Biathlon IBU World Cup 2022 - 2023

[heywoodu 15,141]

48 minutes ago, BlueWhiteJerry said:

Why must athletes' careers be so short  It sometimes feel like they've just come into their prime...and boom, they're retiring. 

 

I don't wanna manifest anything, but if I had to guess as to the retirements on the men's side, seems Fak or Eder are most likely. Serafin Wiestner  is also confirmed retiring.

I'm still fairly confident about Eder continueing. He said he'll stay in the team as long as he isn't pushed out by younger guys who surpassed him, and so far he is definitely still one of the 4-5 best Austrians and so in the team on merit. The moment other guys pass him and he's the 5th or 6th Austrian is the moment he retires, I think.

[FireRun 192]

2 hours ago, BlueWhiteJerry said:

Why must athletes' careers be so short  It sometimes feel like they've just come into their prime...and boom, they're retiring. 

 

I don't wanna manifest anything, but if I had to guess as to the retirements on the men's side, seems Fak or Eder are most likely. Serafin Wiestner  is also confirmed retiring.

I doubt Fak will retire as long as he our number 1. He's also the most marketable biathlete here, which makes it financially beneficial for him to continue on.  

[Federer91 2,796]

3 hours ago, BlueWhiteJerry said:

Why must athletes' careers be so short  It sometimes feel like they've just come into their prime...and boom, they're retiring. 

 

I don't wanna manifest anything, but if I had to guess as to the retirements on the men's side, seems Fak or Eder are most likely. Serafin Wiestner  is also confirmed retiring.

This seems like a specific problem to biathlon more so. We are seeing so many sports, where people are playing way over 35, up to 40 almost and you can't get rid of them.  It was usually like team sport, where you can hide behind your teammates, but in the last decade it is visible in tennis, cycling, alpine skiing, other less popular Olympic sports. But biathlon is one, where top starts very easily call it quits at a youn age, or after 2-3 good seasons.

[FireRun 192]

3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

This seems like a specific problem to biathlon more so. We are seeing so many sports, where people are playing way over 35, up to 40 almost and you can't get rid of them.  It was usually like team sport, where you can hide behind your teammates, but in the last decade it is visible in tennis, cycling, alpine skiing, other less popular Olympic sports. But biathlon is one, where top starts very easily call it quits at a youn age, or after 2-3 good seasons.

And then you have Bjorndalen and Gwizdon who continued well into their 40s.

[Monzanator 4,502]

Women's sprint in Holmenkollen starts in 10 mins. Not many big names choosing Group 1 this time, Wierer #19 and Simon #28 are the only ones in the first 30 bibs.

 

Vittozzi #54, Hanna Oeberg #67, Elvira Oeberg #78, Persson #81 and Herrmann #90 among others. Selina Grotian with #92 on the watch list

[Bohemia 1,411]

Looks like there could be no sprint today, visibility is getting worse...

[Monzanator 4,502]

Start postponed by 30 mins due to fog

 

Here are the men's 2023/24 quota. Due to Russia and Belarus ban some teams obviously profited with extra quotas. On the flip side is Slovakia who had didn't even make Top 20 for the first time in XXI century @hckošice

 

 

[Bohemia 1,411]

Yep, the women's sprint is postponed to tomorrow

[Monzanator 4,502]

Women's sprint is postponed for Saturday. Probably no pursuit then.

[OlympicsFan 858]

Another proof that most sport officials are completely braindead. They could have scheduled this race for earlier this day or they could have scheduled both sprints for yesterday, but instead they created a schedule that only would have worked if no race/only men's sprint had to be delayed. I guess just canceling women's pursuit/mass start doesn't matter, because it only hurts the athletes. The same has happened in ski jumping many times before. They schedule a competition as late as possible and then they are shocked when they have to cancel it because they can't postpone it. At the 2018 olympics one of the ski jumping competitions finished after midnight ...