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Russia retains women's biathlon relay gold
by Magdalena Rosova

Russia has retained its gold medal in biathlon at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. France was second and Germany has won bronze medal. On Tuesday Russia won the women's relay biathlon gold medal ahead of France and Germany. The winning time of the Russian team was amazing 1hr 9min 36.3sec. On the final leg French Sandrine Baily managed to beat Germany and with time one hour 10min 09.1sec France finished with silver. Germany was only few seconds behind France, with time 1hr 10min 13.4sec it won bronze medal. After German star Neuner won mass start on Sunday, she announced she would not try to win a third gold and fourth Olympic medal because of mental fatigue. She added ! that she would love to see one of her team-mate win a medal. But without Neuner, Germany was not able to beat fast French quartet. Neuner is one of the fastest cross-country skiers and German team missed her in the final battle for silver. In the decisive third leg Russian Olga Medvedtseva produced a great display of cross-country skiing and it is mostly her credit that Russian team led 44.8sec over the Germans. When Russian Olga Zaitseva, who won silver medal in mass start on Sunday, shot well on the final leg, Russian team could be sure about their gold. On the third leg French Mari Dorin missed two shots and therefore got two penalty laps. But her great skiing kept France in touch and on the final leg France's Bailly beat Germany's Andrea Henkel and won silver for her country.

related story (sgx16580): http://latimesb! logs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2010/02/russia...
by Magdalena Rosova
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