There are many new faces in the Russian biathlon team. Where did the old ones go? "We are not doing enough against the backdrop of Russia"

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The biathlon season 2018-2019, which started after the Olympics in South Korean Pyeongchang, has not yet begun, promises to be very difficult for Russia. It's time to experiment and innovate! The country, the fans, and the athletes themselves need and appreciate medals, any, and especially Olympic awards, medals of world championships, World Cup stages! And, firstly, we need at least the admission of athletes to international starts and, of course, it’s scary to imagine what will happen with the admission to the Olympic Games 2022 in China! Because in today's political realities, this may not happen. Yes, yes, they did, everything is possible. After doping scandals with Ekaterina Yurieva, Irina Starykh and Alexander Loginov, after a successful Winter Olympics Sochi 2014 hosted four full seasons. The results and expectations for fans eager for victories are disappointing. A positive moment - in the past three post-Olympic seasons, Shipulin has made progress in the overall standings of the KM, Garanichev and other biathletes have World Cup medals, Yurlova has gold in the 2015 World Cup and bright gold in the men's relay at the 2017 World Cup, and on the other hand, the Russian has zero medals national team at the 2016 World Cup in Oslo-Holmenkollen, Shipulin regressed in the World Cup total!

Now the national team of our country has a completely new composition, with new leadership, the president of the RBU, the board of the organization, a completely different coaching staff, now without any foreign coaches... Now the head of the Russian biathlon team is Anatoly Khovantsev, who prepared the team for the new season of the World Championships and the upcoming World Cup 2019 in Östersund, Sweden, in a few months. In pre-season training, the men's team was divided into two conditional groups: the first is the Khovantsev group, in which more experienced biathletes were trained: Dmitry Malyshko, Alexander Loginov, Anton Babikov, Maxim Tsvetkov, Evgeny Garanichev, Alexei Volkov, Alexei Slepov, Pyotr Pashchenko and Semyon Suchilov . And the second group, called the reserve, with coaches Sergei Belozerov and Sergei Idinov, the team included more promising young people: Nikita Porshnev, Eduard Latypov, Ivan Tomilov, Alexander Povarnitsyn, Evgeny Idinov, Igor Malinovsky, Matvey Eliseev and Vasily Tomshin. Later joined the base Olympic champion, the leader of the Russian national team Anton Shipulin, who only in the fall announced his decision to continue his sports career and now he trains with the team according to plans agreed with him personal trainers Kryuchkov and Gerbulov.

In the women's team, there are no fewer changes, but rather even more. The most stable in the 2016-2017 season, Tatyana Akimova, took a break from training and is missing this season, as well as Daria Virolainen. Olga Podchufarova, Irina Uslugina, Svetlana Sleptsova and Olga Yakushova completed their careers. Women's team try to strengthen the world champion Ekaterina Yurlova and the most experienced Irina Starykh, adding Uliana Kaisheva, Svetlana Mironova and Victoria Slivko. Well, the main emphasis is on the rejuvenation of the team: Valery Vasnetsov, Kristina Reztsova, Ekaterina Moshkova, Anastasia Egorova, Evgeny Pavlov, Anastasia Morozov, Alexander Alekseshnikov, Margarita Vasilyeva, Irina Kazakevich and others who may well qualify for a place in the national team and with a successful coincidence, join the main team of the Russian Federation and get to the Olympics in Beijing.

Upcoming Cup peace will pass without the participation of Daria Domracheva, because she announced her retirement, by the way, like her husband Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. It is worth noting that seven former Russian biathletes received permission from the Russian Biathlon Union to compete for the national teams of Ukraine and Belarus. Nikita Lobastov, Elena and Irina Kruchinkina, Anna Musatova and Arina Yaborova will now compete in the Belarusian national team. The Ukrainian team will be strengthened by Ekaterina Bekh and Anastasia Rasskazova. So this season, as always, you will not be bored, it will be very interesting! For the main trophy of the season, Big Crystal Globe(BHG) only Anton Shipulin could fight, but this season there are no such goals and you can be sure that Anton will do everything to compete for the medals of the main start, the 2019 World Cup. And to everyone Russian athletes if not for the BCG, then for the medals of the World Championships and stages of the KM 2018-19, you can and should fight in every race! An excellent example of this is our 2015 world champion Katya Yurlova! So we believe in victory to the last, support our favorites with all our might and cheer for ours!

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The Russian women's team performed well in the relay at the second stage of the World Cup in Austrian Hochfilzen. Despite the presence of two newcomers in the team, our team was one of the contenders for the prize-winning place throughout the race. It was not possible to rise to the podium, however, with such a composition, fourth place is quite a decent result.

Evgenia Pavlova, who ran the starting stage in the World Cup, performs only the first season. And a week ago, in Slovenian Pokljuka, she broke into the elite on the move, finishing twice in the top 10 - in the sprint and the pursuit. The relay debut was also a success. Having made only one miss and lost almost nothing directly at a distance, Pavlova ran her segment seventh, slightly behind the leaders.

