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Biathlon IBU World Cup 2022 - 2023


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14 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

Elvira oeberg is out for the relay, she doesn't feel quite fit. Now Linn Persson has to step in who only had one day of training yesterday. The problem is, there is nobody else left, who could race.

Sweden of all teams having nobody else left, damn. Still should be a very solid podium candidate of course. If Öberg had said that a bit earlier, surely they could have let someone come over from Pokljuka's IBU Cup team...

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A question which maybe is stupid but do the teams needs to participate in relays if many of the athletes are sick? What about to simple skip at least one run to get the athletes time to recover? Maybe there are rules about it?

 

what I mean is Linn really ready or is she in the team only because there’s no other that can do it? 

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9 minutes ago, Belle said:

A question which maybe is stupid but do the teams needs to participate in relays if many of the athletes are sick? What about to simple skip at least one run to get the athletes time to recover? Maybe there are rules about it?

 

what I mean is Linn really ready or is she in the team only because there’s no other that can do it? 

Teams can and sometimes do withdraw from relays, you're perfectly allowed to do so. Usually those are the lower-ranked teams, such as Bendika taking some rest and so the Latvian single mixed relay having a DNS last week, or Belgium that sometimes has a full team and sometimes doesn't.

 

There's no reason why the top teams can't do the same if they wish.

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11 minutes ago, Belle said:

A question which maybe is stupid but do the teams needs to participate in relays if many of the athletes are sick? What about to simple skip at least one run to get the athletes time to recover? Maybe there are rules about it?

 

what I mean is Linn really ready or is she in the team only because there’s no other that can do it? 

No, they can withdraw but obviously it costs ranking points which determine how many racers start in the personal races & World Champs.  So you don’t want to withdraw.

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