Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Monzanator 4,577]

Tarjei Boe pushes Tsvetkov off the podium!

[Monzanator 4,577]

5th & 6th places. Still looking OK for a pursuit charge esp. for Ponsiluoma

[Grassmarket 3,529]

These are pretty massive gaps in the sprint, so it’s going to be a two-for-the-price of one offer for JTB.

[hckošice 15,025]

these four useless snails in slovak suits are not even able to qualify at least one of them for the pursuit...  I see their pre-olympic preparation was successful and high quality

[NearPup 3,113]

All four Canadians qualified for the pursuit, where they will not medal. Hurray.

[hckošice 15,025]

Men's 10km Sprint
Final Results

 

Johannes Thingnes BOE

24:00.4 (0+1)

 

Quentin FILLON MAILLET

+25.5 (1+0)

 

Tarjei BOE

+38.9 (0+1)

Full Final Result HERE

[OlympicsFan 860]

This time biathlon is really boring. Usually the lack of predictability makes biathlon interesting, but this time it is easy to predict the outcome:

Norway and France combine for 2 medals (including gold), so only 1 medal is open in every race. Their skiing speed is just superior. Sweden could have challenged them, but they seem to have peaked too early again.

[JonPhi 250]

Should we trust this weather data? https://olympic.weather.com.cn/en_dongao/info.html?nav=3&name=国家冬季两项中心&_id=v300003&page=saiqu
According to this, tomorrow perceived temperatures up to -20 degrees and also wind gusts up to 8m/s would be possible. That should be similar to the conditions of the mixed relay and we would have completely different races than the two sprints.

[Monzanator 4,577]

I read in some outlets that the upcoming night will see a colder weather which may or may not affect the pursuit races and it will be much colder in the second week overall.

[dcro 10,210]

Plenty of individuals just collecting medals in Beijing. JTB, QFM, MOR.