Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[hckošice 16,605]

10th place Paja woo-hoo !  Best day of the games so far for #teamSlovensko

 

 

 

also : Ivona 3rd fastest skier of the day, but yeah with 7 misses

[Ted 143]

Oh my God! Poor Ingrid. Let's hope she's OK...

[Fly_like_a_don 1,162]

As expected results.... 

 

Had Sola missed one less in sprint she'd have been on podium , pretty quick today, hopefully in mass start 

[JonPhi 250]

For the relay, the loss of Ingrid would of course be extremely bitter, but that looked really bad. With her, Norway would be the clear gold favorite. Sweden is currently clear on silver and possibly Russia for bronze. For the German women, the skiing times are not right at all anymore, even if the results were ok today, the skiing times were weak. And the big favorites from France before the Games, I do not trust a medal, Bescond was really weak again today, they are simply not in shape.

[OlympicsFan 860]

What an exciting race ... if IOC would be remotely sensible, they would take the pursuit off the program. This event makes zero sense.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,162]

6 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

What an exciting race ... if IOC would be remotely sensible, they would take the pursuit off the program. This event makes zero sense.

IBU is working on different formats for Super Sprint I just hope it replaces this event where medals are based on performance of some other event

[Swewi 505]

2 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

IBU is working on different formats for Super Sprint I just hope it replaces this event where medals are based on performance of some other event

The individual looks to be the first event to be recovery/replaced unfortunately..

[hckošice 16,605]

Women's 10km Pursuit
Final Results

 

Marte Olsbu ROEISELAND

36:46.9 (0+0+1+0)

 

Elvira OEBERG

+1:36.5 (0+1+2+0)

 

Tiril ECKHOFF

+1:48.7 (1+1+0+1)

Full Final Result HERE

[Federer91 3,376]

People really have a cloudy judgement today, if they think Pursuit is going anywhere. It's a prime discipline in IBU's portfolio, as it brings head-to-head racing and is TV time perfection.

[FancyFenchel 122]

10 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

IBU is working on different formats for Super Sprint I just hope it replaces this event where medals are based on performance of some other event

I think the best solution is to view sprint+pursuit as a single event. Sprint as qualification race open for all. And pursuit as medal race.

 

Maybe make sprint shorter like 6km for women and 7,5km for men?

 

Ok. Today race was semi-interesting (but only if you watch only a fight for gold, fight for top10 was full of ups and downs.), but there were a lot of exciting pursuits in the past/WC.