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Dorothea Wierer ready for grand finale: "I don’t know whether I will laugh or cry"

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Biathlon legend Dorothea Wierer will close her glorious career on Saturday with the’last Olympic race, the mass start in Antholz. The three-time world champion hopes to close with a smile in front of her audience.

“It’s a good thing there are now two days of recovery because I’m a little tired, also because I know I’m going to have a hard time sleeping. It will be a little different: on the one hand there will be a lot of expectations, on the other hand I will try to enjoy it a little bit ” are the words reported by fondoitalia.it.

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Dorothea Wierer wins her third Olympic medal in the mixed relay after bronzes in Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018.
"Let’s say it was not so easy today to manage emotions. I was very nervous, I was trembling, my legs were heavy".
Lukas gives her the change in a very good position in the mixed relay that opens the blue Olympic program.
"It’s beautiful to open like this, it’s a nice gift also for all those who work behind the scenes".
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Wierer has been the staple of the blue biathlon for years, she began practicing the discipline in 2000.

Incentivized by her brothers, she experiences a'formidable escalation that takes her to the roof of the world.
First ever Italian woman on the Olympic individual podium thanks to bronze in the Beijing 2022 sprint.
In his palmares stand out 12 world medals including three individual golds and one team gold.

In 2019 she became the first tricolor biathlete to win the overall World Cup.

Bis the'following year for a total of six Crystal Spheres counting specialties.
Conquers Specialty Cups: individual in 2016 and 2021, pursuit 2019 and mass start 2020.
Out of the range he loves reading, relaxes with yoga and long bike rides.
She is romantically linked to'former cross-country racer Stefano Corradini, whom she married in 2015.

Wierer, who has already won a silver medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics, is still not imagining what the end of her career will be like: “I don&#8220t know what it will be like, maybe I will cry or laugh, I don&#8217t know. Everyone is aiming for the best. Although it will be the last race, I will try to give my best as in all the races so far so I hope to have fun”.

The South Tyrolean athlete, on the other hand, failed to shine in the relay, missing four times at the range: “I did not expect that. It was certainly not a good experience, but this is biathlon. I don’t know why it happened, maybe I pulled too much the first round to catch up on the others who were already finishing shooting and maybe I overdid it. There was zero wind, I tried to double check, so I can’t explain these mistakes. Being in the wake I don”t know how the skis were because I had few comparisons”.

Wierer, who made her World Cup debut in 2009, has won four career Olympic medals, 12 rainbow medals, and has won 22 World Cup races, 17 of them individual. She’s been one of the very few biathletes to win in all seven biathlon race formats during her career.

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