website statistics
Jump to content

Biathlon IBU World Championships 2019

hckošice

By hckošice,
in Biathlon

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 809
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Federer91
Federer91

Of all the time i could have gone to the cinema, i picked the damn worst one  You should have seen my face, when i saw the results after the movie. My friends thought something really "important" had

Werloc
Werloc

Okay, just got caught up with biathlon.   WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??????????????? Natalija Kočergina with a PB of 27th place and clean 0+0 shooting, probably in the most underwhelming biath

dcro
dcro

I mean, his name is literally Windisch...

Posted Images

OlympicsFan Rising Star

OlympicsFan   858

Posted
Posted

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.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Monzanator Proficient

Monzanator   4,502

Posted
Posted (edited)
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 by Monzanator
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Bohemia Community Regular

Bohemia   1,411

Posted
Posted

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 :facepalm: 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. :fingers:

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ahjfcshfghb Collaborator

ahjfcshfghb   287

Posted
Posted (edited)
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??? :redcard:

@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 by ahjfcshfghb
Link to comment
Share on other sites
OlympicsFan Rising Star

OlympicsFan   858

Posted
Posted
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.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Bohemia Community Regular

Bohemia   1,411

Posted
Posted
Just now, Monzanator said:

Yeah, France could be even bigger losers than Italy at these champs :lol:  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)

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Latest Posts around Totallympics

    • Olympian1010
      Winter World University Games 2025

      By Olympian1010 · Posted

      50 days to go
    • copravolley
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      I remember Caroline Golubitsky. She competed with Vezzali for a while but not for long. Rita Konig, whom Vezzali defeated in the final of the Olympic Games in 2000, was more famous, as well as Sabine Bau and Anja Mueller. From what I remember, the Germans competed fiercely with us at some point, but they almost always lost.
    • Illya
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By Illya · Posted

      Shemyakina won a bronze medal in 2014 Worlds and was one of our leader but leave the squad due to pregnancy (she has 2 daughters if I'm not mistaking, so she chose family instead of sport). And speaking of foil we have back in the day Sergiy Golubitskyi, who was Olympic silver medalist and won some medals in other competitions and coached his wife Caroline Golubitskyi - one of the German foil specialists. Even in women's foil we had medal in Women's foil at the European championship - it was Olha Leleiko, our current national coach. So no, we are pretty good fencing country, and depending on generations of our athletes some events are more "profitable" for us and some don't. 
    • copravolley
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      Shemyakina that was a very strange story. She unexpectedly won the games but before and after she literally achieved nothing. After that success in 2012 she also completely disappeared. It's only in epee that such strange situations. That's why I've always preferred foil and sabre, because the top was more stable there, although that's changing now. The competition has grown a lot all over the world.
    • copravolley
      Men's Tennis ITF Davis Cup 2024

      By copravolley · Posted

      Sinner probably won't play in another edition of the Davis Cup. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Next season, Wimbledon and maybe Paris should be the goal.
    • Illya
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By Illya · Posted

      No, our epee was good always, we have Shemyakina, who was Olympic Champion in 2012, Reizlin with bronze in 2020, medalists of Worlds like Kryvytska (who is our finisher today), Svichkar (who is our finisher in men's side) and Stankevych, European champion Kharkova, medals in other conpetitions from men's team epee who were one of the main contenders in Tokyo, but unfortunately failed to take a medal. 
    • copravolley
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      Does Ukraine have good relations with Poland, or are they more cold, like, for example, Italy with France?
    • copravolley
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      Until recently, Ukrainian fencing was just Kharlan and sabre. Maybe epee sometimes. I don't remember them ever was strong in foil. There was a time when Russia, Romania and Poland were strong in foil at that time when Italy dominated but I don't remember Ukraine anymore.   Hungarian women with Aida Mahomed were too strong for many years.
    • Monzanator
      Men's Baseball MLB 2024

      By Monzanator · Posted

      No surprise with Aaron Judge winning AL MVP and Shohei Ohtani winning NL MVP awards.   Ohtani is the second player in history to win MVP in both leagues. Frank Robinson (1961 Reds & 1966 Orioles) was the only one before.
    • Illya
      Fencing FIE World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By Illya · Posted

      Ukraine twice in one day defeated Italy and France, like what the heck? 
×
×
  • Create New...