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As usual Oberhof has "given" condizoni bad weather. In the surreal atmosphere provided by fog and rain has staged the men's sprint, the first race of the World Cup'' s calendar year 2014 where the errors have a lower specific gravity than usual.
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The competition has lived on the distance duel between Emil Hegle Svendsen and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. The two Norwegians have made a difference on narrow skis and missed a couple of targets in the head with the twenty-eight to be faster in the bottom and the veteran faster execution times to shoot. This resulted in a substantial balance, but the success was won by Svendsen for only 4 tenths of a second.
Stellar podium as the third step has risen Martin Fourcade, author of the best time skiing but slower to fire and forced to walk the'' ring of penalties once more the two Scandinavians. '' To give an idea of ​​the level of the current top-three think that the trio brings together nine World Cups, 152 wins and 291 podiums!
Fourth place for Evgeny Ustyugov as usual at his ease on the snow in Oberhof which also rewarded with the best result of his career the accuracy of Ukrainian Artem Pryma'' and'' s Estonia Kauri Koiv, surprises and unique day to conclude the test without errors along with Russian Alexey Volkov, seventh.
In Norway comes home'' other good test Thingnes Johannes Bø, ruler of the stage of The Grand Bornanrd reach, tenth with three errors. Very bad then the older brother Tarjei, even thirty-four missed targets.
Fair trial team hosts Germany with all five athletes started to finish in the top 25 and an eighth Arnd Peiffer. The Austrian team, albeit with a number of absences, he still picked up the ninth Dominik Landertinger. It should be remarked upon the performance of the Czech Michal Slesingr, and twelfth'' s season debut after missing all stages dicembrine due to repeated illness.
The'' blue piazzatosi better Lukas Hofer, 31 ° with two errors. However, in the light of expectations before the prize for best Italian of the day goes to Markus Windisch, in turn burdened with two penalties, the 38th and the first points of the season. Both will be in the game'' pursuit of tomorrow, which will take place from 12.30. Nothing to do for Dominik Windisch, 67 ° with five missed targets. Probably no one would fall at least managed to get within sixty to compete on Saturdays.
OBERHOF - SPRINT MASCHILE1. SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (2 +0) 26'' 44 "32. BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (1 +1) to 0" 43. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 +3) 21 "74. Evgeny Ustyugov [RUS] (0 +1) 27" 15. Artem Pryma [UKR] (0 +0) 28 "16. KÕIV Kauri [EST] (0 +0) 38" 27. VOLKOV Alexey [RUS] (0 +0) 39 "28. Arnd Peiffer [GER] (1 +1) 42" 99. Dominik Landertinger [AUT] (1 +1) to 42 "910. BØ Johannes Thingnes [NOR] (2 +1) 49" 7Clicca here for full results.
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Men Sprint Oberhof (GER)
SVENDSEN Emil Hegle
BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar
FOURCADE Martin
Biathlon - Oberhof
Stellar podium in the sprints of Oberhof. Svendsen beats Bjrndalen of 4/10, M.Fourcade third!
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