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The stage of Pokljuka & egrave; open with the men's sprint race which took place in ideal conditions and therefore proved to average stellar. Any error in fact & egrave; It paid a very high price and the victory & egrave; went to those who & egrave; It turned out just perfect.
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Success & egrave; was the preserve of a Simon Schempp impressive, able to repeat what was done Friday & Igrave; last sprint in Hochfilzen. The German ended without making mistakes the second performance of the day on the slopes close, where component for & ograve; It beats all opponents pi & ugrave; dangerous.
It & egrave; resulted in a clear statement, obtained by a margin of 15 "2 sull''infinito Ole Einar Bj ø rndalen. The quarantunenne Norway took third podium of the season, the 174 & deg; career, confirming a state athletic brilliant in spite of the '' et & agrave; and covering in turn all the targets.
Just the "zero" to pull enables Ole Einar to establish the 'yet another record. From today, the veteran Scandinavian & egrave; the 'athlete to have closed without errors as many sprint races (33) together with the German Frank Luck, who is seen paired head to a ranking commanding solitary for over a decade. For Bj ø rndalen, to 47 & deg; zero all-inclusive & egrave; however still very far the absolute primacy of races without penalty payment agrave; held by Ricco Gross (59).
The step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; He went to a great Evgeny Garanichev, so far in the season unable to make full use of its competitiveness & agrave ;. The Russian has paid 25 "1 to the winner and has seen shaking his third top-up. In fact compatriot Alexey Slepov, party with high bib, & egrave; finally been perfect at the shooting range (its historic heel 'Achilles) and the finish line is & egrave; certificate just two tenths off the pi & ugrave; young and celebrated compatriot and still get the best result of his career.
Forced to give up the podium for a few tenths even Martin Fourcade, the 'athlete-ranking among those who are missing a target. The French concluded fifth, half a second from Garanichev, and preceded a few seconds Anton Shipulin, in turn forced to run a ring of penalty payment agrave ;.
Overall ranking today & egrave; dominated by the superpowers of the historical discipline. Norway, Germany, Russia and France have monopolized the top thirteen positions thanks to the "usual suspects" Quentin Fillon Maillet, Benedikt Doll, Tarjei B ø ;, Emil Hegle Svendsen and Simon Desthieux to which are added Alexey Volkov and Maxim Tsvetkov.
Filotto of "Fantastic four" & egrave; It was broken dall''americano Tim Burke, fourteenth, who finished ahead of compatriot Lowell Bailey and two Italians. & Egrave; therefore finally we got a positive test for the male team blue. Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer have both made a mistake and were respectively in sixteenth and seventeenth place. Race to forget for Christian De Lorenzi, eightieth.
The list of disappointed of day & egrave; led by Johannes Thingnes B ø ;, struggling with a very difficult start to the winter. The young Norwegian has even failed to qualify all''inseguimento because of well-5 penalty payment agrave ;. Unrecognizable Jakov Fak, started well but then literally collapsed gi & agrave; in the second round and finally only thirty-sixth with one missed target. However understandable the difficulty & agrave; of Arnd Peiffer, recovering from an illness, although forty-clean at the shooting range.
Still not steal the 'eye on the Czech team, whereas the Austrian dreamed despite having to do without the sick Dominik Landertinger and Simon Eder. Julian Eberhard set the fastest time of the day in the end, but three errors standing relegated him to the twenty-third place just behind his compatriot Sven Grossegger.
In the overall standings of the World Cup leader Martin Fourcade remains with 294 points, but Bj ø rndalen recovers some ground (255) and above Schempp & egrave; gi & agrave; moved up to third place with 228 bypassing Fillon Maillet (226) and Svendsen (216)
Tomorrow, at 14.30, & egrave; program in the women's sprint. The men will be back on track Saturday (11.15) with the 'pursuit.
POKLJUKA - SPRINT MASCHILE1. SCHEMPP Simon [GER] (0 + 0) 23''02 "52. BJ & Ø RNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (0 + 0) 15" 23. GARANICHEV Evgeny [RUS] (0 + 0) 25 "14. SLEPOV Alexey [RUS] (0 + 0) 25" 35. FOURCADE Martin [FRA] (0 + 1) 25 "66. Shipulin Anton [RUS] (0 + 1) in 28" 47. FILLON MAILLET Quentin [FRA] (0 + 0) 31 "98. DOLL Benedikt [GER] (0 + 1) in 33" 39. B & Ø Tarjei [NOR] (0 + 1) 36 "910. Alexey Volkov [RUS] (0 + 0) to 39" 8Clicca here for full results.
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