Winter sports: Biathletes long for a break:”A little tired”.

Before the Olympic dress rehearsal in Antholz, the German biathletes are longing for recovery, a renunciation of the exhausting last World Cup before the Winter Games in Pyeongchang (9th place). till 25. February) is not under discussion.

“It’s very useful for fitness to race, even though I haven’t been 100% physically restored,”said Mass Start World Champion Simon Schempp (Uhingen).

Team-mate Arnd Peiffer (Clausthal-Zellerfeld) also confessed to be “a little tired” after the home games in Oberhof and Ruhpolding, but the 30-year-old also said:”I’d like to take Antholz along with me, and afterwards I’d like to calmly take him one or two days shorter.”.

That this will also be necessary is mainly due to the altitude. The sprint, pursuit and mass start races will be held in Antholz from Thursday onwards at an altitude of around 1600 metres above sea level.”I hope that I will recover a little faster,” said the seven-time World Champion Laura Dahlmeier (Partenkirchen) after the World Cup in Ruhpolding:”This will certainly not be easier in Antholz with the altitude.

Laura Dahlmeier (Partenkirchen), Franziska Hildebrand (Clausthal-Zellerfeld), Denise Herrmann (Oberwiesenthal), Franziska Preuß (Haag), Vanessa Hinz (Schliersee), Maren Hammerschmidt (Winterberg), Simon Schempp (Uhingen), Arnd Peiffer (Clausthal-Zellerfeld), Erik Lesser (Frankenhain), Benedikt Doll, Benedikt Doll