Russia (bbabo.net), - Russian Kristina Reztsova finished ninth in the 15 km individual race. It seems far from the medals? Not at all, only one inaccurate shot separated Christina from the pedestal.

After the mixed relay, in which Reztsova won bronze as part of the national team, she told the author of these lines literally the following: “The medal will at least give Olympic confidence. For me, as for a person who is at the Olympics for the first time ... you still doubt a little , whether you can or not, although you understand, the opponents are the same as in the World Cup, the races are all the same. Today I realized that there are chances."

On Monday, those chances were greater than ever. In terms of speed, Christina was habitually good even at such an exhausting long distance: sixth speed among all participants. Another thing is that shooting plays a key role in the "prostitute". There are four firing lines, for each miss - not a penalty loop, as in other races, but plus a minute to the final time. When there are a lot of such minutes, it is impossible to play them with your feet. On Monday evening, the weather for shooting at Zhangjiakou unexpectedly favored. The wind that exhausted the biathletes in the mixed relay and, according to the same Reztsova, "made me pray," suddenly subsided: I don't want to hit. But Christina did not succeed a bit: two misses. And what a shame - on a more comfortable "prone" for shooting.

“I don’t know where these two misses come from,” Christina admitted honestly. - I was confident in my shooting. I got the first three. Probably, if she had suffocated, she would have missed the first shots. So my speed on the third lap has nothing to do with misses. For what reason, I don't know yet.

And the most offensive: miss Reztsova at least once less, to be her Olympic champion. After all, the winner of the individual race, Denise Herrmann, who made only one mistake at four frontiers, was weaker at a distance. Although, according to her initial profile, she was a skier and in Sochi 2014 she even took bronze in the relay.

“Now I’m offended, and I’m angry with myself, but this day it won’t go anywhere,” Reztsova told about her emotions. - Misses will definitely not dream. Find out what was the mistake, and draw a conclusion from this.

Christina will still have chances to prove herself. Ahead of the sprint, pursuit and mass start. And also a relay. But in order for it to work out, the rest of the girls should also pull up. And they performed in the individual race is not very important. Svetlana Mironova showed the 23rd time, Evgenia Burtasova and Ulyana Nigmatullina took 77th and 78th places.

And on Tuesday, our guys will try to compete for medals in the same discipline. Alexander Loginov, Eduard Latypov, Karim Khalili and Maxim Tsvetkov will take the 20-kilometer distance. Khalili, by the way, became the third in the individual race at the last stage of the World Cup before the Olympics.

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