World Cup – Grand-Bornand: Julia Simon takes 2nd place in the mass start, behind Elvira Oeberg

Elvira Oeberg did it again. Julia Simon too. The first two of the pursuit on Saturday took again the first two places this Sunday, during the mass start of Grand-Bornand. The order remains unchanged. For 11 seconds, the Swede won ahead of the French. The two women each made two errors on the shooting range. But Oeberg was once again the strongest on the track, taking down her opponent on the last lap to get the second victory of her career, the day after the first. The Russian Kristina Reztsova completed the podium, the first of her career, at 12 “.

The affair had however started badly for Oeberg, which in the general comes to 30 points of Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, yellow bib and 6th this Sunday. The 22-year-old Scandinavian fouled on each of her two lying shots. She was thus, before the last three laps, 44 “behind a found Julia Simon, and was relegated to 15th position. A perfect standing shot later, she returned to 9th place but still had 36” of disbursements on Dorothea Wierer. . His salvation went through a general failure on the part of the five leading biathletes who stood in 7 “before the last shot. An improbable scenario which nevertheless occurred.

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Simon notably committed a fault. Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet two. Oeberg rushed into the breach. She just had to drop the Czech Jislova in the last lap, the only one at 20/20 this Sunday. A formality. Another biathlete had the best ski time. It is the work of Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, like the day before during the chase. The French shot was unfortunately not of the same standard for her. Her five faults relegated her to 15th place in the final, one row behind Chevalier-Bouchet (17/20). Anaïs Bescond did not take the start. Sick, she did not want to take the risk of compromising the rest of her winter.