With the German biathlon men, the mood after the totally failed sprint at the World Cup in Lenzerheide is so bad that frustration eats. The DSV sports director announces a thorough analysis of the failure.
After the disastrous sprint, the German ski hunters only remained the birthday cake of Philipp Nawrath. You want to “kill it,” said Nawrath, as the 18th, the best German. “You can annoy yourself for an hour or two, then we just have to check it off.” Frustration.
There is “nothing to talk about, that was nothing,” criticized sports director Felix Bitterling, criticized the performance of German biathletes, which, unlike women, are currently far behind the top of the world.
Shooting series with two or three mistakes are “just not good enough in the field and in the circumstances. We don’t need to talk about it for long,” emphasized Bitterling. There is certainly a need for speech and will also give one -on -one discussions. However, he was “not the first to ring in the song”.
Although the medals during the persecution on Sunday are out of reach due to the disastrous sprint, the German biathletes do not want to emerge the hunting race – especially to set an example.
“First of all, it is about a bit of reparation and that the boys prove themselves that they can do it better to get into a mental state for the second week of the World Cup where you can attack again,” said the sports director: “In Week two starts again and the medals are redistributed. “
Horn “hates” biathlon
Phillip Nawrath was still the best biathlete of the German Ski Association at the sprint on an indisputable 18th place. Justus Strelow was 30th, Danilo Riethmüller landed in 40th place. Philipp Horn was particularly frustrated after four mistakes in shooting and 44th place.
“I was so happy, felt really good and quick on the first round. And then you get up from the lying shooting and actually know that the World Cup has run. Chasing is screwed up, mass start is gone. It is just shit,” moaned The Thuringian with tears in his eyes: “I hate biathlon because it simply brings so much more disappointments than beautiful feelings.”