Frittata Martin Fourcade, the Czech Republic and won thanks

Incredible epilogue in the medley relay Ã–stersund, first race of the World Cup biathlon. France, after leading for most of the competition, he sees the success fade'' s last shooting session due to a resounding harakiri Martin Fourcade.

Sunday 24 November 2013 4 minutes reading time

The quartet transalpine had taken command of the operations right from the very start and enjoyed a huge advantage already at the end of the two villages where women's Marie Laure Brunet and Marie Dorin Habert have proved big sweep. Simon Desthieux kept the margin, then incremented by Fourcade. The ruler of the men's circuit, however, is completely gone haywire in the polygon standing who had arrived with more than 1'' 30 "lead over his pursuers. The Catalan missed 4 targets and after using (male) two of the three refills is distributed without firing the last bullet''. As a result suffered a penalty 2 minutes in ranking in accordance with point 5.5 paragraph C of regolmento disciplinary Ibu which reads as follows: "A penalty two minutes will be the athletes or teams for [...] not every bullet fired in the case reinitiate the athletes to ski before he had drawn five times in the individual, sprint, pursuit and mass start. Tuttto and 8 the bullets must be fired in the relay. " France, who finished third, losing the sprint with Norway is thus seen relegated to fifth place. Fortunately, the victory went to the nation's past to the finish line first or the Czech Republic consists of Veronika Vitkova, Gabriela Soukalova, Zdenek Vitek and Ondrej Moravec, revealed the best overall shooting (no penalty turn and 8 refills). As mentioned square d'' honor for Norway, while the podium was completed by'' Ukraine who had crossed the line in fourth place in the final sprint past the Italian'' composed Dorothea Wierer, Karin Oberhofer, Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer. In general good test of the Azzurri despite the slip Dominik shooting standing, with a fifth on track to become the fourth French misadventures. Disastrous you have evidence of Russia and Germany classificatesi sixth and seventh respectively with gaps longer than three minutes. MIXED RELAY Ã–STERSUND1. CZECH REPUBLIC [0 +8] 1:17'' 05 "62. NORWAY [1 +12] 10" 23. UKRAINE [0 +12] 1'' 11 "24. ITALY [2 +11] 1'' 12" 55. FRANCE [3 +5] 2'' 11 "1 Click here for the full result. Wednesday 27, starting at 17.15, the first individual race of the season with the women's 15 km. Live on Eurosport.

Francesco Paone

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