Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[dobrien]

Did Heidi Weng win a race.l? It must be the End of days.

Very happy for her!

Nepryaeva with a great result as well.

 

[KZD]

Klæbo with two more wins in Falun this weekend. 109 World Cup wins now, only 5 away from Bjørgen's record.

Tomorrow it starts the Junior and U23 cross-country skiing World Championships.

 

[BullsFan22]

I fully expect FIS to ban all US athletes from the rest of the WC tour and remove the Lake Placid WC finals from the calendar. Oh wait...

 

[Mayomaniac]

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.

 

[KZD]

This new generation of Latvian biathletes seems amazing. They beat Norway and France in the junior mixed relay today with more spare rounds used too.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Nans Madelenat has achieved something historic in the Youth Biathlon World Championships (which won‘t be held anymore after this year, just the juniors)… After missing Bronze by two tenths in the Individual, he‘s missed out today by one tenth in the Sprint. Lozbers missed out on Gold, because three misses was one too many against Markus Sklenarik who shot clean. He‘s still insanely dominant in the skiing here.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

The Biathlon Junior World Champs would make you think Poland and Latvia were the greatest Biathlon nations.Yesterday, Grzegorz Galica, who is legitimately a huge talent (could still be doing the Youth races) won with two misses, although that was partly because most of his top competition was inexplicably placed in the last start group. Today, Estere Volfa won with an insane gap, especially in the last lap. Good performance by Sydney Wüstling to win a medal at 17 years of age as well.

 

[jono]

I don't follow closely enough to know if it's an upset, but Mackie winning the U23 women's 20k skate is the kind of result we haven't seen in Canadian skiing in a while.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Korostelev didn‘t win the U23 men‘s 20k by the way because it came down to a sprint. Also, how did the Norwegians not manage to Top 10 in that race?

 

[Unchained]

Korostelev didn‘t win the U23 men‘s 20k by the way because it came down to a sprint. Also, how did the Norwegians not manage to Top 10 in that race?

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y1moFmYKu4&pp=ygUXV2ludGVyIHNwb3J0cyByaWNoIGtpZHM%3D

Some cool data points

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I can find some solace in the fact that it wouldn't have made a difference today if Elvira had missed as well, but I still really want to see Bátovská Fialková finish her career with a victory to her name.

A day to forget for Jeanmonnot, but at least the small fall at the shooting range didn't cost her a globe this time around, as she just managed to held on to the lead in the ranking for the individual thanks to, among other performances, perfect (and more importantly, safe) rifle handling from Marlene Fichtner.