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In the relay of the World Falun Germany broke the "curse of the Fall of the Wall", or wins a medal 'gold in the relay of a great event for the first time since reunification in 1990.
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In fact the success of West Germany in the Olympic Games in 1988 Calgary had not pi & ugrave; followed by statements in the team event n & eacute; within the world champion, n & eacute; Five circles in competitions.
This long fast has ended quest''oggi thanks to Tino Edelmann, Eric Frenzel, Fabian & Rie szlig; and the Johannes Rydzek. The Germans have always done Beagle, except for a brief moment in which to launch, at the instigation of a departure to spur beat Magnus Moan, the command & egrave; formed a quintet then shattered by an attack of their own Edelmann.
It & egrave; soon understood as the 'opponent of Germany in key victory would be Norway. Frenzel has predictably gained ground on H & aring; vard Klemetsen AFTER THAT & eacute; Rie & szlig; the & egrave; failed to prevent the 'hooking Mikko Kokslien. Finally Rydzek has even taken off of J & oslash; rgen Graabak fly away towards a triumph achieved very significantly.
In fact the first medal 'gold of the united Germany & egrave; was obtained with four Combiners from as many L & auml; nder different, two dell''Ovest (Rydzek with Bavaria, Baden-Wü; rttemberg with Rie & szlig; le) and two dell''Est (with Frenzel Saxony, Thuringia with Edelmann).
Norway, as formed by said Moan, Klemetsen, Kokslien Graabak and won the 'silver. You can not & ograve; some speak of disappointment in the round, but undoubtedly the Scandinavians appeared slight favorites for success after the segment jump. In any case it is their first podium of Falun in 2015 in the Nordic combined.
Bronze medal for France, formed by Fran & ccedil; ois Braud, Maxime Laheurte, Sebastian Lacroix and Jason Lamy-Chappuis. The Bleus were confirmed on the podium after winning in Val di Fiemme in 2013 while remaining in a double boiler over Teutonic and Norse, but still keeping perpetually safety margin over his pursuers.
Came out quickly from the fight for the medals' Austria and Japan, for which instead the word "disappointment" & egrave; nailed it. Not so much for staying off the podium, as never having been a factor in the race for the top-three.
However, these two teams have been beaten at the finish line in the sprint dall''Italia who got un''eccellente fourth.
Someone dir & agrave; that the World Cup only count the medals, and & egrave; true up to a point, because & eacute; actually & agrave; for the Italian movement - now represented by Armin Bauer, Lukas Runggaldier, Samuel Costa and Alessandro Pittin - today's result is beyond pi & ugrave; optimistic expectations of the vigil.
WORLD FALUN - STAFFETTA1. GERMANY [GER] 44''20 "72. NORWAY [NOR] to 23" 13. FRANCE [FRA] to 39 "64. ITALY [ITA] to 1''10" 15. AUSTRIA [AUT] to 1''10 "56. JAPAN [JPN] to 1''11" 5Click here for full results.
Store the two races with jumping on Normal Hill, in the coming days will be dealt with the evidence jump on Large Hill. Thursday on Igrave; 26 is disputer & agrave; the individual trials, while Saturday 28th the team sprint.
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Germany broke the "curse of the Fall of the Wall". Italian excellent 4 ^
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