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Epilogue thrilling for the mass start of the women's World Championships in Kontiolahti, after which & egrave; arrived, in a totally unexpected, the second world championship medal for the 'Italian biathlon in a few days.
Sunday 15 March 2015 9 minutes reading time
The race & egrave; started in the sign of Darya Domracheva, immediately to the command of the operations and even capable of earning margin on opponents gi & agrave; in the first round. The Belarusian & egrave; was perfect shots in the ground and seemed headed toward success.
Instead in the first session in the twenty-eight feet of Minsk was wrong twice, while much of the direct pursuers found the "zero". The cards are shuffled and consequently three women came in leading the final polygon. Among them Valj Semerenko & egrave; was the 'only to cover all targets, while Franziska Preu & szlig; and Gabriela Soukalová they made a mistake.
The 'Ukrainian & egrave; involata towards the medal 'gold resisting in the final lap to the return of German, which already has celebrated an early silver. Curiously the 'juniors last able to get on the podium was just a Bavarian, or a certain Magdalena Neuner, who won the mass start of 2008.
The Czech instead & egrave; was sucked into the comeback opponent outputs from clean final shot, or the gi & agrave; cited Domracheva and Karin Oberhofer. The 'blue was in nineteenth place after the shooting on the ground, but taking a step crazy skiing tight and creating two "zero" standing & egrave; failed to return with bullying in the fight for the medals. In the last few kilometers of the twenty-nine Feldthurns has created a rustic duel with the Belarusian and finally you & egrave; put around his neck a bronze that seemed science fiction.
One wonders if the final Domracheva have paid dearly for the choice of starting a whole, investing recklessly precious energy in tender moments where & egrave; pi & ugrave; hard to make a difference. & nbsp;
But above all one wonders if some freak launch accusations of doping also towards Oberhofer after doing the same in respect of Yurlova after the success nell''individuale where the Russian had the 'only crime to guess the "proof of life" shooting when they were giving away the medals. On the 'other hand they are two peers who have found the best race of his career (the' Italian has made the second time of day skiing tight just 2 "from twenty-eight to Minsk, proving so pi & ugrave; competitive than ever in the fund ) within a few days. Perhaps, instead of & eacute; spit judgments without foundation, it would be to look beyond the passport or, better yet, sempicemente accept the 'existence of fourth places and the fact that others may have been more & ugrave; brave .
The gi & agrave; cited Soukalova concluded fifth ahead of Franziska Hildebrand, who should be assigned the 'Oscars of the misfortune. The German fact after the third shot he dropped a stick, losing contact by the three opponents arrive in the head on the top polygon AFTER THAT & eacute; nell''ultima session has further lost time due to a problem in downloading a bullet. Seventh and eighth place for two great protagonists of the World Cup, and Marie Dorin Habert Laura Dahlmeier. Quest''ultima & egrave; unquestionably the woman cover of Kontiolahti 2015 as between individual tests and relay races, you & egrave; put around his neck four medals (2 gold and 2 silver). The 'other blue committed, Dorothea Wierer, today has experienced a bad day and closed at the back cos & Igrave; as un''imprecisa Veronika Vitkova.
Therefore it should be assigned to Domracheva little coveted palm of "disappointment of the World" since remained totally dry medals. However Darya puts light between s & eacute; Kaisa and M & auml; k & auml; r & auml; inen in the race for Crystal Ball Since & eacute; Today the Finnish ailing & agrave; both shot on skis, not & egrave; gone beyond a sad fifteenth position. Net discard the Belarusian raise it to 941 points against the 912 of the Nordic when missing three tests at the end of the season.
In the ranking of specialty & agrave; the mass start instead Preu & szlig; earns the red bib rising to 180 points against the 179 of Valj Semerenko, 165 M & auml; k & auml; r & auml; inen and 163 of Domracheva.
WORLD Kontiolahti - MASS START FEMMINILE1. Semerenko Valj [UKR] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) 34''32 "92. PREU & szlig; Franziska [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) to 6" 23. OBERHOFER Karin [ENG] (1 + 1 + 0 + 0) 12 "64. Darya Domracheva [BLR] (0 + 0 + 2 + 0) to 14" 75. SOUKALOVA Gabriela [CZE] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) to 26 "2 6. HILDEBRAND Franziska [GER] (0 + 0 + 0 + 0) to 31" 77. DAHLMEIER Laura [GER] (0 + 1 + 0 + 1) 39 "98. DORIN HABERT Marie [FRA] (0 + 2 + 1 + 0) to 41" 09. BESCOND Anais [FRA] (0 + 1 + 0 + 0) to 41 "510. Shumilova Ekaterina [RUS] (0 + 0 + 0 + 1) to 41" 8Click here for full results.
The program of the World Cup will end & agrave; in the coming hours with the mass start men. Next week instead andr & agrave; scene in the 'last leg of the World Cup. A Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia) men will be on track gi & agrave; Thursday on Igrave; 19, while the first test female & egrave; scheduled Friday & Igrave; 20.
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