It looked to be yet another victory for the 35-year-old Kaisa Mäkäräinen when skidskyttecirkusen on Thursday took a sunny Hochfilzen.
the Veteran who last week won both the sprint and the pursuit in Slovenia shot a bom in the världscupsprinten in Austria – but the skiing there was hardly anything wrong on.
a problem.
the Italian Dorothea Wierer – second behind finländskan twice last week – was just as fast, also shot her a bom and ultimately won by six-tenths margin.
” What can I do? I did my best. But she was 0.6 seconds ahead of me, said Mäkäräinen to SVT.
” I didn’t know how much energy I had, but finally a good result, said the Wierer.
appointed as Finland’s most popular athletes. But she would stand at the start of the winter world cup was not obvious – then she after fjolårssäsongen took a timeout to think about the future.
she had certainly won the overall world cup title for the third time.
But in the OLYMPICS was finländskan as the whole of 2010-century belonged to the world elite medaljlös.
she continues at least one more season. And in Thursday’s sprint was both she and Wierer in a class of its own when the Russian (Ekaterina Jurlova-Percht despite the full shooting ended up 24 seconds behind.
Mona Brorsson became surprisingly tolva, in spite of a boom. But in general, it looked gloomy out:
Linn Persson 30:e (a bom), Hanna Öberg – back from the cold – 35:a (two boom), Emma Nilsson 42:a (two boom) and Anna Magnusson 82:a (four bom).
” I’m a little surprised, but clearly delighted, said Mona Brorsson to SVT.
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