Bleues sign their second success in three races this season and position themselves as serious Olympic claimants in Beijing, February.
Le Monde with AFP
The team of France, composed of Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, Chloé Chevalier, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and Julia Simon, won Friday, January 14, Ruhpolding Relay in Germany, counting for the Biathlon World Cup .
Bleues sign their second success in three races this season and position themselves as serious Olympic claimants in Beijing, February.
Beautiful efficiency shooting
Sweden by 35.1 seconds (Johanna Skottheim, Stina Nilsson, Mona Borson, Anna Magnusson) and 1 minute and 12.2 seconds Russia (Valeriaia Vasnetcova, Svetlana Mironova, Irina Kazakevich, Kristina Reztsova ).
Even if they took advantage of the absence of several caders of the circuit, including Swedish Sisters Hanna and Elvira Oeberg, formed for the optics of the Olympic Winter Games, the France team posted a great effectiveness at Shooting with only four pick-up balls in total.
At the end-to-end forepots, the blue have definitely departed to the mid -Course from the relay provided by Justine Braisaz-Bouchet. There is still a relay in the World Cup program on January 22nd in Anterselva (Italy) before the Olympic race scheduled for February 16th.