Biathlon 2022 - 2023 Discussion Thread

[BlueWhiteJerry 20]

IBU together with FIS has just announced the full implementation of the fluor wax ban from the 2023/24 season

IBU implements full fluor ban (biathlonworld.com)

[RobtheAggie 340]

    Bjontegaard has retired.

[Swewi 382]

Swedish Championships Sprint today:

Women:

1. Anna Magnusson

2. Hanna Öberg

3. Johanna Skottheim

 

Men:
1. Jesper Nelin

2. Martin Ponsilouma

3. Sebastian Samuelsson

[Grassmarket 3,407]

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

Swedish Championships Sprint today:

Women:

1. Anna Magnusson

2. Hanna Öberg

3. Johanna Skottheim

 

Men:
1. Jesper Nelin

2. Martin Ponsilouma

3. Sebastian Samuelsson

Norwegian Champs on streaming!  Remember, the Direkte page does not work, but the skiskyting-nm page does.  Sprints today.

 

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/skiskyting-nm/2023/MSPO40130223/avspiller

 

I notice that Russian Biathlon’s heroic refusal to meet reality continues - after the Russia Cup Series (in Russia), the Friendship Cup series (in Belarus), the International Championship races (2 countries) they are rounding off the season with the Russian Domestic Championships.  So plenty of variety there, kind of marketed to fans of Gibraltarian football.

Edited March 24, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 3,407]

On 3/24/2023 at 3:31 PM, Grassmarket said:

Norwegian Champs on streaming!  Remember, the Direkte page does not work, but the skiskyting-nm page does.  Sprints today.

 

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/skiskyting-nm/2023/MSPO40130223/avspiller

 

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Worth watching - two mass starts today & a Club Relay tomorrow.

[Swewi 382]

mass starts st Swedish nationals;

 

men:

1. Femling

2. Ponsilouma

3. Nelin

 

women:

1. Magnusson

2. H Öberg

3. Brorsson

[RobtheAggie 340]

Norwegian biathlete Eivind Sporaland has gone missing.  He has not been seen since 19 March.

[heywoodu 15,135]

2 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

Norwegian biathlete Eivind Sporaland has gone missing.  He has not been seen since 19 March.

The auto-translated website says this athlete is a 'superstar' and won a junior world championships medal, but this athlete is nowhere on the IBU database? This German article also mentions a silver at the 2021 junior worlds....but the actual results of the 2021 junior worlds show absolutely nothing with his name...

https://www.focus.de/sport/eivind-sporaland-norwegischer-geheimdienst-sucht-nach-vermisstem-biathlon-star-22_id_189379106.html

 

I'm starting to wonder, may they be mentioning the wrong sport or something? There is nobody with a name remotely close to this who got a world junior/youth medal since 2016...

Edited March 27, 2023 by heywoodu

[Grassmarket 3,407]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

The auto-translated website says this athlete is a 'superstar' and won a junior world championships medal, but this athlete is nowhere on the IBU database? This German article also mentions a silver at the 2021 junior worlds....but the actual results of the 2021 junior worlds show absolutely nothing with his name...

https://www.focus.de/sport/eivind-sporaland-norwegischer-geheimdienst-sucht-nach-vermisstem-biathlon-star-22_id_189379106.html

 

I'm starting to wonder, may they be mentioning the wrong sport or something? There is nobody with a name remotely close to this who got a world junior/youth medal since 2016...

Maybe biathle, the UIPM running & laser pistol shooting variant?  Or bike/run triathlon?

[RobtheAggie 340]

I could not find anything more about him either.  A sad story, but maybe not really related to biathlon.