Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

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Very high chances that France tops the final medal table now after this gold medal.

Tandrevold once again blowing everything away in the standing shooting in such a way that Italy overtook Norway for silver.
 
Such a difficult conundrum. I really don't want more Børing parade victories, but I do also really want Tandrevold to get something out of this before her confidence is completely destroyed. I really like Ingrid, she's easily my favourite of the current Norwegian squad, male or female, but the fact is, pairing her with Johannes creates a monster paradox for me. Because, let's be honest, the only way they were losing that race was if QFM brought his A-game and Ingrid blew it.
 
If this was a women go first year, she'd have been absokutely fine.
It took her mate a long time to sort her head out and look at the few years she had, also she's still pretty young.
She'll come good again, and she would absolutely have taken being overall leader at this stage of the season.
 
And now Ben Ogden has Mono, classic American overtraining your young talents?
oh ffs, mono is a virus, it happens. Since this seems to be a big thing with you, can you give us your full rundown of Russian and Americans who you know for a fact have been overtrained? Based on your posts this should be a long list, more than just Gus Schumacher (who, based on several interviews, said his overtraining was the result of HIS OWN youthful enthusiasm).
 
Norway have put Tandrevold on the last leg. I hope they are out of contention before then. Its a relatively strong team on paper but they've been utter garbage this WC. France are going to have to really mess up to not win, hoping Germany can keep it interesting. Sweden also have been terrible this champs on womans side.
 
I'd love if Estonia won a medal. Very unlikely but it would be great.

Id still fancy France here with who's coming though
Tomingas is genuinely a really good biathlete whose ceiling has been rather limited by budget. She has a few top 10s to her name on the World Cup. Ermits is good for World Cup points but had her best ever result in the Individual, she's also very good in relays and was half of their surprise podium in a Single Mixed a couple of years ago. They have got four decent biathletes and you'd call them a decent midfield team, but on paper they ought not contend against the likes they're against - and they have frontloaded the team with their best athletes so they should drop away. This is a fairly typical alineation for that type of team, just like when Slovakia used to run Gereková-Kuzmina-?-?, and before they had a strong enough team to compete for podiums, we used to see the Czechs go Vitková-Soukalová-?-?, Belarus go Skardino-Domracheva-?-? and Italy go Vittozzi-Wierer-?-?.
 
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Well, the script seems set now, should still be a battle for bronze given Germany had to sub Preuß out, otherwise you'd have expected them to overcome Talihärm and Juppe fairly easily, but gold and silver ought to be set now. But we do need to thank a few people for making this race better than it seemed on paper. Regina Ermits and Tuuli Tomingas for their overperformance as well as the first two Norwegians for recovering their form, and Sophie Chauveau for her underperformance bringing a deficit to the French as otherwise they would probably have just skied off into the distance.

Edit: hmmmm. I really like the German team and it's a nice story for Schneider to come in and save a medal at the last minute, as well as for Grotian as the phenom-in-waiting, but Estonia would just be such a wonderful story. I mean, 4th would still be an incredible achievement and a super memorable one, but just imagine the celebrations of a medal there. They've got the Junior World Championships coming up in Otepää, and it could be GREAT for business for the sport up there.
 
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