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Rarely in the biathlon men are seen manifestations of omnipotence similar to that put on display today by Martin Fourcade. To find something like that in the XXI century must disturb the best Ole Einar Bj & oslash; rndalen.
Sunday 14 December 2014 6 minutes reading time
French, fresh from a sprint opaque, and took it to understand you want to restore the values ​​usual starting the race taking a hellish pace that allowed him to quickly engage the group of pursuers behind Johannes Thingnes B & oslash ;.
After rifiatato in the second round, he again brought as a blacksmith in the third round by reducing the gap from the twenty-one Norwegian who, after being cleaned in the first two polygons, missed twice in the third cos & Igrave; as Emil Hegle Svendsen, who has paid a dear price the choice to fight the twenty six year old Catalan uphill. In Lombardy, one would say that the twenty-nine of Trondheim made Ganassa.
The trans instead & egrave; was perfect, cos & Igrave; as Simon Schempp and Jakov Fak and, in the fourth round, he decided to pick up the pace uphill pulling the German and Slovene to arrive with margin all''ultima shooting session where, despite 'intense effort, & egrave; result once more precise, going to win the victory of the season number 3 and 34 of his career.
In other words you Fourcade & egrave; again proved superior to the rest of the world, although nell''ultimo lap had to grit his teeth to reject the return of Schempp, capable of conclusive fractions of the race extremely incisive. The Teutonic, in turn author of a shoot-out, he took the place of 'honor with Fak completing the podium despite having missed a target in the final polygon.
The twenty-seven of Rijeka has been right of pi & ugrave; young brothers B & oslash ;, slipped to fourth place, and an Anton Shipulin very competitive skiing close to their own standards. Svendsen instead & egrave; collapsed to 14 & deg; place and lost the leadership of the general classification.
In light of the bombastic statements by Norwegian last week "no ceder & ograve; the yellow bib without a fight" we can say that the match has ended with the Scandinavian KO ended after a couple of posts from the Pyrenean seated.
In Pokljuka the aforementioned yellow bib sar & agrave; In fact, on the shoulders of Martin Fourcade who now commands the absolute ranking of the World Cup with 216 followed by Svendsen to 203, from 196 in Fak and Schempp to 192.
The 'blue only athlete in the race, Dominik Windisch (1 + 1 + 0 + 2), concluded 42 & deg; lacking the points due to an error of too.
Hochfilzen - TRACKING MASCHILE1. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 32''53 "72. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 4" 13. FAK Jakov [SLO] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) 10 "94. B & Ø Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (0 + 0 + 2 + 0) 16" 25. Anton Shipulin [RUS] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) to 28 "56. B & Ø Tarjei [NOR] (1 + 0 + 0 + 0) 45" 17. Andreas Birnbacher [GER] (0 + 2 + 0 + 0) to 48 "88. Landertinger Dominik [AUT] (0 + 1 + 0 + 2) in 56" 29. MORAVEC Ondrej [CZE] (1 + 1 + 0 + 0) to 56 "510. Malyshko Dmitry [RUS] (1 + 1 + 0 + 0) to 1''02" 6
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As for the schedule, next week you race in Pokljuka, Slovenia. The program provides for the female sprint Friday & Igrave; 19, the 'chase Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 seasonal first mass start.
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FOURCADE Martin
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FAK Jakov
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