Biathlon IBU World Cup 2018 - 2019

[hckošice 16,573]

Top 15 saved, with some problems, but still

[heywoodu 16,434]

TV director missing the main action in the finish  

[hckošice 16,573]

who was the worst shooting team of the race ?

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

who was the worst shooting team of the race ?

 

It was a tie between Denmark, Netherlands and Croatia.

[De_Gambassi 1,368]

Way not enough wind and snow, they shoud've cancel that race. 

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Nor Fourcade nor younger Boe in today's relay.

[dcro 10,210]

Apparently Lahaye-Goffart is hunting for a family.

 

Edited December 16, 2018 by dcro

[hckošice 16,573]

Recap

 

From the beginning it was clear we will see a race of two different halftimes, after the first SVK was leading the race with 20 seconds advantage, after the second one it was 14th place with more than 4 minutes behind the winning Italy.

 

Our coaches tried the same compsition of the successful 5th PyeongChang Olympic relay (Paja/Nastya/Poliaková/Ivona)

 

Paja started the relay and presented us again one sublime performance, a real "need for speed" race overpassing a tons of opponents during her leg because of our bad starting position with BIB 20.  Second fastest time of her leg and good shooting pointed our relay to 3rd place only 3 seconds behind the leader.

 

Nastya had another of her great days today, she competed at her pace and with very good shooting (only that ONCE AGAIN last target) had no oppponent in her leg today able to put her under any pressure. Our relay was leading the race with more than 20 second advantage after her leg.

 

Poliaková...well, Poliaková. Total disaster on skis, and even bigger disaster on the range, supposed to be her only strong weapon today. Peoples maybe ask why our staff does not call someone else to replace her, well, the problem is that the gap within our A team and Poliaková is obvious, too big,  but the gap behind Poliaková and any other eventual girls is even bigger. we just have not anyone able to replace her, the results of our juniors in the youth categories for example are far to be encouraging... Terezia started as leader of the race but threw away her 20 seconds lead already in the first lap, and when we include her tragic shooting today, our relay dropped out of the top 10.

 

Ivona tried to return our team to top 10 but as the whole season so far, she is fightin whith the same issue, 2 different hafs in her races, good start and terrible standing shooting, same happened today, 3/8 in the last shooting does not need any further comment. in the last lap she stayed completely alone and crossed the line in tears at 14th place more than 4 minutes behind.

 

Now the worrying thing is that this was one of the last relays in this composition, after this season Nastya will retire...and this will be a hard return to the dark times..

 

before that maybe only 1 relay will be to see for this team and it´s gonna be the last race at the world champs, since Ivona will not travel to Canmore world cup stage.

 

Spoiler

 

[dcro 10,210]

Belgium is not leading. A sure sign that the relay will not be exciting.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Ukraine no misses and still dead last, even after teams with penalty loops.

 

EDIT: My bad, Korea is behind them.

Edited December 16, 2018 by Kirkpatrick