Tomáš Krupčík in the archive picture in the abbreviated endurance race in Canmore, Canada.
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Krupčík spent quarantine in Jablonec nad Nisou. “I was healthy, I did antigen tests repeatedly. I lived alone and I was always bought by someone from my family,” he said on the federal website. Since the covid avoided him, he could train. “At the beginning I only skied in Jizerky to be alone. Then we trained in pairs with Milan Žemlička in Jablonec. We spent the last four days of quarantine in hypoxic rooms, where we had a similar height as in Anterselva,” he described the preparation with a national team colleague who found himself in the same situation.
After the outage, Krupčík feels a racing shortcoming, but he hopes to build on previous successful performances from Anterselva. He collected placements here at the interface of the second and third ten. An endurance race awaits him on Friday. “I really like Anterselva and I’ll even have a premiere here in my twenties. I’m curious about that. It can be treacherous here with a height, and I think the twenties will be quite painful here,” he mused.
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Usually, however, higher altitude does not cause him problems. It is in the endurance race that the decision will be made on biathletes, who will complete the participants qualified from the overall ranking of the World Championships in Sunday’s race with a mass start. “It’s good that one can be nominated for a massacre from one race. If I say that a little exaggeratedly, you just have to hit it and it can click,” remarked the experienced racer.
Žemlička, who is still waiting for the last tests at the end of the quarantine, should also arrive in Anterselva. He should join Ondřej Moravec and Jakub Štvrtecký in the quartet for Saturday’s relay together with Krupčík.
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