Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[heywoodu 16,459]

14 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

Go anywhere else, any forum, and tell them you want the pursuit out of the Games. They will rebuff you, when they are not simply insulting 

The only other forum where I talk about a biathlon, a Dutch one (very active at least during the Olympics, decent outside of it), always agrees with it being utter nonsense to have a set of Olympic medals both for a qualifying event and the 'main' event  

 

It's kind of like giving Olympic medals for the short program in figure skating, and then also one for the overall, whilst still counting the short program scores. It's perfectly fine for the world championships of said sports, but not so much for the Olympics, where events should be as much as possible stand-alone events, with everyone who starts having 'equal' chances (as far as possible of course).

[heywoodu 16,459]

Just now noticed the Tandrevold situation by the way, damn

 

Hope she'll be fine..

[Einarsen 28]

Tandrevold is traveling home.. unfortunately

https://www.vg.no/sport/skiskyting/i/7d12WK/tandrevold-reiser-hjem-fra-ol-hjertet-mitt-er-knust

 

[JonPhi 250]

42 minutes ago, Einarsen said:

Tandrevold is traveling home.. unfortunately

https://www.vg.no/sport/skiskyting/i/7d12WK/tandrevold-reiser-hjem-fra-ol-hjertet-mitt-er-knust

 

Relay will be Knotten, Eckhoff, Lien and Roeiseland 

[rybak 3,431]

Tomorrow mens relay has been moved from 17:00 to 14:30 of Beijing time due to expecting too low temperatures in late evening.

[JonPhi 250]

Relay Men

https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/2122/BT/SWRL/OG__/SMRL/C51B2_v1.pdf

[JonPhi 250]

50 minutes ago, rybak said:

Tomorrow mens relay has been moved from 17:00 to 14:30 of Beijing time due to expecting too low temperatures in late evening.

Temperature at 15:00 LOC: -14, feels like -17 

[SalamAkhi 359]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

The only other forum where I talk about a biathlon, a Dutch one (very active at least during the Olympics, decent outside of it), always agrees with it being utter nonsense to have a set of Olympic medals both for a qualifying event and the 'main' event  

 

It's kind of like giving Olympic medals for the short program in figure skating, and then also one for the overall, whilst still counting the short program scores. It's perfectly fine for the world championships of said sports, but not so much for the Olympics, where events should be as much as possible stand-alone events, with everyone who starts having 'equal' chances (as far as possible of course).

I tried it on French or international "specific" forums, never seen anybody fully agree. Sometimes they admit it's pretty unfair but say "hey it's cool and historic now so we won't remove it", most of the times I get "downvoted" and considered strange or outrageous "hey other sports are the same, pursuit is EXCITING". I keep saying its status is unique and with nothing alike but they dodge the argument. 

[heywoodu 16,459]

1 hour ago, SalamAkhi said:

I tried it on French or international "specific" forums, never seen anybody fully agree. Sometimes they admit it's pretty unfair but say "hey it's cool and historic now so we won't remove it", most of the times I get "downvoted" and considered strange or outrageous "hey other sports are the same, pursuit is EXCITING". I keep saying its status is unique and with nothing alike but they dodge the argument. 

This is basically what the Dutch Eurosport commentator (a former World Cup biathlete) also often says: "Sure, there are the sprint gaps, but the races are still generally exciting and basically nobody finishes in the spot they started in!"

 

Yeah. I mean...

 

[JonPhi 250]

Weather Forecast for the Relays 

Men:

Temperature: -14 degrees

Wind: 4m/s, gust speed up to 7m/s

 

Women:

Temperature: -15 degrees

Wind: 4m/s, gust speed up to 8m/s

 

 

Pyeongchang 2018 sends its regards ...