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Martin Fourcade has now crossed over into that "cannibalism" towards opponents already practiced by Eddy Merckx. Albeit suffering today in the sprint in Nove Mesto French has forfeited (the narrow measure) the fifth victory in six races of the season.
Thursday 15 December 2016 7 minutes reading time
Unlike what happened in Pokljuka, where the big names all had found the "zero" at the range, today almost all the strongest stumbled upon at least one error. That "almost" is represented by Anton Shipulin, managed to close without penalty his trial.
The Russian, however, had to give up celebrating success, bowing to 1 "6 to the aforementioned Fourcade, who imposed despite having missed the fourth target of the standing series. Catalan twenty-eight came from the second polygon with 12 "6 delay from Siberian twenty-nine, but thanks to a bully around final was able to exceed its rival in the final meters, pocketing the 54th statement and the 99th podium of his career.
About podium, behind Shipulin he has placed an Emil Hegle Svendsen fully recovered. The Norwegian thirty-one has paid a dear price for the fact that he had sent to sign the very last bullet. However, thanks to a performance worthy of the good times (third day skiing time) takes the third position, only 6 "4 behind the winner, taking the satisfaction of beating the much incensed compatriot Johannes Bø.
The young Scandinavian missed on the ground, but has not been able to hack into the bottom as in his best days, having to settle for fourth place, albeit only 10 "5 behind the winner. A competition with very low detachment saw two Eastern European athletes risking to break the bank, but at last both relegated to a prestigious placement by a standing penalty.
For the fifth and sixth position were occupied by the Bulgarian Vladimir Iliev and the Latvian Andrejs Rastorgujevs. They found zero, they excelled. Ifs and buts do not make history, but certainly both have demonstrated once again their talent, however, expressed AC.
The countries behind the Iron Curtain a time they also occupied the seventh and eighth place, respectively, with the Ukrainian Sergey Semenov and Czech Ondrej Moravec, best among the darlings of the house of the public hot, rushed en masse in the town of Moravia.
It should be highlighted the performance of Julian Eberhard, the fastest of all skiing, but forced to walk three times a ominous ring. In spite of this big handicap Austrian finished ninth! Beautiful tenth place for the second line Norwegian Erlend Bjøntegaard, which pushed out of the top ten Arnd Peiffer, the best of a German team rather dull.
Among the noteworthy achievements are highlighted those of the Swedish Sebastian Samuelsson nineteen, thirteenth with an error, one slipped between the Russian Maksim Tsvetkov (nth zero of the season) and the almost quarantatreenne Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
There is not that much to celebrate at home Italy. The best blue is Dominik Windisch (1 + 0), twenty-first. Lukas Hofer (1 + 0) gained access to the points, ranking thirty. Instead, they have closed in the rear Thomas Bormolini (2 + 1) and Joseph Montello (0 + 2). Their 2016 in the maximum circuit concluded today, because they will not take part nor the chase, nor the mass start.
Fourcade scored in the overall standings of the World Cup, reaching 348 points. Johannes Bø is always second, but his points are 236. Third Shipulin (227). Svendsen was hoisted in fourth place with 197 (and a game in hand) overcome Tsvetkov (195) and Bjoerndalen (193).
Tomorrow at 17.30 will stage the women's sprint. The men will be back on track Saturday at 15:00 for a pursuit that promises fireworks.
NOVE MESTO - SPRINT MEN 1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 1) 23'48 "0 2. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (0 + 0) to 1" 6 3. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (0 + 1 ) 6 '4 4. BØ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (1 + 0) 10 "5 5. ILIEV Vladimir [BUL] (0 + 1) 15" 8 6. RASTORGUJEVS Andrejs [LAT] (0 + 1) to 16 "3 7. SEMENOV Sergey [UKR] (0 + 0) to 18" 8 8. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (0 + 0) to 26 "5 9. EBERHARD Julian [AUT] (2 + 1) to 28 "6 10. BJØNTEGAARD ​​Erlend [NOR] (0 + 1) to 30" 1
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