Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[BullsFan22]

...and he does his thing on the Zorzi climb as ever. I do dislike the way they always lay the course out with that being the last climb here, it's too decisive to be like a Northug step finish (which they've tried to replicate in Antholz with the reprofiling for these games), but it's not long enough to tilt things back towards some of the endurance specialists like Chiesa or Pojer which would introduce tension as to whether or not Klæbo could keep the attack pace up for the whole climb, whereas we know full well he can on Zorzi and nobody can even remotely go with the pace he can generate on that uphill. How Johannes is still so fresh after such a program is just wild.

Oh I think you know how

 

[BigCoward]

Fis has corrected now. No idea what happened there.

 

[BigCoward]

Anyone but a French or Norwegian biathlon athlete please.. Norway's men have won 11 golds just on xc skis.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Anyone but a French or Norwegian biathlon athlete please.. Norway's men have won 11 golds just on xc skis.

It's going to be one of the French, most likely. They've been the strongest team all season long overall, they're the only team that didn't rest up for the last World Cup before Antholz, they're performing at their absolute peak both on the skis and in the range, and while everybody else is looking dead on their feet, the French are still performing as though completely fresh, as we saw from Fillon Maillet yesterday.

 

[YavorD]

I doubt Laegreid would win even 25 of 100 sprints.

That's not I meant though.
I meant the 4 shooting races won by Ponsiluoma and Dale.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Bened sitting out to give Justine Braisaz-Bouchet a chance to repeat her heroics from last time around since she was in the WC top 15 but had no quota as the French already had four in the startlist due to medals. And this was exactly how Dale-Skjevdal got his start yesterday, too.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Patrick now wants them to make the targets bigger so that more targets are hit and we can have more people sprinting for victory, because he's a complete tool and I hate him.

 

[kingjr]

Patrick now wants them to make the targets bigger so that more targets are hit and we can have more people sprinting for victory, because he's a complete tool and I hate him.

F*ck my life. Btw, remind me that I have to go on a rant about Rob Hatch's commentary of the Short Track events yesterday.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Patrick now wants them to make the targets bigger so that more targets are hit and we can have more people sprinting for victory, because he's a complete tool and I hate him.

I'm sure Lampič and Tandrevold supports this message.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

F*ck my life. Btw, remind me that I have to go on a rant about Rob Hatch's commentary of the Short Track events yesterday.

He followed this less than five minutes later by thanking the heavens Sweden and Italy got medals so it wasn't all Norway and France, as though those medals hadn't come because Ponsiluoma and Vittozzi shot better than the Norwegians and French under pressure in those races...

Preuß going out with a whimper rather than a bang. People who had been going well seemingly running out of steam, Vittozzi, Kirkeeide etc.. But Julia Simon and Lou Jeanmonnot are still flying, of course.

 

[BigCoward]

I'm sure Lampič and Tandrevold supports this message.

For lampic they would have to be literally barn doors

 

[Libertine Seguros]

We get a clean sweep in XC from a man with Northug's skillset, and now more biathlon glory for a woman with Northug's legal plot armour.

Edit: ok, so maybe she IS finally tiring, not outpacing her own teammate.

 

[kingjr]

Michelon will take this, right?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I screamed when Voigt missed the last shot despite knowing she likely wouldn't have gotten a medal anyway.

Now give me that Czech gold.

 

[kingjr]

Or maybe Simon after all

 

[Libertine Seguros]

More French over superiority on the skis. Simon is going to pass Magnusson and medal too. So over this.

 

[kingjr]

More French over superiority on the skis. Simon is going to pass Magnusson and medal too. So over this.

I can see why Siegfried Mazet is returning to France, at any rate. Go where the best athletes are and then take credit for their success.

 

[BigCoward]

I can see why Siegfried Mazet is returning to France, at any rate. Go where the best athletes are and then take credit for their success.

Imagine If we find out he's a fraud and been holding the Norwegians back all these years. And they do a 2024 pog.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

5th place is not a bad farewell for Doro, but a medal would of course have been nice. At the other end of the scale, you wouldn't be surprised if Jeanne Richard had messed with Preuß's riffle instead of Michelon's by mistake.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

5th place is not a bad farewell for Doro, but a medal would of course have been nice. At the other end of the scale, you wouldn't be surprised if Jeanne Richard had messed with Preuß's riffle instead of Michelon's by mistake.

It is funny that the crime of tampering with a rifle gets you demoted to the IBU Cup right before the Games, while several years of stealing and defrauding multiple teammates and a criminal conviction gets you what turns out in the end to amount to a one week suspension. Richard just didn't think big enough.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

It is funny that the crime of tampering with a rifle gets you demoted to the IBU Cup right before the Games, while several years of stealing and defrauding multiple teammates and a criminal conviction gets you what turns out in the end to amount to a one week suspension. Richard just didn't think big enough.

I mean, it‘s all about one being a biathlon racing thing and the other being a crime that doesn‘t say anything about your racing mindset. Punishment for credit Card fraud should be made in fines or prison sentences, not in being banned from your job.

 

[KZD]

France is going to make the women's biathlon races as boring as Norway makes the men's XC skiing races, besides dominating the Olympics and having Jeanmonnot likely winning the World Cup overall, they currently have 6 out the top7 spots in the IBU Cup overall.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I mean, it‘s all about one being a biathlon racing thing and the other being a crime that doesn‘t say anything about your racing mindset. Punishment for credit Card fraud should be made in fines or prison sentences, not in being banned from your job.

It's more about how she was originally given a six month suspension by the biathlon federation.

Then it was changed to one month with five months' suspended.

Then it was changed to a backdated one month so that 3/4 of it was served before the racing started for the season.

That's before you get to at least one of her victims still being on the team, of course. At least the known others aren't on the squad anymore.