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Annecy made a strong pitch for a permanent spot on the calendar this weekend. Fantastic atmosphere and the IBU people surely have noticed it. It's becoming Nove Mesto 2.0 :p  The only problem is that there is not enough rounds in a season for them all. And this is without Russia in the picture. 

 

To think that once upon a time biathlon was under the hat of modern pentathlon and look how things turned out. One is hitting peak popularity, while the other has been completely forgotten. IBU are probably blessing that split everyday. :d

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Norwegian Team for Oberhof:
Tiril Eckhoff, Fossum IF 
Emilie Kalkenberg, Skonseng UL 
Karoline Knotten, Vingrom IL 
Ida Lien, Simostranda IL 
Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, Froland IL 
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Fossum IF 

Filip Fjeld Andersen, Geilo IL 
Sivert Guttorm Bakken, Vingrom IL 
Johannes Thingnes Boe, Markane IL 
Tarjei Boe, Markane IL 
Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen, Geilo IL 
Sturla Holm Lægreid, Bærums Skiklubb 

 

 

French Team for Oberhof:

Anaïs BESCOND – ARMEES Morbier Bellefontaine (Massif Jurassien)
Paula BOTET  La Bressaude (Massif des Vosges)
Justine BRAISAZ-BOUCHET – DOUANES Les Saisies (Savoie)
Anaïs CHEVALIER-BOUCHET – DOUANES Les 7 Laux (Sports de Neige du Dauphiné)
Chloé CHEVALIER – Les 7 Laux (Sports de Neige du Dauphiné)
Julia SIMON – DOUANES Les Saisies (Savoie)

 

Fabien CLAUDE – ARMEES Basse Le Rupt (Massif des Vosges)
Simon DESTHIEUX – ARMEES Lompnes (Lyonnais et Pays de l’Ain)
Quentin FILLON MAILLET – DOUANES Grandvaux (Massif Jurassien)
Antonin GUIGONNAT – ARMEES Morzine-Avoriaz (Mont-Blanc)
Emilien JACQUELIN – DOUANES Villard-de-Lans (Sports de Neige du Dauphiné)
Eric PERROT – Peisey Vallandry (Savoie)

 

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I'm surprised more teams don't try to give citizenship to some of these Norwegians? I mean Lie's mother is Belgian so it wasn't a clear cut buyout but some of those lesser names will be wasted while they could have had some careers representing Belgium or Holland?

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10 hours ago, Monzanator said:

I'm surprised more teams don't try to give citizenship to some of these Norwegians? I mean Lie's mother is Belgian so it wasn't a clear cut buyout but some of those lesser names will be wasted while they could have had some careers representing Belgium or Holland?

Perhaps most of those Norwegians are too proud, or they have no plans of leaving their country?

 

In Lithuania, we only pick up those athletes that have familial ties with Lithuania, which is the case with Paulauskaitė, Žurauskaitė, Čigak and Kresik. 

 

Which means that it's highly unlikely anyone that's not from Eastern Europe is going to end up in the Lithuanian team,

 

We're going to send a weak figure skating pair to the Olympics, because we denied nationality twice to an American woman. 

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