Biathlon 2022 - 2023 Discussion Thread

[RobtheAggie 340]

Full Blink Schedule

 

Wednesday August 3

12:15 p.m.: climb of the Lysebotn Opp 7.5 km FT elite and junior ladies

2:00 p.m.: climb of the Lysebotn Opp 7.5 km double push elite men and women

3:15 p.m.: climb of the Lysebotn Opp 7.5 km FT elite and junior men

 

Thursday August 4

6:15 p.m.: start of the Blink Classics 50 km CT in Ålgård

9:00 p.m.: estimated end of the Blink Classics

 

Friday August 5

Biathlon

3:55 p.m.: elite men's and women's shooting contest

5:10 p.m.: qualifications for the men's and women's super sprints

6:55 p.m.: men's and women's super sprints

Rollerski

3:30 p.m.: CT prologue for men and women

6:25 p.m.: mass-start 10 km FT ladies

7:45 p.m.: mass-start 15 km FT men

 

Saturday August 6

Biathlon

3:45 p.m.: quarter-finals of the men's and women's mass-starts

7:22 p.m.: men's and women's mass-start semi-finals

8:25 p.m.: men's and women's mass-start finals

Rollerski

3:20 p.m.: qualification of the men's and women's FT sprints

5:44 p.m.: quarter-finals and semi-finals of the men's and women's FT sprints

8:10 p.m.: men's and women's FT sprint finals

[RobtheAggie 340]

Results of the "hill" climb:

 

Women Biathletes:

9. Baiba Bendika 🇱🇻

14. Caroline Colombo 🇫🇷

16. Marketa Davidova 🇨🇿

19. Chloé Chevalier 🇫🇷

22. Maren Wangensteen 🇳🇴

24. Tereza Vobornikova 🇨🇿

27. Emma Lunder 🇨🇦

29. Julia Simon 🇫🇷

31. Lucie Charvatova 🇨🇿

32. Nadia Moser 🇨🇦

34. Lou Jeanmonnot 🇫🇷

36. Tuuli Tomingas 🇪🇪

37. Jessica Jislova 🇨🇿

40. Maren Bakken 🇳🇴

42. Paula Botet 🇫🇷

51. Frida Dokken 🇳🇴

 

Men Biathletes:

13. Martin Uldal 🇳🇴

14. Quentin Fillon-Maillet 🇫🇷

16. Emilien Jacquelin 🇫🇷

40. Martin Nevland 🇳🇴

42. Eric Perrot 🇫🇷

43. Adam Runnalls 🇨🇦

50. Martin Femsteinevik 🇳🇴

52. Rene Zakhna 🇪🇪

56. Jules Burnotte 🇨🇦

61. Christian Gow 🇨🇦

79. Jules Pessey 🇫🇷

[RobtheAggie 340]

Random news for the day that touches Biathlon.  It appears that there is a very odd bidder for the 2029 Asian Winter Games.  It is ... Saudia Arabia!  The games would include biathlon, hence why I included it here.

 

 

 

[hckošice 14,930]

Jeez, I need to find oil

[Grassmarket 3,468]

29 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Random news for the day that touches Biathlon.  It appears that there is a very odd bidder for the 2029 Asian Winter Games.  It is ... Saudia Arabia!  The games would include biathlon, hence why I included it here.

 

 

 

If you have money, you can have snow.  There actually is a quite rocky mountainous area of Saudi Arabia, There was a pro bike race earlier this year.  

[RobtheAggie 340]

4 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

If you have money, you can have snow.  There actually is a quite rocky mountainous area of Saudi Arabia, There was a pro bike race earlier this year.  

The area they are trying to develop into a ski resort area is up in the Northwest of the country.  If Lebanon can have a ski resort, so could Saudi Arabia.

 

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1996866/saudi-arabia

 

 

[heywoodu 15,178]

11 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

If you have money, you can have snow.  There actually is a quite rocky mountainous area of Saudi Arabia, There was a pro bike race earlier this year.  

Isn't the Tour of Saudi Arabia quite a well-known thing in cycling already? Or am I confusing it with all those other oil states that want to use sports so other people don't look too much at what else they do?  

 

Curious if that will also lead to a bunch of FIS cross-country races like in Lebanon eventually, where other countries sort of decide what happens in terms of results (to get good FIS points), in return for helping Lebanon with having their own athletes score some easy FIS points.

[NaBUru38 208]

The 2022 Saudi Tour was part of the UCI Asia Tour. However it drew 8 WorldTeams.

 

The Abu Dhabi Tour joined the WorldTour in 2017. In 2019 it merged with the Dubai Tour and became the UAE Tour.

[RobtheAggie 340]

US Rollerski Biathlon Championships

Sprint

 

 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

Now for the Mass Starts: