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today in the Slovenian Pokljuka launched the next stage of World Cup Biathlon. The first race was in the program individually. At the beginning of the day first started by men.

Weather Slovenian town of Pokljuka was good, and athletes to act in such circumstances, it was comfortable. The core group started the strongest after the 40's room, but the 10th went out to start the veteran Norwegian team Svendsen, who in his firing line was flawless and showed excellent speed. That it was the result of some reference point for other participants. But after a while the leaders went the distance this season and Bjørndalen Yaroshenko. Our athlete started the race too quickly, deciding to expand the force in the whole distance, but at the first shooting range made a mistake and was forced to work off their feet. At this time the Norwegian shot out clean and tops the list of leaders after the first firing. Of our guys to start shooting range also were accurate and Churin Kruglov. Ivan Tcherezov, Maxim Tchoudov also allowed one mistake. As for the German athletes, that they began to smear the day from the first stage and turn off virtually out of the fight for the podium.

Second firing line has been completely reversed. Those who have never missed a start, allowed one miss – it was Bjørndalen, Kruglov and Churin. And our leader had a chance to catch up with Yaroshenko leader. However, Dmitri that day were obvious problems with the shooting and the second firing line once again showed it. Two of our athletes miss unplug it from the candidates for the prizes. And then it was reported that the Norwegian Svendsen passed all stages of pure and became the sole leader of the race at the finish. Almost all the athletes in the race have already made their mistakes, and catch up with the Norwegian rocket was the whole problem. But, who started one of the last, Alexander Wolf, after two fire lines showed a perfect result in fire and move faster than the Norwegian two seconds. Also, without a miss was the Italian Cola athlete from Ukraine Berezhnaya, but they are somewhat inferior to the course leaders.

Third firing line completely crossed the winner of the World Cup last year, Mickey Grice. The German missed twice and it was the fourth in this race a miss. A third line brought the news that the Norwegian Bjørndalen made two misses and almost turned off from the fight for medals. In the race there was a situation reminiscent of chipping tree branches. The further move trails, the smaller the circle and have become contenders for medals. All the athletes admitted mistakes on and off from the fight for medals. Our guys tried to work out their mistakes on the track, but it's worse effect on the fire in the future. After the third shooting Germans caught up to the leaders of six, in which there were three.

Fourth stage firing was unexpected. Ukrainian athlete Berezhnaya and not allowed to miss him and moved into second place, ahead of the Wolf, which is still mistaken for the firing range. The Russians remained the last hope for medals in the face of Nikolai Kruglov, who came to the last record-fire with one miss. But to her it became clear that we see today is not even six leaders. Nicholas threw two slip out of ten. Bjørndalen also due to his phenomenal speed was the contender for the medals. The first four rounds he laid in the right place, but before the last shot of paused for 15 seconds and missed Th.

At the finish it became clear that the result of 10-th number Svendsen, today no one can beat. German Wolff had to play two and a half kilometers, 46 mb seconds, which was not easy. But ahead of the Ukrainian athlete, he still succeeded. To the surprise of the race should include the presence of three representatives of Ukraine in the six strongest, between them at the finish turned a battle for the podium. The result of this battle was the third Sednev, who was ahead at the finish of his compatriot alignment carefully on the three-hundredths seconds. The best was from our Ivan Tcherezov with five penalty minutes. As a result, a Norwegian won the race. The second and third were Alexander Wolf and Sergey Sednev of Ukraine, respectively.

Dmitry Klemeshev, Down-the-line.com

Biathlon. Third stage. Pokljuka. Men. Sprint. 20 km

Race Results:

1. Emil Svendsen (Norway) – 51:58.1

2. Alexander Wolf (Germany) – lag 48.6

3. Sergei Sednev (Ukraine) – 1:55.9

4. Oleg Berezhnaya (Ukraine) – 1:56.2

5. Friedrich Pinter (Austria) – 2:07.0 …

.. 17. Ivan Tcherezov (Russia) – 3:41.2 …

.. 23. Nikolay Kruglov (Russia) – 4:03.0 …

.. 25. Dmitry Yaroshenko (Russia) – 4:24.3 …

.. 41. Mikhail Kochkin (Russia) – 5:43.6 …

.. 46. Maxim Tchoudov (Russia) – 6:06.5 …

.. 53. Andrew Makoveev (Russia) – 6:52.4 …

.. 66. Alex Churin (Russia) – 7:59.7 …

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