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Having flirted with the cumbersome result in three of the four relays seasonal, today in Oslo last Italu biathlon women have managed to get on that podium so far only touched.
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Dorothea Wierer, Nicole Gontier, Federica Sanfilippo and Karin Oberhofer have finished second in the race held in the Norwegian capital, thus obtaining & Igrave; the best finish ever for the women's movement in an Italian team trials from the birth of the Biathlon World Cup.
The Italians have always remained in the lead thanks to an excellent performance to the shooting, where they used only 2 refills resulting quartet pi & ugrave; precise day between twenty parties, and materials prepared by Skimen fast, too often undervalued nell''economia dell''esito competitions.
MVP Italu doubt that Nicole Gontier & egrave; was deployed in the second fraction, the level pi & ugrave; high all''ultima together, managing to limit damage to a minimum compared to Gabriela Soukalová and Franziska Preu & szlig ;. Obviously today's performance & egrave; the best response of the Aosta Valley to those on social networks do not have anything better to do than to ask for removal from the quartet blue, the 'immediate relegation Ibu Cup and the' exposure to public ridicule not just missing a target. & nbsp;
The 'Italian & egrave; was preceded only by the Czech Republic that in this 2014 - '' 15 is proving the relay pi & ugrave; strongest ever, as witnessed by the fact that he won his third win in five races, which are always in the same formation: Eva Puskarcikova at launch, Soukalova in second, third and Jitka Landova Veronika Vitkova to close. The Central European, in turn, always remained in the quarters of the standings, have taken over in the third segment of the race, while closing un''impressionante Vitkova has left no room for comebacks.
Instead he climbed the slope successfully France (Anais Bescond, Enora Latuilliere, Coline Varcin, Marie Dorin Habert) able to catch the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium at the expense of Germany, in the long struggle for success but finally betrayed by a subdued performance of their own woman pi & ugrave; listed or Laura Dahlmeier.
Very far all the other teams and especially hurt the 'Ukraine, which in the light of the camp starters could be considered among the favorites, but it's over now nell''anello of penalty payment agrave ;.
So Italy second, and a warm greeting to the luminaries who no longer & ugrave; than two years ago (a few days before the bronze champion of Nove Mesto) gave the women's movement in crisis.
OSLO - RELAY FEMMINILE1. CZECH REPUBLIC [CZE] (0 + 5) 1: 11''10 "62. ITALY [ENG] (0 + 2) in 28" 33. FRANCE [FRA] (0 + 5) 45 "94. GERMANY [GER] (0 + 6) to 1''02" 35. RUSSIA [RUS] (0 + 6) to 1''23 "46. UKRAINE [UKR] (1 + 12) in 1''50" 9Click here for full results.
As for the schedule World Cup stops for a couple of weeks. The next race will be the first level & agrave; March 5 when the medley relay inaugurer & agrave; the program of the World Championships in Kontiolahti.
However, starting from February 18 in Minsk will be played the World Youth Championships.
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