The last round of the women's sprint. Versions
Last lap in the women's sprint, opening the biathlon program at the Games-2010, for the majority of athletes was as if enchanted. Special Correspondent Sportbox.ru tried to understand why the curse had no effect on Anastasia Kuzmin, which is why so abruptly deposited Anna Bulygina and that prevented the rest of rossiyankam.
The first hypothesis - Skiing
Long beyond doubt that the track in Whistler would be very difficult for athletes. It was enough to look at the weather forecast - rain and zero temperature. Forecasters are not deceived: the sky dripped on Friday, because of what training has become a real challenge. Athletes sank in the snow swirled postponement of the race. By Saturday, the track resulted in a divine form, only the high price - used nitrate. This was the so-called emergency plan, which your correspondent a few days ago told the technical delegate Ski Federation Gregory Adam's apple. In brief, a chemical reaction with the nitrate route zaledenevaet, and move on it becomes much easier. Here only the snow, which in Whistler, and so fewer and fewer, it affects negatively. However, alternative capricious weather still not left.
Thus, the route has become more of an enigma for servismenov, because the snow is treated with saltpetre, half an hour before the race. Apparently, it failed to solve virtually anyone except the French women and Kuzmina. Rossiyanka amicably lost most of her opponents move, although allowed only one mistake on the quad, with a sharp rented it to the final round. It did not look like a Swede - a person Wolfgang Pichler most of the race has expressed sincere bewilderment. German women have not made it clear, both worked their skis together "shooting himself." Although Magdalena Neuner usually brings her rivals on the final lap almost a minute, here was unable to play in Kuzmina even a second. And let's press conference beamed Neuner and praising skis, the German team has obviously worked no better.
"Here at the eighty percent of the case in skiing!" - Repeated several times staring race Olympic champion Dmitry Vasiliev. "We will analyze the situation with servismenami!" - Abandoned after the end of the race in Russia on the head coach Vladimir Barnash, which was extremely disappointed by what had happened.
However, only a poorly chosen lubricant victory Kuzmina and in Russia on failure is difficult to explain. Agree, it is difficult to imagine that servismeny from Slovakia - is not very biathlon powers - worked better than Russia, German or Swedish.
Hypothesis Two - PSYCHOLOGY
This version of half an hour after the end of the sprint advanced Barnash, by the time noticeably softened. Do not agree with him difficult: Olympics - is a huge stress, and not everyone is able to withstand. Even experienced Olga Zaitseva admitted that alarmed, and the burden of responsibility does not allow rushed to the finish line faster than anyone else, even with "zero".
It is in the psychology is the secret of success of all three prizerok Saturday's race. Neuner, letting slip a second firing line, collected will in a fist and stopped to shoot on the wheel, the more that they do not in Whistler. Marie Doren, a feeling that we might not understand what happened. At the press conference sitting with an absentminded and repeated that he wanted to France, hanging out with friends.
A pro Kuzmin need special mention. From the Slovak athletes after insulting wrist injury received in December, no one expected nor demanded. Well, that at least had time to recover for the Olympics. Kuzmina day before the sprint told reporters that the trains "on rasslabone. Rasslabon eventually resulted in gold medals. That's what it means - do not cheat yourself!
The hypothesis of the third - "PHYSICS"
If psychology can be a fairly short rumors to change, and skiing - properly lubricated, the "physics" during the Olympics is hardly possible to bring up. And this is the worst.
When Anne left Bulygina second firing line as a leader with a good handicap before Kuzmina, in the camp of Russia's national team came a noticeable enthusiasm. "I told you in the transfer of Gubernievym that our Bulyga - clever, and could surprise!" - Shaking his fist in the air, Alexander Tikhonov. A passing Slovakian coach, he playfully nudged in the side - they say by placing each other for medals.
But with each control abroad optimism dwindled. At this point, one of the trainers sadly said: "With the finish Ani often a problem ... '
Apparently, it is not only in skiing. Brilliant passing most of the distance, Bulygina did not calculate the force. The problems with "physics" and said SLEPTSOVA who failed to "zero" to get in the top ten. "I huddled muscles had no strength to run, we're obviously not at peak form," - has always stated outright biathlon.
The question arises: if the peak shape should come not now, during the Olympics, then when? During the ninth phase of the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk?
However, sound the alarm and asking this question until the coaching staff early. We all remember the statement of team Russia national football team at Euro 2008, when the team looked weak in the launch game with the Spaniards, but then was struck by his perfect physical education throughout the world.
As rightly said in Russia on the coach Leonid Guriev, ahead of four other races. "Users need to be!" - He reassured. We - we believe.
Dmitry Simonov, Whistler,
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