Biathlon: a victory in preparation for Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold
At midday on Sunday, after the mass start of the opening Norwegian biathlon races in Geilo (Norway), Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold was all smiles. It has to be said that the four-time world champion won this final preparatory race.
Above all, the native of Bærum (Norway) flipped all five pallets in the last shot of the race. It was a perfect sequence, against the likes of Dorothea Wierer, Ragnhild Femsteinevik and Anne Bunemann de Besche, and was a welcome change from the black holes Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold has experienced in recent seasons.
“I got the shot off today. It was really fun,” she told TV2.
Drawing positives from this kind of performance
On Saturday, however, the Norwegian missed out on the sprint in a similar situation, missing two standing targets after a prone 5/5.
This time, she went on the offensive at the last standing shot and distilled her balls,” analysed Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. That’s how we like to see Ingrid [Landmark Tandrevold]. Let’s hope she’s solved the puzzle of the standing shot.
Accustomed to devoting more energy to her poor performances than her good ones, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold now wants to change her view of things, in particular by taking advantage of this winning mass-start. ” The new Ingrid must keep this as a positive memory”, she concludes.
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