Biathlon IBU World Cup 2018 - 2019

[Kirkpatrick 144]

No races today, rescheduled for tomorrow.

[heywoodu 16,434]

45 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

No races today, rescheduled for tomorrow.

Well that sucks, tomorrow night I can't really watch  

[Werloc 3,191]

10 hours ago, Herki said:

What a race from our girls Oja and Tomingas did a really good job, especially Tuuli who I have never seen skiing so well before. Talihärm was better last year, easily the best of our girls, now she needs to catch up, but she still did her job. Gaim is sadly not even close to the rest of the team, even without the penalty loops I don't think we had finished higher than maybe 8th.

 

This was Estonia's women's relay's first top 10 since 1993! 26 years! (8 out of 9 teams with 12 minutes loss lol) This clearly is the actual best ever really.

I remember when our Gabrielė Leščinskaitė was a rival for Tomingas and they went back and forth on who is better. Yet it's Tomingas scoring points and Leščinskaitė finishing in 80-90th places in the world cup

[Kirkpatrick 144]

And cancelled tonight, very disappointing. Whole day was pretty crappy...

[Olympian1010 8,284]

I might be attending next weeks World Cup in Utah!

[heywoodu 16,434]

I'm so sick of the ton of (mostly Russian) people spurting their bullcrap on Twitter about how we should never again have these 'rotten overseas stages' because there's some cold trouble now.

Or the even worse reason I've seen: it's not convenient for European fans because of timezones  

 

Like you're even a real fan if you don't watch at 20:00 because you have to drink with your friends or whatever  

[heywoodu 16,434]

11 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I might be attending next weeks World Cup in Utah!

Do it, absolutely.

[Monzanator 5,073]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I'm so sick of the ton of (mostly Russian) people spurting their bullcrap on Twitter about how we should never again have these 'rotten overseas stages' because there's some cold trouble now.

Or the even worse reason I've seen: it's not convenient for European fans because of timezones  

 

Like you're even a real fan if you don't watch at 20:00 because you have to drink with your friends or whatever  

 

Yeah, Khanty-Mansiysk was usually the coldest venue in first place (sometimes Kontiolahti) and between them & Tyumen it's a rotten location in the middle of Siberian freeze too. Talk about pot calling kettle black...

[hckošice 16,572]

Our team is actually so pissed off  

 

According to this https://www.biatlon-info.sk/spravodajstvo/svetovy-pohar/1011-v-canmore-sa-uz-zrejme-pretekat-nebude-zrusili-aj-nedelnajsie-sprinty people are complaining that IBU send athletes few weeks before the WCH to a far far away Arctic resort with zero fans or local interest, or media attention, even the only womens individual race was broadcasted in a non-european friendly time.  Our mens and Paulína are now returning back home, Paja travelled across half of the globe to compete in one shortened individual ..it must be definitely fun to be around her now

 

Nastya will stay in North America and will compete in Soldier Hollow as our sole representative

[heywoodu 16,434]

2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Yeah, Khanty-Mansiysk was usually the coldest venue in first place (sometimes Kontiolahti) and between them & Tyumen it's a rotten location in the middle of Siberian freeze too. Talk about pot calling kettle black...

And you don't hear us (or at least me  ) complain about those. I want Khanty-Mansiysk back and while we're at it Kontiolahti shouldn't stay gone neither.