Deleted the mass start in Khanty-Mansiysk, Gabriela SoukalovÃ¡ makes history

After the fall of the reflector on the Khanty-Mansiysk polygon, caused by the storm that is battering the resort & agrave; Siberian, the 'Ibu & egrave; It has been forced to cancel the mass start in quest''oggi program.

Sunday 20 March 2016 4 minutes reading time

The situation & egrave; too dangerous to send staged competitions. Even the organizers had evacuated the stadium gi & agrave; in the morning. As a result the World Cup biathlon & egrave; terminated in advance. This is not a novelty & agrave; absolute, even in 2003 - '' 04 The same thing happened when Oslo was impossible to compete in the mass start closing because of fog. So the main news & egrave; represented by the fact that Gabriela SoukalovÃ¡, gi & agrave; sure winner of the overall World Cup, has also won the Cup specialty & agrave; the mass start. The result allows the Czech to enter the history of the discipline, becoming the fourth after biathlete Magdalena Forsberg, Magdalena Neuner and Tora Berger to win the absolute crystal ball and that of specialty & agrave; in each of the four formats. The Bohemian won the "cups" of the sprint and dell''inseguimento in the current season, while he put his hands on that dell''individuale in 2013 - '' 14. CLICK HERE FOR THE FINAL WORLD CUP WOMEN CLICK HERE FOR THE FINAL WORLD CUP MEN & Egrave; Interestingly, the top three athletes have reported their respective nations on the podium in the general classification after a long fast. No Czech had closed cos & igrave; top from 1989 - '' 90, when Jirina PelcovÃ¡ won the World Cup by beating even the flag of Czechoslovakia. France lacked the 'appointment with the top-three dall''inverno 2007 -' '08, when Sandrine Bailly finished second behind Magdalena Neuner. The 'Italy, instead, celebrates the second podium of all time after the one obtained by Nathalie Santer, the second in 1993 -' '94. The World Cup & egrave; He finished, but there are still some competitions. Next week will be held in Forni Avoltri the absolute Italian championships. Especially the informal end of the season of snow will be & agrave; represented by Tyumen races, scheduled for 9 and 10 April, where - among others - will present Martin Fourcade, Ole Einar Bj Ã¸ rndalen, Dorothea Wierer, Marie Dorin Habert, Simon Schempp, Anton Shipulin, Tiril Eckhoff, Karin Oberhofer, Franziska Hildebrand, Ekaterina Yurlova.

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