Biathlon IBU World Cup 2022 - 2023

[Monzanator 4,503]

29 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

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 ...

 

I'm pretty sure today's sprint was scheduled so late so it didn't clash with the World Cup cross-country races in Falun. Norwegian TV probably wanted to avoid the overlap. There was no cross country yesterday so men's sprint was not affected.

[hckošice 14,834]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

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

 

 

we only have two registered active adults. thus the number of quotas is sitting and fair, we are at our right place.

[JonPhi 250]

 Patrick Favre and Vincent Vittoz will no longer be coaches of the French men's team next season. They would probably have continued, but the athletes in particular had wanted changes.

[hckošice 14,834]

Apparently the worst situation was in the middle-placed shooting ranges and the complains from teams who were zeroing there including were one of the main reason why the race was postponed for tomorrow. Our girls claimed they did not see the target at all 

 

Edited March 17, 2023 by hckošice

[Monzanator 4,503]

Women's pursuit cancelled like expected. New bibs for the sprint and suddenly everyone goes in Group 1 again Grotian with #71.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

8 hours ago, heywoodu said:

This is some of the very best news ever in cross-country skiing, something that should be adopted on a large scale!

 

Next thing is to somehow limit the number of skis per athlete for a competition. It is bullshit for top athletes to have the option of 40-50 pairs (!) of skis per race, that immediately neutralizes any chance anyone from any less rich nation has to ever be competitive.

 

Great step with the wax though! In Planica the race organizer already limited some of the resources they could bring. Like, Norway wanted to bring three equipment trucks for stuff like waxing, which is way way over the top of course, so they were only allowed to park one  

 

Edit: a bit further reading, and athletes can register 2 pairs of skis for the race the day before! I guess they can still bring a gazillion and then choose 2, but still, that's a good step!

Also: it should be up to the athletes to test & choose their own skis.  No more having squads of roadies doing it for you.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

3 hours ago, Monzanator said:

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

Run it as a double header, like baseball.  

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Also: it should be up to the athletes to test & choose their own skis.  No more having squads of roadies doing it for you.

Exactly. It's really not that difficult, there's the official training the day before the race to do that. Plenty of time.

[heywoodu 15,145]

2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Women's pursuit cancelled like expected. New bibs for the sprint and suddenly everyone goes in Group 1 again Grotian with #71.

Too bad, but cancelling the unfair pursuit is still a way better decision than moving that one to Sunday and cancelling the mass start  

 

Surprised they went for the good decision.

[phelps 7,677]

still, the race is scheduled once again late in the afternoon.

 

you already know the forecast is not good at all and then you persevere to put events in the worst possible clocking with no chance of "playing with time"?