Biathlon IBU World Cup 2021 - 2022

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Stage 3 in Hochfilzen (AUT)

 

Women´s 10km Pursuit:

 

1. Marte Olsbu Roeiseland    30:04.1 (0+0+1+0)

2. Hanna Sola  +4.1 (0+0+2+1)

3. Elvira Oeberg    +23.3 (1+0+0+0)

 

Full Final Result HERE

[RobtheAggie 340]

Decent, not great weekend for the US.  If someone would have told me that Joanne Reid and Deedra Irwin made the Pursuit and not Susan Dunklee and Clair Egan, I would have said that you were crazy.

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Norwegian Team Leaders are mad that the Women's Relay was before the pursuit.  To confirm that the schedule is all about money - "

IBU reacted via Felix Bitterling, the sporting director. "We understand that the situation is not optimal but we have no choice. The TV stations do not want two relays on the same day because it would take too long to make two direct. And if biathlon is abandoned, on screens it will be a financial disaster. "

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#TeamSlovensko for Stage 4 in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand (Sprints, Pursuits and Mass Starts)

 

All 3 M & all 3 W will start in the Sprints, hopefully someone will qualify for the Pursuit (in both genders), no big expectations for the Mass Start, Paja would need to perform her best sprint/pursuit this season to qualify there via best 5 from this week.

 

the goal is clear, the most points as possible in the Sprints for the Olympics Qualification (Especially among mens is it an absolute MUST now.)

 

Spoiler

Slováci vo 4. kole SP v Annecy

 

 

 

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Le Grand Bornand is ready 

 

[heywoodu 14,911]

1 hour ago, RobtheAggie said:

Norwegian Team Leaders are mad that the Women's Relay was before the pursuit.  To confirm that the schedule is all about money - "

IBU reacted via Felix Bitterling, the sporting director. "We understand that the situation is not optimal but we have no choice. The TV stations do not want two relays on the same day because it would take too long to make two direct. And if biathlon is abandoned, on screens it will be a financial disaster. "

And Bitterling is right. Having pursuit + relay and the opposite genders the next day is an excellent solution. The other would be to make the relays significantly shorter, but that would be worse.

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Norway makes a change to the women's team.  Karoline Knotten and Emilie Kalkenberg are out and Karoline Erdal and Ragnhild Femsteinevik are in.  Erdal has 5 top 10 finishes this season on the IBU Cup already.  Femsteinevik won the Mass Start 60 at Sjusjoen.

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8 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Norway makes a change to the women's team.  Karoline Knotten and Emilie Kalkenberg are out and Karoline Erdal and Ragnhild Femsteinevik are in.  Erdal has 5 top 10 finishes this season on the IBU Cup already.  Femsteinevik won the Mass Start 60 at Sjusjoen.

Kalkenberg did an amazing job at the Relay in Östersund 

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25 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And Bitterling is right. Having pursuit + relay and the opposite genders the next day is an excellent solution. The other would be to make the relays significantly shorter, but that would be worse.

imho, the best solution would be completely abandon the relays in the world cup stages...

 

relays are only interesting at the world champs/olympics, when all the teams put all their best athletes in the squads...world cup relays are just a long list of missing/not pushing hard athletes, trying to save themselves for what really matters, the individual stuff...

 

if I had to make the schedule, I'd do something like this:

 

first 3/4 stages: Wednesdays & Thursdays 20/15km Individuals; Fridays & Saturdays 7.5/10km Sprints always alternating men and women (so to give a one day recovery between the longer races); Sundays both M+F Pursuit races

 

then, once a good number of events are completed, the Individual events could be replaced by the Mass Start races: Thursdays & Fridays the Sprint races; Saturdays both M+F Pursuit events and Sundays both M+F Mass Start competitions...

 

I'm pretty sure that almost every Tv network would be happy with this kind of scheme...

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1 minute ago, phelps said:

imho, the best solution would be completely abandon the relays in the world cup stages...

 

relays are only interesting at the world champs/olympics, when all the teams put all their best athletes in the squads...world cup relays are just a long list of missing/not pushing hard athletes, trying to save themselves for what really matters, the individual stuff...

The challenge is that Relays are head to head and thus better viewing for TV.