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The Gods of biathlon are blessed for wind storm that December 1 forced the cancellation of the pursuits of Östersund. If they had completed, today would be a useless staged medley relay. Instead, the need to retrieve an individual trial has allowed us to attend one of the best races of the winter''.
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The ideal conditions have minimized the errors between the big shot, expanding dramatically in the pink of the pretenders to success, finally conquered by Johannes Bø Thingnes.
The Norwegian, born in 1993, he caught a wild card during his second round when he found himself in the company of Martin Fourcade, who instead was running his final round. The Scandinavian has decided to hold the tails of the French, and was then able to cover all the targets in the shooting session and the final great to defend themselves very well by the virtual return of the Alps in the last kilometers.
Fourcade finished the square'' s honor with a delay of 7 "1, ditched the execution time significantly slower than the youngest of the brothers Bø, which collects the third win of his career still in junior age. The podium was completed by Arnd Peiffer,'' clearly the fastest man of the day on the slopes. The German, however, has paid a mistake on the ground and had to settle for third place.
The Russian Dmitry Malyshko, leading the way after two polygons, could not match the pace of the opponents in the'' final round and finished fourth (for the third time in the last four races) in front of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Ondrej Moravec Fredrik Emil Hegle Svendsen Lindströme a pain in skiing.
'' To give an idea of ​​the average level today think that, overall, the top fifteen ranked athletes have covered 148 targets out of 150! If you did not record, just missing us. Moreover, both errors were committed on the ground. In addition, there are a total of nineteen athletes able to close with the "zero", since strongly anomalous for Kontiolahti.
Unfortunately Italians were not able to join in the festival of accuracy and have stayed away from the top positions. Lukas Hofer was wrong once in each polygon and finished nineteenth. Dominik Windisch instead has traveled twice'' ring penalty after a shot in the foot and was ranked thirty-fourth.
In the overall standings of the World Cup Martin Fourcade rose to 714 points with a Svendsen 519. Behind them, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen rose to third place with 475 bypassing Dominik Landertinger, today the nineteenth, at an altitude of 465 and taking advantage of Anton Shipulin, twelfth in sprint to 449. At this point in the race for the podium should not be underestimated Thingnes Johannes Bø, Taking the 440.
Fourcade has also mortgaged Cup sprint. With two races remaining French has 340 points against 249 and 228 of Peiffer of Bjørndalen. In other words, simply close the eleventh sprint Saturday, March 15 (starting at 12.15) to win mathematically the list of specialties with a proof of'' advance.
Kontiolahti - SPRINT MASCHILE1. BØ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 +0) 23'' 33 "22. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +0) 7" 13. Arnd Peiffer [GER] (1 +0) 7 "24. Dmitry Malyshko [RUS] (0 +0) 10" 65. BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 +0) to 15 "86 MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (0 +0) 19" 07. LINDSTRÖM Fredrik [SWE] (0 +0) to 23 "58. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 +0) to 23" 89. DOLL Benedikt [GER] (0 +0) to 26 "310. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 +0) to 31" 9Clicca here for full results.
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Men Sprint (I) Kontiolahti (FIN)
BOE Johannes Thingnes
FOURCADE Martin
PEIFFER Arnd
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Johannes Thingnes'' B wins the first exciting sprint Kontiolahti
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