Biathlon 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 16,468]

Young Taynara in her biathlon debut season. Well, oops. Still beat Croatia though (thanks to an 8 minute penalty for presumably missing 4 penalty laps, but that happens to the best I guess), @dcro 1-0.

 

[Werloc 3,191]

Well, would you look at that. There's a 16 yo Andorran on the start list tomorrow

[heywoodu 16,468]

10 hours ago, Werloc said:

Well, would you look at that. There's a 16 yo Andorran on the start list tomorrow

Teenage Andorrans, Brazilians (and even better, a girl, since there's a severe lack of them in the Brazilian XC/biathlon world) and Chileans making their debut this season, excellent stuff. 

[Dragon 2,084]

Russian biathlete Anton Shipulin is retiring tomorrow.

[Olympian1010 8,321]

30 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Comerade biathlete Anton Shipulin is retiring tomorrow.

Fixed it 

[Dragon 2,084]

https://www.sport-express.ru/biathlon/reviews/biatlon-anton-shipulin-pochemu-zavershil-kareru-1494588/

For those who understand Russian.

And for the rest of us there's always Google Translate...

[phelps 8,766]

how to turn one of the most beautiful days in the Italian Biathlon history in one of the saddest...

our young and promising athlete Hannes Breitenberger died earlier today at the age of just 18...

the circumstances of his death are still unclear (they first talked of a snowboard incident, but this has been denied)...

R.I.P. Hannes

[Wumo 3,035]

The President of the Russian Biathlon Association Vladimir Drachev will address what he perceives as harassment of Alexander Loginov to the IBU.

The Russians are annoyed that there are constantly derogatory comments about Alexander Loginov who returned last season 

- We will talk about the harassment of Loginov with IBU, says Drachev to Russian Sport-Express.

 

Not even Team Sky is such a big cry baby.

[Wumo 3,035]

 

 

[Wumo 3,035]

It's great to see heywoodu is not the only Dutch person who follows biathlon passionately.

Do you know this guy, @heywoodu?

 

https://twitter.com/vincetaskin_

 

 

Edited January 18, 2019 by wumo26