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Great balance and great performance in the men's relay in the final round of Ruhpolding where Germany, Austria and Russia were vying for success remained uncertain until the last centimeter all''.
Thursday 9 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The'' L'' won the day consists of Austria Christoph Sumann, Daniel Mesotitsch, Simon Eder and Dominik Landertinger. Just the third and fourth factional were the best since the thirties of Saalfelden recovered the separation from Germans and Russians inherited from the two veterans, while the twenty-five years has passed in Hochfilzen sprint Simon Schempp.
Quest'' last was however good to regain lost ground after the last polygon'', where he had to use a charging unlike the two adversaries. The twenty-five of Baden-Württemberg has also responded in kind to an attack Landertinger seven hundred meters from the finish, but nothing has been able to sprint, as was the case against Anton Shipulin in Le Grand Bornand.
So Schempp is the second consecutive sprint relay team lost, against two different opponents. Then one wonders whether to play in the final fraction is the most correct strategic choice, or whether it is preferable to present it earlier, leaving the closing others.
The aforementioned Shipulin has instead lost contact from Germany and Austria in the final kilometers. Russia, which has also deployed Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov and Dmitry Malyshko thus closed by the return of third difendendendosi more convincing Sweden. The Scandinavian quartet today paid a penalty turn at the foot of her leading man, Fredrik Lindström, otherwise he could in turn strive for success.
About Scandinavia and penalty turns, Norway today has not gone beyond a dismal ninth place due to a disastrous polygon ground Thingnes Johannes Bø at launch. The twenty year old Norwegian was wrong to repeat and had to travel three times the'' ring of penalties. The brother Tarjei, Christiansen and Svendsen have then competed for the honor of signing.
Good test for the Italian'' (Markus Windisch, Dominik Windisch, Christian De Lorenzi, Lukas Hofer) who finished in sixth place, beaten in the final by the Czech Republic, and has thus achieved the best result of the season in this race format. In the blue house shone particularly the first and fourth fractionist.
RUHPOLDING - RELAY MASCHILE1. AUSTRIA [0 +8] 1:15'' 40 "92. GERMANY [0 +9] to 0" 13. RUSSIA [0 +7] 14 "94. SWEDEN [1 +7] 25" 15. CZECH REPUBLIC [0 +2] 41 "46. ITALY [0 +7] 47" 37. SLOVENIA [0 +10] 1'' 31 "58. CANADA [0 +8] 1'' 39" 89. NORWAY [3 +5] 2'' 02 "910. FRANCE [0 +5] 2'' to 19" 3
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Tomorrow, at 14.15, will be staged the'' individual female. But men will return the match on Saturday, starting at 12:45, in turn, with an'' individual.
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