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Biathlon 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread


Xander

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  • 3 weeks later...

Holy smokes :yikes:

 

Olha Abramova:

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Women's team for Pokljuka:

 

Vita Semerenko

Valya Semerenko

Yulia Dzhyma

Olena Pidhrushna

Anastasia Merkushyna

 

The 6th one will be selected later. Unfortunately Belarusians didn't cancel Blashko's quarantine.

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What do you think about the announced changes? I think some are pretty awful, but I liked the personal quota idea.

http://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/new-season-new-rules

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47 minutes ago, Werloc said:

What do you think about the announced changes? I think some are pretty awful, but I liked the personal quota idea.

http://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/new-season-new-rules

 

I like the shortened penalization for the individuals

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Mass Start 60: Awful, why on earth does biathlon need such a complicated and even unfair format? (since the first shooting bouts will be at different points in the race for half the field, that's just unfair)

 

Flexible mixed formats: I don't care

 

Junior Cup: Nothing wrong with a Nation's Cup there, although like in the IBU Cup it probably doesn't mean that much

 

Electronic targets: They may make it more fair

 

Extra quota: I'm not entirely sure how this works. They take the IBU qualifying list, remove every single athlete from every country with at least one WC quota, and the top-8 left gets a WC quota regardless of their results? I wonder if that opens the door for Australia or even Brazil to have a WC starter (which in the women's case would be Jill Colebourn and lovely Bruna Moura respectively). Personal start quota for the IBU Cup total winner seems excellent.

 

 

 

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Laura Dahlmeier is ill and has to take a longer break in Training. She most likely won't compete at the very least in the first few World Cups.

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33 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Laura Dahlmeier is ill and has to take a longer break in Training. She most likely won't compete at the very least in the first few World Cups.

Dahlmeier is ill, snow is cold, etc :(

 

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Just to be sure, you guys will not be confused this season, when this name will appear near the :FIN flag. 

 

Mari Eder http://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/mari-eder-austria-finland-biathlon-cross-country-marriage-and-motivation

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