Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[QueenStagiaire]

Maybe the German Men‘s Biathlon team just needs to switch the World Cup and IBU Cup coaching staff and all that. After locking out the podium in the last IBU Cup pursuit over in Europe three weeks ago, they‘ve gone to Lake Placid (without Pfund who‘s probably going to Kontiolahti) and taken 1-2-3-4 in the Short Individual there.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I think it’s a general problem the Swedish men spend too much time in the gym. The women’s gym program is very successfu and their coach previously worked as a performance coach within Ice Hockey. But they have less muscles to begin with and focusing on strength training means they can use higher gears in skiing (Jonna Sundling is probably the best example of that). For the men I think the strength training are causing more muscles to oxygenate without giving any obvious benefit.

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... That said, maybe Italy should send Chiocchetti over to train with the Swedish men. The guy is over 2m tall, but one of the skinniest skiers and needs to work on his double poling power and technique (his diagonal stride is actually better).

 

[kingjr]

Maybe the German Men‘s Biathlon team just needs to switch the World Cup and IBU Cup coaching staff and all that. After locking out the podium in the last IBU Cup pursuit over in Europe three weeks ago, they‘ve gone to Lake Placid (without Pfund who‘s probably going to Kontiolahti) and taken 1-2-3-4 in the Short Individual there.

Very mid performances though

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Very mid performances though

I mean, yeah, it‘s the IBU Cup, and it wasn‘t the best ski performance by the likes of Kaiser, but at least they can somewhat shoot.

 

[OJRvE]

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... That said, maybe Italy should send Chiocchetti over to train with the Swedish men. The guy is over 2m tall, but one of the skinniest skiers and needs to work on his double poling power and technique (his diagonal stride is actually better).

I am not sure if Anger lost weigth, he still look very big too me. He admitted the preparations was messed up and will never preamp with the team again. Most of Swedish team had the precamp in Seefeld but of the ones with big sucess only Svahn was there. Karlsson in Lavaze, Sundling & Dahlqvist in Seiser Alm and Andersson i Sweden. Now I heard Anger got an ear infection and is probably out for the remainder of the season