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Sunday will start from Östersund the XXX edition of the women's biathlon World Cup. It'll start with an appetizer consisting of two mixed evidence. Then you will begin to get serious on November 30, when it will race for 15km, first individual race of the winter.
Thursday 24 November 2016 13 minutes reading time
Unlike the men's field, make cards to the season of the other half of the sky is not at all simple. In fact, right now the circuit is authentic pink no man's land, being free from a fixed point of reference that can be a kind of gold standard to which all should relate. There is, however, a group of top athletes whose values ​​appear constantly fluctuating, with relative uncertainty about the hierarchies that appear much smoother.
However we try to make order in an unstable environment and in constant evolution. On paper, the role of favorites to win the Crystal Ball is awarded to laura dahlmeier. The young German has put on display the trappings of predestined since his debut in the maximum circuit, which occurred at the end of 2012-'13.
Since then the Bavarian twenty-three has grown regularly until you reach the current level of excellence. Skiing is now among the top five in the circuit, while the polygon percentages are impressive. The only weakness is represented by decidedly more dilated execution times compared to the average. However with his performances in the fund and its precision, this problem is widely surmountable.
For the Teutonic the main unknown is represented by health, so far proved rather poor. Besides, if Dahlmeier has not fought for the World Cup already in the last season, it is only because she got sick twice, having to skip too many races to be able to be competitive in the overall standings.
If it were to be left in peace by the bacilli, then the women's biathlon could regain that reference point currently absent. True that Laura said they did not point to the absolute ranking, but to have as a priority the World Cup. The impression, however, is that it is pre-tactics, ie sentences spoken in order to shake a little 'pressure from the shoulders, at least in the beginning of winter.
Theoretically, the only opponent with a solidity comparable to that of the German is the holder of the Crystal Ball, the Gabriela Soukalová that in spring she married Mr. Koukal and then we will have to get used to calling Koukalová. But the Czech was called out of contention, explaining that after the success of last year has experienced a difficult summer on the reasons and plan to have found the desire to train only in autumn.
We have now learned about the content of the outputs of the twenty-seven of Jablonec nad Nisou, whose analyzes on itself are rarely objective and often much more negative than the reality of the facts.
In this case, however, the above should be true and hardly the Bohemian resurface the impressive performance of 2015-'16, when it closed twenty races of twenty-five in the top-5, without ever leaving the best 11.
Probably start-up, only to grow the way he provided to present to top the World Championships in Hochfilzen. Considering his talent, he can still take off satisfactions and close the overall ranking in the top positions, but it would be really surprising to see her fight for the World Cup. Happens the contrary, it should automatically be awarded the "Poker Face" award and / or "Piangina gold".
Certainly it will be much more likely to see Marie Dorin Habert duel for the Crystal Ball that last year he fought to the last. Now the Frenchman is second to none in the fund and has become a sort of Terminator in the ground shooting, where its percentage will attract around 95%. His Achilles heel is represented from standing, where instead is much more unstable.
However, there are uncertainties about his real state of health since now for a couple of months appears tormented repeated problems. At the end of September it had to stop completely to deal with a burnout, while in mid-November has renounced races Sjusjøen because of a bad back pain. Should arise healthy at the start of next week, the individual, would be a serious candidate for winning the overall standings.
They cultivate hopes to excel in the absolute ranking also Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Tiril Eckhoff, for many athletes twin aspects. Both can be devastating on the narrow skis, but are intended to pay duty to the shooting, component where their percentages (especially those of Norway) and the execution time (those of Finland in particular) leave largely to be desired. For both the possibilities of holding in your hands the "Coppone" pass on the ability to shoot well.
opposite goes for Dorothea Wierer that, by virtue of the fact in 2015-'16, is inserted must be on the list of contenders for the Crystal Ball. Not to be repetitive on Italy, please read the detailed article on the blue team, reachable by clicking on these words.
Those mentioned so far are, more or less, the favorites for the World Cup. However, in a no man's land certainly it can not be underestimated the large number of outsiders. Who belongs to this group of athletes start with the ambition to end the overall ranking in the top-5. But in a free dominatrix circuit like the female biathlon, each of them could also prove to be surprising and a contender for the overall win. It is worthwhile to mention five of all.
In Germany there are two home Franziska. The expert Hildebrand and the young Preuß. The first, in an incredible improved over the years, changed the materials passing from Salomon to Rossignol. The twenty-nine of Clausthal-Zellerfeld school is now one of the top ten both in terms of performance in the fund that the item accurately, so we often aspettarcela and willingly in the top positions. The second is recovering from a difficult year because of a serious muscle injury, but its potential is much higher than seen so far. It will not be surprising to find her on the podium and see harpooning the first success of his career.
Eastern Europe instead offers Veronika Vitkova, Olena Pidhrushna and Yuliia Dzhima. The Czech to be competitive to the maximum level needs to rediscover the step on two years ago and ski reduce errors to the ground. Ukrainian athletes are rather impressive solidity and with a small step forward in the fund may be frightening to many.
If a few weeks ago Mars Olsbu had not been forced to undergo surgery for appendicitis, then it would have to be inserted by force in the group of outsiders. However the intervention, and the subsequent general anesthesia, are likely to have compromised leaving the competitiveness of the Norwegian grown strongly in the final of last season.
At the start of every winter we wonder who will be the "new face" able to act in the noble of the charts. In this sense, the first name to come to mind is to Justine Braisaz, still in junior age. The French twenties is however growing rapidly and is a serious candidate to close the overall ranking in the top 10.
In fact one of the major themes of the women's tour will be that of the illustrious returns. Darya Domracheva, became a mother of Xenia Bjoerndalen in early October, will return to competition in January. Anastasiya Kuzmina, stalled for two years, will find the trails right from the stage in Pokljuka. Also the fate of the fallen superpower Russia could be partially refitting by Ekaterina Glazyrina, in turn returned from maternity leave.
It will be interesting to find out the level of each of them. Certainly, should be those of the past, it will not be a pilgrim to see them again on the podium, perhaps quite often.
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