Biathlon IBU World Championships 2019

[Bohemia 1,411]

Wierer!  well deserved gold medal

[Monzanator 4,503]

This is the first WC gold medal for in women's events ever!

 

 

[Monzanator 4,503]

This is the 7th gold medal for in World Champs history (all previous 6 by men) and only the third individual:

 

1990 Men's Relay

1991 Team Event

1993 Men's Relay

1993 Andreas Zingerle (individual)

1994 Team Event

1997 Wilfried Pallhuber (sprint)

 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Btw, does anything think Wierer faked the illness yesterday to boost her chances for the mass start? And she clawed all the deficit back to Vittozzi in the standings. Do we have another Vitkova vs Koukalova catfight in the making now?

[Andry84 102]

2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Btw, does anything think Wierer faked the illness yesterday to boost her chances for the mass start? And she clawed all the deficit back to Vittozzi in the standings. Do we have another Vitkova vs Koukalova catfight in the making now?

I hope not because yesterday with Wierer, Italy, in my opinion, would have won the world title and I don't think we will see Gontier shooting clean anymore... 

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Patrick and Mike on english ES mentioned conspiracy theory about that.

 

4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Btw, does anything think Wierer faked the illness yesterday to boost her chances for the mass start? And she clawed all the deficit back to Vittozzi in the standings. Do we have another Vitkova vs Koukalova catfight in the making now?

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

5 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

I hope not because yesterday with Wierer, Italy, in my opinion, would have won the world title and I don't think we will see Gontier shooting clean anymore... 

Well that's easy to say  Without Öberg's misses, Sweden would have won the world title. With Kaisa, 16 less misses and minutes faster skiing times, Finland would have won.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

With Kaisa, 16 less misses and minutes faster skiing times, Finland would have won.

 

So close! 

[phelps 7,677]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 

finally! finally! finally!

 

I'm so happy Doro proved me wrong...at least once in her lifetime!

 

by the way, she got so close to give me reason also this time...

 

but apart from that, I've always been so harsh on her because I've always felt so frustrated by her wasted chances...and more than anything by her reaction, her attitude toward those missed chances...

 

and when it wasn't expected at all, when nobody thought she could do it...bang! the race of her life!

 

p.s. I must confess that a couple of tears have made their appearance down my eyes at the end of the race...

 

p.p.s. however, today it was Vittozzi to give me some "satisfaction"...just started and she already had 3 missed shots...

in the end, she came back from second last to 8th (and just on Roeiseland's shoulders)...so, not a disaster, after all...

 

p.p.p.s. however, in the women's division, this is really the world championship of the "Imaginary Invalid"...apart from Oeberg's 15km, there's no race where the podium is not monopolized by supposed sick girls...

then they seem to be offended if someone says "I don't trust you at all"...

[Monzanator 4,503]

54 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

Patrick and Mike on english ES mentioned conspiracy theory about that.

 

 

 

I've had enough of their bias at these Champs and turned back to Polish commentary