Doppietta norvegese nell'equilibrata Sprint di Oslo

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Norwegian double in the balanced Sprint in Oslo

A really nice race, uncertain until the last and very balanced, which at the end rewarded an outsider, frankly unpredictable on the eve.

Thursday 15 March 2018 3 minutes reading time

He is Henrik The 'Abee-Lund who with the zero at the polygon has hit the first career victory, putting behind the two cannibals of the season, Johannes Thingnes BÃ¸ and Martin Fourcade, respectively 2nd and 3rd and separated from each other by only eight tenths. The Norwegian, clearly leading up to two thirds of the race, has paid dearly a mistake in the standing series. At the exit from the polygon, however, was in front of a second but in the last lap he had to bow to the compatriot, now competitive even on skis. The gap on the finish line was just over six seconds. Martin Fourcade instead finished third without making any mistakes, but fell in the first lap downhill, however, breaking the stick. Probably without this incident the victory would have been his. The Frenchman is still leader of the general classification with 37 points of advantage over the rival, BÃ¸ is instead in command of the classification of specialties. Fourth place bitter for Julian Eberhard, forced to complete a penalty round at the end of the second series of shooting and mocked in the final by Fourcade for only two tenths. The Austrian preceded by 8 "Lukas Hofer, author of an amazing race on narrow skis, partial in which he obtained the second half, just seven tenths from BÃ¸, but cut off from the fight for the first three positions due to a mistake in the series on the ground: the 'blue has become the star of a stellar ending that allowed him to put behind Peiffer 6 Â°, Garanichev 7 Â°, Fillon Maillet 8 Â°, Doll 9 Â° and Birkeland 10 Â°. Only 18 Â° instead, although without errors, the winner of the Sprint of Kontiolahti, the Russian Anton Shipulin who closed, however, less than a minute from the winner. As for the other Italians in the race, Dominik Windisch has reached 31st (0 + 2) and Thomas Bormolini 59th (1 + 0).

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