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Heidi Bucher from Austria wins the wj sprint wc. She is physically imposing, built like Skistad and already qualified for the sprint quarterfinal at the Olympics, despite being only 19 years old.

And where is the Boonen option?!

Only against a way shallower talent pool.

Tbf, yesterday they had a really big crowd. The difference between the skis looks almost comical...

Waffles when he does his typical Crackhead diet to loose weight for the Tour?

Tbf, in person Anger looked skinnier than last year at the Tour de Ski and I read an article where he talked about loosing weight for the Olympics. With him specifically it could probably be that. With the rest it could really be the classic Calle "beach muscle training in the gym" approach...

What's your take on my theory that Anger focussed too much on weight loss? The lower half of his torso/mid section looked clearly smaller when I saw him in person at the races in Toblach.

True, I was mainly talking about Central Europe, the Biathlon talent pool here is almost comically small, yet it's able to go toe to toe with Norway, which has Oslo behind it. I had left Russia out for a reason, but you have a point when it comes to Sweden and Finnland.

Honestly, Pellegrino is a good 10cm shorter than the typical good double poler and gets wrecked in long double poling sections in distance races. The overall training is different, but give the fact that sprinters often already have the highest volume of dp training and are some of the most...

The Oslo thing should make them even more dominant, because in the rest of the world Biathlon arenas are pretty much in small lateral valleys in the middle of nowhere. As much as the Herring boys don't want to hear it, Russia also being a top xc skiing nation is just natural, if you look at...

Lacks Lorenzo Finn

I have more faith after this season, Ruuskanen and Anttola are the guys fir the future on the men's side and some of the women stepped up at the TdS. Today Matintalo had to quit because of lower back pain, she was crying at the finish.

Come on Nadja!

Or a pole. A bit of a gamble by Stadlobrr, she should have changed skis alongside Fosnaes