On Sunday, January 16, the final two races will take place as part of the sixth stage of the World Cup, held in Ruhpolding, Germany, which will be the pursuit race. We bring to your attention the forecast for men's pursuit.
The men's sprint on Thursday was won by Kentin Fillon-Maillet, who is currently the owner of the yellow jersey of the leader of the season. German Benedict Doll lost 7 seconds to him, but the next closest competitor, Belarusian Anton Smolsky, loses to the leader for more than half a minute. Bookmakers can understand that they consider the Frenchman a big favorite of the race, but still there is a desire to bet against Kentin, who could lose confidence after the disastrous performance of the French in the relay. In the team race on Saturday, the French team was also seen as a big favorite, but in the end remained without medals at all. A couple of penalty laps, and Fillon-Maillet will be overtaken immediately by a group of pursuers, and then the card will fall.
In the confrontation of the current leaders of the Russian national team, Maxim Tsvetkov will play, who will start 14 seconds earlier than Alexander Loginov, and at the same time he is more stable psychologically, while Loginov almost regularly misses with the last shot. It will not be easy for Fabien Claude either, because it was he who gave the impetus to the final failure of the French national team in the relay. Recently, his shooting has somehow gone completely wrong, while Philip Navrat looks more solid at the moment, having almost taken the gold medal from the Russian national team the day before. The young Norwegian Sverre Aspenes looks nice, who has an excellent rate of fire with a very stable accuracy, which is very appreciated in pasyuts. Our Daniil Serokhvostov has problems with the same thing – he works slowly at the shooting range, and sometimes allows failures in the form of 2-3 misses. A very tempting coefficient for Dominic Windisch, who showed himself well in the sprint and relay, which clearly indicates good form, but Martin Ponsiluoma still does not cause confidence, especially in the accuracy of shooting. And our last choice will be to bet on the Ukrainian Dmitry Pidruchny against the German Eric Lesser, who at the moment has obvious problems with endurance, and on the last lap of the relay he practically stopped at his stage.
