Poiree wins biathlon sprint

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2006

HOCHFILZEN, Austria (AFP) — France's Raphael Poiree gave warning that he is back to his best by winning the men's World Cup biathlon 10km sprint. The four-time overall World Cup winner has not won a world class event since December 2005. But he clocked 24min 34sec without any penalties for missed targets to come back from a seven-second deficit at 2.2km from the line to come in ahead of Germans Michael Rosch and Sven Fischer.

"I was very sick at the beginning of December, but I knew that I had the ability to do something," said Poiree, who has been using the rifle belonging to his wife, Norwegian biathlete Liv Grete Poiree, since she retired in the spring. Poiree added that his objective remained the 2007 world championships. "I'll soon be a father for the second time, I...