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The sprint in Oslo-Holmenkollen has completely reopened the Women's World Cup, for whose capture has now become the favorite Tora Berger'' s last stage of his career before finally hanging up the skis on the nail.
Thursday 20 March 2014 6 minutes reading time
The Norwegian finished second cogent proof, the daughter of a step on the slopes competitive and perfection to the polygon, as opposed to a Mäkäräinen Kaisa stumbled into its worst shooting performance of his entire season.
The Finnish committed four errors well and did not go beyond the twenty-third position, seeing evaporate all his lead in the overall standings. Taking into account the waste, Mäkäräinen remains yellow bib with 781 points, but Berger has brought only 6 lengths and, at least for math, remains in the running also the winner of today's Darya Domracheva at -71.
The Belarusian now dominated the scene despite imposing a missed target by a margin of 10 "7 on the aforementioned Berger and 33" 0 of Susan Dunklee, clean shooting. '' The American has finally managed to get the first podium of his career after having touched repeatedly in recent years. The United States thus return in the top-three of the maximum circuit for the first time since 1990 when Anna Sonnerup closed a second sprint held in Walchsee.
Dunklee took third place in the final round having reason to Olga Vilukhina, forced to settle for fourth place by just one second. It should be said that the lowest rung of the podium would have been the preserve of Gabriela Soukalova, fifth at 4 "1 from the U.S., if it had not been the victim of an unusual fall again from the ground polygon.
Among the athletes are close to retirement, Ann Kristin Flatland has played a'' good race seventh, closing with an error just before Andreja Mali, born in 1977, for which however, are not yet clear future plans. The thirty-six got today one of its best results ever.
In terms of new recruits, however, are reviewed in the top positions of the German junior Laura Dahlmeier and Franziska Preuss, tenth and eleventh respectively. Among the young people is blatantly failed Tiril Eckhoff, fourth in the overall standings of the World Cup. L'' now twenty-four Norwegian wrong 4 times and did not even qualify for the'' pursuit.
At home Italy discrete trial Karin Oberhofer, nineteenth, and good performance of Nicole Gontier, twenty-fifth, both with two missed targets. Dorothea Wierer did not finish the race, retiring in the second round.
Mäkäräinen least has a reason to smile in spite of the bad race today because it has managed to win the Cup of specialty sprint with 367 points against 361 Berger and 254 of Domracheva. For the Finnish is the second small crystal ball of his career.
Tomorrow rest. Saturday at 13.00'' tracking the penultimate race of the season, which should allow Berger to wear the yellow bib, less than his "suicide competitive" and a fiction comeback Mäkäräinen.
Holmenkollen - SPRINT women1. Darya Domracheva [BLR] (0 +1) 22'' 18 "82. BERGER Tora [NOR] (0 +0) 10" 73. Dunklee Susan [U.S.] (0 +0) 33 "04. VILUKHINA Olga [RUS] (0 +0) to 34" 0 5. SOUKALOVA Gabriela [CZE] (0 +0) 37 "16. Anastasiya Kuzmina [SVK] (1 +1) 39" 87. FLATLAND Ann Kristin [NOR] (1 +0) 41 "88. MALI Andreja [SLO] (0 +0) 59" 39. HORN Fanny-Welle Strand [NOR] (0 +1) 1'' 01 "210. DAHLMEIER Laura [GER] (0 +1) 1'' 01" 5Clicca here for full results.
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Women Sprint Holmenkollen (NOR)
DOMRACHEVA Darya
BERGER Tora
DUNKLEE Susan
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