news’s experts, Ola Lunde and Synnøve Solemdal, were in the minutes before the start unsure for a long time whether it was possible to complete the race due to shifting fog. – Are you afraid that it might become a bingo race? – Yes, I’m a little worried about that. As I see it now, it is the biggest danger for Johannes. It is his great enemy now. Right now it’s quite nice, but a couple of minutes pass and then it’s almost impossible for them to see the flashes, Solemdal said a few minutes before the decision was made. The race starts at 2.30 p.m. – We can hope that there will be even conditions. I am very anxious that there will be nebula who come in and make certain people have a very bad relationship. But right now it’s clearly better, says Lunde after the decision was made to start the race as planned. The Norwegian shooting coach, Siegfried Mazet supports the decision to start the race as planned. – Now it is possible to stand and it will be OK, he says. – Are you a little worried? – Of course. We must be a bit lucky today, says Mazet. Thingnes Bø starts first Johannes Thingnes Bø is the big favorite in the sprint, having won all five sprints in the World Cup earlier this season. Overall, the Norwegian has been the big one in biathlon this season, with eleven World Cup victories in 14 attempts before the WC. Sprint was also the exercise where Thingnes Bø took his first WC gold in his career, when he won the sprint in Kontiolahti in 2015. However, it was Sweden’s Martin Ponsiuloma who started as reigning world champion in the exercise. Thingnes Bø is the first starter, in the race which you can follow and hear live here.
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