Biathlon IBU World Championships 2019

[phelps 7,677]

today's race medal summary...

 

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[OlympicsFan 858]

Impressive from Dahlmeier despite being completely out of shape, good position for the pursuit. Norway improved a lot on the womens side this season. The only positive thing is that they will never dominate on the womens side, otherwise biathlon would turn into another snoozefest like cross-country. Who knows? Maybe the fact that officials in cross-country skiing take the fight against doping more seriously than the biathlon officials will lead to more and more norwegian talents prefering biathlon over cross-country.

[Monzanator 4,503]

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Impressive from Dahlmeier despite being completely out of shape, good position for the pursuit. Norway improved a lot on the womens side this season. The only positive thing is that they will never dominate on the womens side, otherwise biathlon would turn into another snoozefest like cross-country. Who knows? Maybe the fact that officials in cross-country skiing take the fight against doping more seriously than the biathlon officials will lead to more and more norwegian talents prefering biathlon over cross-country.

 

There's no anti-Norwegian doping fight in cross country though. They legalised Symbicort as the TRUE magic potion after Norway got their asses spanked in Liberec 2009. All the beef is anti-Russian. In biathlon their issue has been about shooting, if Tandrevold doesn't randomly blow 3-4 misses like Eckhoff & Olsbu then she could dominate like peak Tora Berger. Look at the men's side, once JTB started to hit 9/10 - 19/20 and not 7/10 - 15/20 he's unstoppable. Frode Andresen & Lars Berger would have seriosly eaten into Ole Einar's dominance if only they for once sorted out their shooting.

Edited March 8, 2019 by Monzanator

[Bohemia 1,411]

Interesting race, many misses by big names (although in the end the podium isn't that surprising), and good day for Sweden, even without any medal

 

As for France, that was a DISASTER  I'm not that surprised though, considering Chevalier already seemed out of shape yesterday, Braisaz and Aymonier almost always have bad shooting, and Bescond is not there.

 

I really hope tomorrow will be a good day for French biathlon. 

[ahjfcshfghb 287]

56 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Okay, I'm starting to HATE the ES coverage. 5 skiers in and they go ad break then we listen to some USELESS expert talk... will we get to see anyone other than Top 15 names on the course/range? What is this CRAP???

@KirkpatrickWatch on Eurovision online. Same commentators but no commercial breaks  If you’re in Poland you need a VPN but still https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/

Edited March 8, 2019 by ahjfcshfghb

[Monzanator 4,503]

Yeah, France could be even bigger losers than Italy at these champs   Was it last season that Braisaz said she wants to be the BEST biathlete in the field? She's gone completely off the boil over the last 12 months.

[OlympicsFan 858]

Just now, Monzanator said:

 

There's no anti-Norwegian doping fight in cross country though. They legalised Symbicort as the TRUE magic potion after Norway got their asses spanked in Liberec 2009. All the beef is anti-Russian. In biathlon their issue has been about shooting, if Tandrevold doesn't randomly blow 3-4 misses like Eckhoff & Olsbu then she could dominate like peak Tora Berger. Look at the men's side, once JTB started to hit 9/10 - 19/20 and not 7/10 - 15/20 he's unstoppable. Frode Andresen & Lars Berger would have seriosly eaten into Ole Einar's dominance if only they for once sorted out their shooting.

1) At least Johaug and Sundby were banned, something we would never see in biathlon.

2) How is Tandrevold supposed to dominate? Its not like she is super fast in cross-country, more like a bit above average. Wierer, Vitozzi, Dahlmeier, Davidova and so on are all on the same level.

[ahjfcshfghb 287]

@Werloc is 27th enough for government funding? Lol

[Bohemia 1,411]

Just now, Monzanator said:

Yeah, France could be even bigger losers than Italy at these champs   Was it last season that Braisaz said she wants to be the BEST biathlete in the field? She's gone completely off the boil over the last 12 months.

 

Yep, she started underperforming mid-season last year, and since then she hasn't improved (except that she shoots faster now XD)

[SalamAkhi 317]

What the hell is happening to our girls