Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[python]

old muscle mama not even on the podium...cant say i am going to protest. even though i was rooting for kalla, i do feel happy for parma. as to haga's gold - not a huge surprise.

among other observations: it seems diggins is steeling the johaug's title for a fury cadence queen. whatever it takes to get up the hill... and she did it well enough to take the 5th. not bad.

 

[meat puppet]

python: björgen was on the podium. the bronze was shared between her and pärmä, who were exactly tied.

 

[Singer01]

Anybody not think Dahlmeier/Fourcade win the individual races?

 

[python]

Thanks, meat..i looked at the fis lntermidiate list, saw what i WANTED TO SEE and turned my set off

 

[meat puppet]

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Thanks, meat..i looked at the fis lntermidiate list, saw what i WANTED TO SEE and turned my set off

yup, it happens. at least pärmä wasn't beaten by one hundreth of a second

biathlon: think dahlmeier is very confident and thereby super hard to beat. but I'll hazard a guess that Fourcade does not win. JTB or pfeiffer to beat him.

 

[Singer01]

Well I wasn't expecting that.

 

[python]

..i can see pichler jamming both of his thumbs in his chest.

 

[jsem94]

That's crazy from Öberg. Dasha was barely faster than her. I'd actually feel a bit sorry for Kuzmina if she didn't win a single gold medal the way she's being racing this season, but you don't deserve victories, you earn them. Still pretty gutted Magdalena Forsberg didn't win a single olympic gold.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Wow, Fourcade misses his last 2 shots and throws away gold!

As a fan of JT Boe I don’t mind one bit :lol:

 

[meat puppet]

Fantastic race by Öberg, what can you say?! Must admit that I was really surprised to see her pull this off in olympics, which is great.

Seems JTB wins this. Fourcade just wow, no celebrations there. Though I understand that Jesper Nelin may threaten the podium, even win (!), if he hits all targets.

E: Well, Nelin didnt.

 

[Ferminal]

Fourcade, I don't even... Lesser men that may hang around and haunt them for some time.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Am I being too harsh calling Fourcade’s Olympics a failure, whatever happens in the mass start?

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Am I being too harsh calling Fourcade’s Olympics a failure, whatever happens in the mass start?

He’s still got a great chance in the mass start and the French aren’t without hope in the relays. Not impossible he still picks up 3 golds.

 

[ToreBear]

Wow!

 

[jsem94]

JTB finally gets his gold. Didn't expect Martin to miss two in the last shooting, but it happens sometimes.

 

[python]

i finally figured what FFS mean...fourcade is out for FaK's sake

 

[ToreBear]

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Am I being too harsh calling Fourcade’s Olympics a failure, whatever happens in the mass start?

Yes you are.

 

[Singer01]

JTB SKI times seem back on track. Bodes well for mass start and both relays.

 

[Gigs_98]

Dominik I love you. Completely out of shape but still somehow ends up with a medal.

 

[May0maniac]

Dominik I love you. Completely out of shape but still somehow ends up with a medal.

Landi is just awesome, I super happy about his medal.

 

[meat puppet]

Men's 15k is on.

Manificat & Cologna fastest at 1,5ks. But more than ten top dogs within 6sec or so.

 

[python]

^meat, you almost got it...too bad manificat tired out towards the end.

great consistent pacing from cologna and kruger, but spitsov was probably the fastest at the last 3 km. i was following the splits along with watching and was sure that sundby will bronze but the young russian beat him.

no complaining on my part and i do like this podium a lot better than all red.

 

[meat puppet]

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^meat, you almost got it...too bad manificat tired out towards the end.

great consistent pacing from cologna and kruger, but spitsov was probably the fastest at the last 3 km. i was following the splits along with watching and was sure that sundby will bronze but the young russian beat him.

no complaining on my part and i do like this podium a lot better than all red.

Yeah, well, I had cologna win this more than two weeks ago, so that went right. I hoped manificat to hold on, but expected him to fade a bit but still podium.

But more importantly, it was nice to have a tight race again, at least for the podium. Also MJS's fourth was a nice touch, eh.

Along with Spitsov I think heikkinen was also really fast on the last kilometers but he just cant get the motor running early on.

Women's relay might become interesting. I think Norway must drop Sweden at some point. Otherwise Nilsson will win it for the swedes.

Think swedes will run with: Haag - Kalla - Andersson - Nilsson. So I guess the question is against whom Haga will be played in order to make the kill.

E:

Norwegians apparently run with: Östberg - Jacobsen (!) - Haga - Björgen. No Weng and Haga vs Andersson.

Finns had a tense formation process of the relay team, but Saarinen, Niskanen, Roponen & Krista Pärmäkoski will run. I presume podiuming will be hard, but maybe possible.

 

[jsem94]

Thank God for Cologna.

 

[bambino]

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^meat, you almost got it...too bad manificat tired out towards the end.

great consistent pacing from cologna and kruger, but spitsov was probably the fastest at the last 3 km. i was following the splits along with watching and was sure that sundby will bronze but the young russian beat him.

no complaining on my part and i do like this podium a lot better than all red.

Hellner was actually the fastest in last 5km if I followed it correctly. At least he was the fastest in last 1.5km closely followed by Heikkinen and Spitsov.

Hellner and Heikkinen seems indeed to have an issue to get the pace up from the beginning, Heikkinen even more so.