At the end of the World Cup in the Czech Republic, the German women’s relay goes into the trail without its best biathlete: Franziska Preuß wants to mobilize its strength for the last two tasks in order to fulfill her big dream of winning the overall World Cup.
Franziska Preuss is not in the German relay contingent on Sunday (4:45 p.m.). “That had been agreed for a long time,” said the 30-year-old after her disappointing 13th place in the pursuer of Nove Mesto in the “ARD”: “We already agreed in Lenzerheide that I was leaving tomorrow.”
When Selina Grotian, in the persecution on Saturday as the fifth best German, goes into the relay race together with Johanna Puff, Julia Tannheimer and Sophia Schneider, the overall World Cup cup is already on the way home. “I will drive home in the morning and attack with a fresh head in Pokljuka,” said the plan.
The persecution world champion of Lenzerheide had made “atypical” mistakes in Nove Mesto in Nove Mesto on Saturday, with three discs not hit, the race had run early. “I saved it quite well, but the child had fallen into the well after the first shooting.”
Preuss: “You fight for every point”
Since her great rival Lou JeanMonnot collected a lot of points and reduced the gap to Franziska Preuss to 36 points, two World Cups before the end of the season are still in danger. That is why she didn’t let her head hanging in the race. “That buzzes with it. Of course you would let go, but I can’t afford that,” said Preuss: “You fight for every point. That was the motivation on the final round.”
Already at the sprint on Friday, Preuss, who had still shone with four medals at the World Cup in Lenzerheide, had to be satisfied with 15th place.
The victory on Saturday went to Frenchwoman Julia Simon, who was fastest ahead of Hanna Öberg and Océane Michelon.