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The 2014 Olympic silver medalist Selina Gasparin gets trembling. Switzerland falls out of the medal decision so early.
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Elisa Gasparin in action. She opens the race for the Swiss relay with a solid performance.
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Elisa Gasparin hands over to Selina. So far the world is fine. But then too many mistakes follow.
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Elisa Gasparin in action.
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It was not meant to be. The Swiss women’s relay misses the medals at the World Cup in Antholz. There is actually so little missing for the first Swiss World Cup medal in biathlon.
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It starts well. Elisa Gasparin gets away with a miss. She is sixth, only nine seconds behind the podium and hands over to her sister Selina Gasparin.
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But it happened at the 2014 Olympics. Selina Gasparin just doesn’t feel very comfortable at the shooting range in Antholz. She shoots three times in prone shooting. Standing there are also two errors.
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“I was trembling brutally”
“I was just trembling brutally at the shooting range,” the 35-year-old told SRF. In addition, she slept very badly. “I just thought: Please, please go in you stupid shots.” But the shots don’t go in. She is at a loss and doesn’t know whether to correct it. “If it starts to tremble, it never stops.”
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Switzerland falls far behind. Selina Gasparin is twelfth in between. After all, she ignites the turbo in the trail, improves to 9th place and hands over to Aita Gasparin 30 seconds behind.
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The 26-year-old gets away with only one mistake. For that she has a difficult run. After flawless standing shooting, she loses a lot of ground on the trail.
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Aita Gasparin can therefore not benefit from the numerous mistakes of the competitors. The youngest of the Gasparin sisters sends Lena Häcki 9th on the trail. The medals lag: 20 seconds.
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And hacki? It accelerates and takes full risk. In the cross-country trail, she immediately makes up a lot of ground. But she doesn’t run at the shooting range either. The 24-year-old does not hit twice lying down. Standing twice too. A total of eleven shooting errors are simply too many.
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Minimum goal achieved with rank 6
So there is 6th place at the end. The minimum goal has been met, the great chance of precious metal has been missed. After all: So far a 13th place was the best World Cup result of a women’s relay. Almost 30 seconds are missing on a medal.
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