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Alexander GovorovSport correspondentAll materialsThe excellent performance of skier Natalia Nepryaeva charged Russian fans with positive emotions on the first big day at the Beijing Olympics. The biathletes wanted to see the continuation of the banquet. And they provided it. True, after the mixed relay, no one seemed to have any nerve cells left. Nigmatullina managed a triple plus. The coaches chose the strongest representatives for men and women for the race. Uliana Nigmatullina, Kristina Reztsova, Alexander Loginov and Eduard Latypov — they were the ones who were supposed to compete for the first set of awards in biathlon. Nigmatullina was the winner of the relay. Although in the classic team race she is usually the finisher, because she has the best finish lap in the Russian team. But here the men finished the relay, so Ulyana had to open the race. At the first line, the Russian woman could not cope with the wind and only with the help of two additional cartridges she closed the targets. The backlog from the leading Italy was 16 seconds. Not critical, but alarming. But at the second turn, such a wind blew that the biathletes were simply demolished and knocked out of balance. Nigmatullina used all the additional cartridges available, but closed the installation. Phew, it's gone. Although the backlog was already approaching a minute. Ahead were Italy, Norway, Sweden, Belarus and France. Perhaps it was possible to evaluate Ulyana's performance at three plus.