At even stages - the second and fourth - the coaching staff decided to put proven fighters. This is the 2015 World Champion individual race Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht and Irina Starykh. But between them, Valeria Vasnetsova entered the fight. At the beginning of her six-kilometer distance, immediately after the relay, a native of Udmurtia was fourth. As a result, Vasnetsova lost only one position, largely due to unrest at the firing lines. Two misfires in the prone position and one miss in the standing position.

In the 2016/17 season, Valeria had one episodic participation in the World Cup race, she became a full-fledged athlete of the first national team of the country this season. So far, the best personal result - 13th place in the "individual" on the track in Slovenia.

The winners in the women's relay race were the Italians, who had not achieved such serious team success for a long time: Lisa Vittozzi, Alexia Runggaldir, Dorothea Wierer and Federica Sanfilippo. In the battle for the "silver" at the finish of the distance, the Swede Hanna Oberg was ahead of the Frenchwoman Anais Bescon. The Russians lost 47 seconds to the winners.

Our girls retained their third place in the intermediate standings of the Nations Cup. Recall that before the start of the season, the head of the Russian Biathlon Union, Vladimir Drachev, set the goal for the women's team to be in the top three. overall standings. So the noticeably updated team is still coping with the task.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the executive committee took place in Hochfilzen International Union biathletes (IBU). The transition under the banner of our national team of Kristina Ilchenko, who previously played for Belarus, was approved. Note that this athlete comes from the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, for our closest neighbors, she began to run since the fall of 2015, since in Russia it was unrealistic for her to break into the main team at that time. And now Ilchenko has returned. She is allowed to start from January next year. New head IBU Swede Olle Dahlin said at a press conference following the results of the executive committee that the organization soon intends to change the criteria for changing sports citizenship.

The results of the men's relay at the stage in Hochfilzen became known after the signing of this issue of "RG".

What they write about the golden double of the Russians in relay races at the World Cup stage in Oberhof. Most journalists are concerned about their own problems.

VG: "The shooting is really bad"

The Norwegian edition of VG paid all attention to the problems of their men's team.

"In the absence of the Be brothers, it will be very difficult for the Norwegian national team to count on good results at the World Championship. And this causes serious concern.

"We have Tarja and Johannes, but we don't have a clear third and fourth number today," says Olympic champion Halvar Hanevold.

The team, which was played by Shestad Christiansen, Lars Birkeland, Erlend Bjöntegaard and Henrik L "Abbe-Lunn, took only seventh place in Oberhof, losing a minute and 43 seconds.

The team was especially bad with shooting. “Obviously, Bjontegaard and L'Abbe-Lunn, who fled the last two stages, have seriously weakened their positions in the fight for a place in the team. What we are doing is not enough, especially against the background of what Russia is showing," expert Ola Lunde said.

NRK: "Organizers need to take action"

The Norwegian channel NRK was most worried about the numerous falls during the relay races.

"The men's and women's relays in Oberhof were marked by numerous falls. And the organizers must definitely take action.

When you see that biathletes who are good at going down the mountain fall and fall, something needs to be done. You can't leave everything as it is, it's not normal. You need to either change the terrain, or do something with the track. Of course, one can say that biathletes are always responsible for speed and falls, but this is already too much, says Olympic champion Halvar Hanevold.

The Norwegian team avoided crashes on the track, but were just terrible at the turn - two penalties, 16 extra rounds and a final seventh place."

Sport Bild: "And then the Russian girl went"

The German publication Sport Bild is worried about how the German women's team lost the first place.

"What a fun women's relay at the World Cup in Oberhof turned out. Twice the Germans fell during the race, but still ended up on the podium. Moreover, until the last shooting, everything looked like we would win ...

“It was very fast - once, and I was already lying on the ground. And then the Russian girl drove off,” Franziska Hildenbrand said about her fall and collision with Margarita Vasilyeva, who caught on a German woman lying on the snow.

But even so, Hildebrand passed the baton to Franziska Preuss as leader, and she kept the lead. On final stage Denise Herrmann cleared all targets in prone shooting. But then the standing shooting started...

Herrmann went to two penalties and first place swam away. The Russians win at our home stage. Germany is in second place.

This victory was the first for the team in the last seven years in the cup competitions. Russian biathletes constantly occupied either second or third places, but only today they climbed the podium in the rank of winners.

Evgenia Pavlova, Margarita Vasilyeva, Larisa Kuklina and Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht ran under the tricolor today. Our shooting skiers completed the distance of 4 to 6 kilometers perfectly – without penalty loops. At the same time, the biathletes used up 8 additional cartridges.

The Russian team finished ahead of Germany by 33.5 seconds. The result of the Russians is 1:18:46.3.

Czechs were third. The fourth place in the women's relay race belongs to the biathletes from Norway, the fifth - to the French athletes. In sixth place is the team of Slovakia.

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Women relay, 4 x 6 km January 13, 2019

1. Russia - 1:18.46.3 (0 laps + 8 extra rounds)

2. Germany - backlog 33.5 (2 + 10)

3. Czech Republic - 36.7 (1 + 6)

4. Norway - 50.6 (0 + 9)

5. France - +01.08.4 (3 + 15)

6. Slovakia - 2.45.0 (3 + 11).