Werloc 3,125 Posted January 13, 2018 #511 Share Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) Lithuania did not get lapped in both of the relays, I'm pretty happy that our women today showed some fight. Paulauskaitė on the fourth leg surprised me a bit. Edit: It's also nice when both of them did not need to do any penalty loops, our shooting is becoming slightly better. Edited January 13, 2018 by Werloc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werloc 3,125 Posted January 13, 2018 #512 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Anyways, my few takeaways from this race would be: Tiril Eckhoff having the race of her season, the camera was even focused on her smiling when she took over Kuzmina in the final lap. Franziska Preuss with her reliable shooting might have just secured a spot for herself in the women's relay ahead of Hinz/Hammerschmidt Sweden is seriously a danger, because getting on the podium twice in a row erases any speculations of a fluke. Poland really pulled it together for the first time this season as a team and could be deemed dangerous if they find some extra ski speed. Uliana Kaisheva might get in favour of the team and her good relay result really helps. Both Irene Cadurisch and Aita Gasparin exploded for Switzerland in very similar situations, so they'll have a lot of things to think about. Chloe Chevalier made a name for herself with a very good relay performance. Absolute disaster for the favourites Ukraine. Pisareva completely destroys any chance that Belarus have in the relay for the second time in a row. With Gabrielė Leščinskaitė picking up her ski speed and a pretty solid performance for Paulauskaitė in the relay, I'm honestly very interested what the Lithuanian team is going to do at Antholz and which of the girls will have the final chance to challenge Rasimovičiūtė and Kočergina for the quota in the Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted January 13, 2018 #513 Share Posted January 13, 2018 6 minutes ago, Werloc said: Uliana Kaisheva might get in favour of the team and her good relay result really helps. She'll have to win 15 consecutive World Cup races to really be favored it seems, coming from the wrong region... If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werloc 3,125 Posted January 13, 2018 #514 Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, heywoodu said: She'll have to win 15 consecutive World Cup races to really be favored it seems, coming from the wrong region... Yes, it's absolutely ridiculous that she had to post 5 wins in the IBU cup to get a single chance at the end of the Olympic qualification... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herki 64 Posted January 13, 2018 #515 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Out ladies finally made it to the finish line It has been 1037 days (March 2015) since our women's relay team last crossed the finish line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werloc 3,125 Posted January 14, 2018 #516 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Seriously Eurosport commentator stealing my joke of Bjoerndalen switching to Belgium heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted January 14, 2018 #517 Share Posted January 14, 2018 22 minutes ago, Werloc said: Seriously Eurosport commentator stealing my joke of Bjoerndalen switching to Belgium Now we know he's one of the lurkers on this forum. Werloc 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted January 14, 2018 #518 Share Posted January 14, 2018 France If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werloc 3,125 Posted January 14, 2018 #519 Share Posted January 14, 2018 So much for 5 Germans in the top 11 Really hoped that it would finally be Schempp's day, but he has his favourite Antholz to look forward to now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemia 1,257 Posted January 14, 2018 #520 Share Posted January 14, 2018 2 3 4 (and 11) And another podium for Guigonnat! Too bad Fourcade had 2 misses, one less and he would have won. But he's still not out of the podium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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