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"It is not over till it's over", or "It's not over until it's over." This is the 'most famous aphorism of Yogi Berra, old catcher (and later manager) of the New York Yankees and New York Mets. Here we talk about biathlon and not baseball, but the concept was staged today in the men's relay of Ruhpoding is the same.
Wednesday 11 January 2017 6 minutes reading time
The launch saw shining Lukas Hofer, who has allowed Italy to change in the head with a margin of 5 "of Norway (represented by Ole Einar Bjoerndalen) and Czech Republic, as well as about fifteen seconds of a group comprising - among other - Russia (with Alexey Volkov), Ukraine, Sweden and Austria.
The first segment of the race has embarrassed the hosts Germany, forced to take the penalty loop after a bad polygon standing Erik Lesser, and immediately ditched any ambition of France, plunged to 2 minutes because of a performance definitely undertone of falling Simon Fourcade.
The second half seemed to have addressed the victory to Russia. Anton Shipulin has in fact split into two the race, gaining a lead of half a minute on the tandem made up of Ukraine and Sweden; above all it has changed with more than 40 "on Norway (with Vetle Christiansen to make every effort) and on Germany, whose prices have been raised from Benedikt Doll. Italy, in the lead up to the standing shooting, has slipped back when Dominik Windisch had to take the unfortunate ring.
The third stage was relatively interim. Matvey Eliseev defended himself and sold the witness with 30 "advantage on the duo of Norway and Germany, where quartets Henrik L'Abee-Lund and Arnd Peiffer have proved very perky. Sweden and Ukraine have however lost ground, seeing reached Austria.
In closing Anton Babikov appeared in control. After the polygon on the ground has remained substantially unchanged the gap on his pursuers and not even a recharge of overused standing seemed to be able to question the leadership of Russia, still strong 14 "on Norway exit of the final shooting session, where Germany has in turn had to resort to extra bullets.
the impression of being able to repel the onslaught of Emil Hegle Svendsen, gave twenty-five in the final round of Ufa still maintaining 8 "ahead of only 1,100 meters from the line (and the most challenging part of the lap behind us). Instead Babikov came into its own crisis in the final kilometer and thirty-one of Trondheim has literally stripped within sight of the finish line, changing at the last minute epilogue apparently already written.
Therefore Norwegian apotheosis despite the absence of Bø brothers. There is none like Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who nearly 43 years takes home yet another laurel, but the MVP award of the day should be evenly divided between the Abee-Lund and precisely Svendsen. The first because it made the above expectations, the second for scoring a remarkable performance and not have even given up when - less than a kilometer from the finish line - the competition seemed doomed.
For Russia (Volkov, Shipulin, Eliseev, Babikov) un'amarissima place of honor that smacks of mockery, while Germany (Lesser, Doll, Peiffer, Schempp) may be satisfied with a podium which threatened to fade at launch.
Fourth Ukraine as truly remarkable that preceded Czech Republic and Sweden. France has finally ended ninth and - on balance - the gap accumulated departing was fatal. Italy, after the initial outburst, was ranked tenth. Anyway Joseph Montello and Thomas Bormolini are not at all disappointed, considering their potential.
Tomorrow at 14.30 will stage the women's relay. The men will be back on track on Friday at 14.45 for the sprint.
RUHPOLDING - RELAY MEN 1. NOR [Bjoerndalen, Christiansen, L'Abee-Lund, Svendsen] (0 + 5) 1: 13'40 "7 2. RUS [Volkov, Shipulin, Eliseev, Babikov) (0 + 2) 5 "1 3. GER [Lesser, Doll, Peiffer, Schempp] (1 + 9) 23" 5 4. UKR [Pryma, Semenov, Semakov, Kilchitskyy] (0 + 6) to 28 "0 5. CZE [Moravec , Soukup, Slesingr, Krcmar] (1 + 9) 32 "6 6. SWE [Stenersen, Nelin, Samuelsson, Lindström] (0 + 8) in 1'09" 9
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