On Tuesday, the 4×7.5 km relay race for men’s skaters was held earlier than originally scheduled due to the expected cold. The Norwegians got their gold before the French and the Russians. In fact, this sequence was the paper model, where in the first 27 and a half kilometers everything was completely upside down.
| Vettel led Norway’s Sgastad Christiansen from fourth to the gold medal (Photo: AFP) |
Among the first people, the Norwegians with high chances immediately started with a penalty kick through Lagrid, so the Russians turned first in front of the Belarusians and the French. The only thing that changed after the third string was that it increased from 10 seconds to half a minute Alexander Loginov its advantage. However, the Russians had to use two replacement cartridges for the 4th series, so there Emilian Jacqueline He appeared for 20 seconds, but recovered for more than half a minute until the switch.
But the Belarusians held out until the sixth shooting Maxim Farabig They had to join two punitive circles, here are the Germans, who were already a minute Johannes Bo Through the Norwegians as well.
In the last turn, there was a 40-second difference between the main rider and the chasers, plus Edward Latypov He didn’t go wrong with landscaping either. However, in the last permanent penalty shootout, there was a major turnaround as the Russians were forced into two rounds of penalty kicks, while the Germans were also increasing among the pursuers. for the French Quentin Fillon Millet I also used two replacement cartridges. not like that Vettel Sjestad Kristiansen, who fired all five shots and left the shooting range by 20 seconds. Fionn Maiet knew that he was out of reach for two and a half kilometers, did not strain the speed, so the Norwegian was almost half a minute ahead of the French and 45 with the Russians.
Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022
Skate shooting, men’s switch 4×7.5 km
1. Norway (Sturla Holm Lagreid, Tarjei Bö, Johannes Bö, Vetle Sjaastad Christianen) 1:19: 50.2 hours (1 + 7 shooting error)
2. France (Fabien Claude, Emilian Jacqueline, Simone Desteau, Quentin Villon Maillet) +27.4 seconds disqualified (0 + 9)
3. Russian national team (Russian national team (Said Karimullah Halili, Alexander Loginov, Maxim Tsvetkov, Eduard Latypov) +45.3 (2 + 6)
4. Germany +1: 04.3 minutes (1 + 9)
5. Sweden +1: 49.4 (1+13)
6. Canada +1: 56.3 (2+9)
National Sports reports on the venue: Gergeli Cohan, Erica Kovacs (text), Karoly Orvay (photo)
