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Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022


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  On 2/13/2022 at 3:08 PM, 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 :d

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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 :p 

 

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).

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  On 2/14/2022 at 6:25 AM, Einarsen said:
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:NOR Relay will be Knotten, Eckhoff, Lien and Roeiseland 

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

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  On 2/14/2022 at 11:06 AM, 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.

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

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  On 2/14/2022 at 6:06 AM, 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 :p 

 

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).

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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. 

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  On 2/14/2022 at 1:06 PM, 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. 

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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...

 

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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 ... :wacko::facepalm:

 

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