Biathlon IBU World Cup 2021 - 2022

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Great stat on British Eurosport: Vittozzi has missed 3 or more 13 times this season.  Got more issues than Paris Match.

[Werloc 3,164]

So I know that you can't take anything for granted in the wiki retirement thread, because they always make mistakes (for example: Kočergina has not announced anything about retiring, but she's on the list)...

 

but seriously, did Japan completely take away the funding from biathlon, because their entire team seems to be retiring?? 

[Werloc 3,164]

Sometimes I have this crazy urge to waste my time, hopefully someone finds this interesting, the list on retirements of biathletes from the past 9 competitive seasons (3 post-Olympic ones) that Wikipedia wrote about: mistakes are inevitable, only highlighted some biathletes from said country.

 

[rybak 3,217]

17 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Sometimes I have this crazy urge to waste my time, hopefully someone finds this interesting, the list on retirements of biathletes from the past 9 competitive seasons (3 post-Olympic ones) that Wikipedia wrote about: mistakes are inevitable, only highlighted some biathletes from said country.

 

Gwizdoń didn't officialy retired yet. She said something like that she want broke another records in next season, but I don't know if she was serious or not. Did you forgot about Krystyna Guzik who officialy retired last year.

[Werloc 3,164]

For funsies I thought since a lot of retirements just go over our heads, I'll see how many Junior World Medalists since 2012 are still active:

 

2012

Chardine Sloof - NED/SWE

Monika Hojnisz-Starega - POL

Elena Badanina - RUS

Kurtis Wenzel - CAN

Marius Hol - NOR

Alexandr Loginov - RUS

Elena Ankudinova - RUS

Anais Chevalier-Bouchet - FRA

Margarita Vasileva - RUS

Maksim Tsvetkov - RUS

Florent Claude - FRA

Simon Desthieux - FRA

Olga Iakushova - RUS

Iryna Leshchanka - BLR

Vetle Christiansen - NOR

 

2013 (lots of repeat winners and winners from 2012)

Laura Dahlmeier - GER

Olga Podchufarova - RUS

Lisa Theresa Hauser - AUT

Johannes Thingnes Boe - NOR

Franziska Preuss - GER

Dino Butkovic - CRO

Clement Dumont - FRA

 

2014

Evgeniia Burtasova - RUS

Galina Vishnevskaya - KAZ

Annika Knoll - GER

Alexander Povarnytsin - RUS

Tore Leren - NOR

Eduard Latypov - RUS

Luise Kummer - GER

Sarah Beaudry - CAN

Jarle Gjoerven - NOR

Uliana Nigmatullina - RUS

Aristide Begue - FRA

Dany Chavoutier - FRA

 

2015

Yuliia Zhurakov - UKR

Kinga Zbylut - POL

Aleksandr Dediukhin - RUS

Vemund Gurigard - NOR

Lena Arnaud - FRA

Chloe Chevalier - FRA

Fabien Claude - FRA

Sean Doherty - USA

Marie Heinrich - GER

 

2016

Susanna Kurzthaler - AUT

Anastasiya Merkushina - UKR

Julia Schwaiger - AUT

Felix Leitner - AUT

Andrea Baretto - ITA

Hanna Oeberg - SWE

Lena Haecki - SUI

Anna Magnusson - SWE

David Zobel - GER

Nikita Pornshev - RUS

 

2017

Sindre Pettersen - NOR

Nikita Lobastov - RUS

Megan Bankes - CAN

Anna Weidel - GER

Igor Malinovskii - RUS

Kirill Streltsov - RUS

Roman Yeremin - KAZ

Michela Carrara - ITA

Ingrid Tandrevold - NOR

Myrtille Begue - FRA

Anton Smolski - BLR

Valeriia Vasnetcova - RUS

 

2018-2021 (nearly all of them still active)

Franziska Pfnuer - GER

Max Barchewitz - GER

Anastasiia Khaliullina - RUS

Synne Owren - NOR

 

 

[Werloc 3,164]

33 minutes ago, rybak said:

Gwizdoń didn't officialy retired yet. She said something like that she want broke another records in next season, but I don't know if she was serious or not. Did you forgot about Krystyna Guzik who officialy retired last year.

I didn't forget Krystyna, but as I've said, I followed only the info that was on the wiki, so I couldn't recall which year was her last. 

[rybak 3,217]

2 minutes ago, Werloc said:

I didn't forget Krystyna, but as I've said, I followed only the info that was on the wiki, so I couldn't recall which year was her last. 

She didn't competed after Pyeongchang Olympics anymore, but she officialy announced her retirement last year.

[heywoodu 15,141]

6 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Great stat on British Eurosport: Vittozzi has missed 3 or more 13 times this season.  Got more issues than Paris Match.

Yeah, that has been one of the main things this season. I truly wonder where that's coming from, obviously Vittozzi is not a bad biathlete by any stretch of the imagination, but this season it's utterly terrible in terms of specifically her first prone shooting bout...

 

One would almost imagine there's some serious personal issue in the background that's going on, it's nonsense to think it's just a matter of "she's not mentally strong" for example. I hope she can get rid of this...

[Werloc 3,164]

10 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, that has been one of the main things this season. I truly wonder where that's coming from, obviously Vittozzi is not a bad biathlete by any stretch of the imagination, but this season it's utterly terrible in terms of specifically her first prone shooting bout...

 

One would almost imagine there's some serious personal issue in the background that's going on, it's nonsense to think it's just a matter of "she's not mentally strong" for example. I hope she can get rid of this...

She's probably mentally devastated, because her best friend in the team is thinking about retiring.

[heywoodu 15,141]

4 minutes ago, Werloc said:

She's probably mentally devastated, because her best friend in the team is thinking about retiring.

Wierer?

 

Spoiler

/sarcasm