– He has had major problems in the start here, reported Ola Lunde about Johannes Thingnes Bø before the sprint start. Because the World Cup leader was back and forth between the mat and the trainers several times to get help looking at the weapon. The end piece was not attached well enough after he had polished the weapon before the competition, Lunde explained. – You always get nervous when Johannes acts like that. They fixed the part in the count’s time, but I would think it creates a bit of uncertainty before the first shooting, says news expert Harri Luchsinger. – There was a bit of drama there. The charging arm has been a little slow the last few days. I disassembled the gun this morning and dry cleaned it. When I got to the stand, the charging arm was dry and something had gone wrong. I couldn’t push the shot forward all the way. Patrick saw it and had it fixed, says Thingnes Bø himself. Started with a boom And on the track, Thingnes Bø started at a blistering pace and was a full 14 seconds ahead of Sturla Holm Lægreid already at 1.5 kilometres. But there was one roadblock and for a few kilometers it was Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen who led. The latter missed three times standing, and then Thingnes Bø was faultless. When he crossed the finish line, he was 56 seconds ahead of Lægreid – who finished third. – It’s crazy. It’s madness. It is in a separate world, a separate galaxy, exclaimed commentator Andreas Stabrun Smith. – He walks so enormously. It is clearly the best in the world, and he shows it once again, Lunde followed up. He also highlighted the weapons problem before the start in his tribute to the Norwegian, who won by his biggest margin of victory in a sprint ever. – It shows what lives in him, his ability to be calm. It is so easy to get stressed there and deliver poorly, but he is fantastic at putting bad things behind him very quickly, says news’s man on the stand. – I’m a mathematician, so I trust that if it’s fixed, it’s fixed, says Thingnes Bø, and at the same time says that he has rarely had such good skis. Big brother in the back seat He had more than himself to be happy about. NEW WIN: Johannes Thingnes Bø took his fourth straight sprint victory in the World Cup, and Norway’s 10th victory in a row. Photo: Darko Bandic / AP For older brother Tarjei Bø also impressed, and then finished in second place after flawless shooting. With that, it became a Norwegian triple in the sprint in Slovenia. – It is fantastic. I never get tired of winning. Once again a triple win and Tarjei on the podium, that’s very good, says the winner. – The Christmas training works very well for us. We have a fixed regime at my cabin at Skeikampen. It has worked wonders before, it will do so this year as well with a double win, says Tarjei Bø after the first podium of the season. – It was heavy. It was brutal to start skiing after a long Christmas period. Johannes showed his own class today, but I am very satisfied that I can stand on the podium with that race, says Lægreid to news after third place. WATCH LIVE: Biathlon print from Pokljuka.
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