvertently broken a stick just to Ferry. The transalpine, aware of it, then immediately spent just stick to the Scandinavian repair it as quickly as possible to the damage caused. Returning to the race today, Emil Hegle Svendsen finished in fourth position, calling out of the fight for the victory with an error'' s last polygon where he had arrived in the group of the best even with the'' American Tim Burke, then the seventh due to two targets missed. '' The only blue busy, Lukas Hofer, lived a nightmare day to shoot as many as 11 missing targets and closing the twenty-ninth, aka last of the starters. Fourcade approaches to further the conquest of the crystal ball and, unless ailments, the only uncertainty concerns the time at which mathematically win the World Cup. We will succeed in Kontiolahti already next week, then closing the game with a leg'' s advance? To do so will have to have at least 180 points of margin on the second and currently has 175. Fourcade has also mortgaged the ranking of specialties in a mass start race since the term has 114 points against 73 of Svendsen and 70 Alexey Volkov. Wanting to find a cause for concern, it is definitely more heated fight for the other two steps of the podium. Svendsen breathe in the race to the square d'' because it brings honor its margin to 43 points on Landertinger (twenty-fourth day), 48 of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (ninth) and 65 Anton Shipulin (absent due to illness). It goes without saying that a BjÃ¸rndalen on the podium in the overall World Cup'''' s age of forty years would be something unheard of. POKLJUKA - MASS START MASCHILE1. FERRY Bjorn [SWE] (0 +0 +0 +0) 35'' 19 "32. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +0 +0 +0) 4" 73. Evgeny Ustyugov [RUS] (0 +0 +0 +0) 12 "54. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +0 +0 +1) 35" 95. BÃ˜ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 +1 +1 +0) 42 "06. BEATRIX Jean Guillaume [FRA] (0 +0 +1 +1) 55" 07. BURKE Tim [USA] (0 +0 +0 +2) 58 "68. BÃ–HM Daniel [GER] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 05" 09. BJÃ˜RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (2 +0 +0 +2) in 1'' 12 "410. LOGINOV Alexander [RUS] (0 +1 +1 +1) in 1'' 18" 0Clicca here for results complete.

Francesco Paone

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