Alexander GovorovKorrespondent SportAll materialsThe brilliant victory of Russian biathletes in the relay at the World Cup in Ruhpolding put an end to the determination of the composition for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Now it is clear that Alexander Loginov, Eduard Latypov, Daniil Serokhvostov, Maxim Tsvetkov and Karim Khalili will go to China. But will they be able to win in Beijing as well? The Norwegians paid the price for their experimentsThe senior coach of the Russian men's biathlon team, Yuri Kaminsky, put up the optimal composition for the relay in Ruhpolding. The mentor of our team decided not to experiment, unlike the same Norwegians who announced athletes from the reserve team. For which they paid. Already at the first stage, Alexander Andersen faced a serious problem. The Swede Peppe Femling suddenly started shooting at his installation. The Norwegian hesitated and did not understand what to do. The athlete looked devastated at the judges, asking them what to do. As a result, he lost more than a minute, and then shook two penalty loops. The judges counted everything and subtracted two minutes from Norway's time. True, this did not help them in any way. Actually, the Swedes also fell far down. Meanwhile, Karim Khalili did everything perfectly at the first stage. Clean shooting, a decent move, and now Russia has passed the baton in the group of leaders. For a long time, we had Belarusians, Ukrainians and Italians as rivals. If the last two teams did not have an even four, then the Belarusians had to be watched as carefully as possible. And then there's France and climbed higher thanks to the efforts of Emilien Jacquelin in the second stage.
