“Well done, Erik.” – “Thank you, Coach.”
What has he bitched about this “slimy” championship course, absolutely not lay him before; emphasis with which he has stressed that we now just anything, but could also nothing expected of him in Kontiolahti. Thus, under the motto: I’m going back there once, but really without any ambition. Whether it was all understatement, you never know when Erik Lesser. Because he can not be pigeonholed. On Sunday rushed the 26-year-old biathlete with crossed forearms toward the goal, 12.5 km pursuit in the legs, and no one was there to this world title still could snatch him. The Russian Anton Schipulin and Tarjei Bø from Norway followed only at a safe distance. Lesser said afterwards even the “perfect race in my first World Cup career, and then at the World Cup, as there is absolutely nothing to suspend.” Believe it or not, but it is the first victory in the career of the upper Hofer, which began in 2010 with a mission in the mixed relay -. In Kontiolahti
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Full happiness betrayed the champion of what it had with his gesture at the finish line up. “The arms were crossed for the guys in Aue.” Lesser is football fan, but one of the delicate, high school art à la Bayern or Barcelona estimates less, but the earthy, hard work, the sweat away. And therefore one’s favor all the second-division team of Erzgebirge Aue. City and club has a long mining tradition, and the crossed forearms, greeting the miners are actually hammers represent Auer club crest. Lesser sees parallels to the kickers: “I fight hard, the guys from Aue fought hard on Friday. That fits. “
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It looks as though the Lesser man for the big occasion. In the season rather inconspicuous, sometimes even with evil fluctuations during climax then ripe for the tip. That was a year ago in Sochi as the Oberhofer somewhat surprisingly won the silver medal in the 20-kilometer individual. And just as it did on Sunday Lesser had a hundred percent hit rate. Twenty shot, twenty hits, that’s just in the hunt man against man in a dismal performance, apart from the very difficult wind conditions. “I have given anything that it remains at zero,” Lesser said: “Especially in the final stage.” Eventually the thoughts circled around the question of whether there was something might be with the medal. “You can not help but shooting only counts the moment.”
© dpa Without shooting error: Erik Lesser secures the shooting gold
Without shooting error: Erik Lesser secures the shooting gold
And of course, you will be asked in such moments of triumph which markup for now higher have favor with Olympic silver or World Championship gold? “Last year in Sochi everything was right, everything was perfect, in a race in which everything has to fit – I see both on the same level.” But if he was his best performances for Major Events lift it out? Lesser has its own standards. “I had a race in Anterselva. Since I’m started running from 19th, have zero shot four times and was sixth at the finish. Since everything has passed. “
The difference: this time launched Lesser of fifth place after the sprint on Saturday in the persecution. “This of course is great if something happened at the World Cup.” It was the right answer to a championship Saturday when the German Skijäger had to cope with a severe damper, because the higher assessed colleague Simon Schempp and Arnd Peiffer Sprint arg had disappointed. So were Lesser – and to a lesser extent – gone Benedict Doll tenth or less than last hopes on Sunday the race
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Federal and exercise bikes Mark Kirchner spoke of “satisfaction”. He, too, felt a little reminiscent of Sochi. Because in Russia the “fast” success had failed. “I have been here already the first day unpacked the gravedigger mood because it was more fixated on Simon and Arnd,” he said. “If just has not shown a times the performance, someone else can jump in that breach. This has the Erik made sensational. “And he sends one more praise afterwards:” Erik knows exactly what is required for major events. A sign that he has moved on. He’s a guy who can appreciate certain things very rationally “It had not have taken much, and Lesser would have had hanging around his neck already on Saturday after the sprint silver -. When the last shot would have gone to the finish. “That was the best sprint my career,” Lesser said still satisfied before “his perfect persecution” presented.
It was something that strongly resembled the appearance during the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi: brief encounter between two men who work all year round in Oberhof, and does not have particularly many words even in exceptional circumstances. When Mark Kirchner his world championship short her in his arms, he whispered something in his ear. What exactly, both did not want to tell, but it was a bit like the Olympics have been. Because of the short dialogue had so been: “Well done, Erik.” – “Thank you, Coach.” So we celebrate under Thuringians
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