Biathlon: time for the men’s relay in Ruhpolding
This Friday, the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding (Germany) continues with the men’s relay, which starts at 2.20pm. The French(Emilien Claude, Fabien Claude, Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Emilien Jacquelin), winners of the first two races of the season, will be looking to make it three wins out of three against their arch-rivals Norway (Sturla Holm Lægreid, Vebjoern Soerum, Tarjei Boe, Johannes Thingnes Boe).
Sweden(Viktor Brandt, Jesper Nelin, Martin Ponsiluoma, Sebastian Samuelsson) and Germany(Justus Strelow, Danilo Rietmueller, Johannes Kuehn, Philipp Nawrath) will also be serious contenders.
The complete start list
Men’s relay – 2.20pm
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- Same old, same old: the French selection for the Ruhpolding World Cup
- Ruhpolding: first World Cup podium for Emilien Claude, second in the individual race won by Vebjoern Soerum
- Emilien Claude on his first World Cup podium in Ruhpolding: “I don’t feel that my life is changing, but that hard work is paying off after four complicated years”.
- “I cried”: how Anna Gandler, his partner in the Austrian biathlon team, felt about Emilien Claude’s first World Cup podium in the Vosges
- “It’s a real nightmare”: 85th in Ruhpolding, Johannes Thingnes Boe put in the worst World Cup performance of his career
