Biathlon 2019 - 2020 Discussion Thread

[Werloc 3,164]

Ooooooooor, we could do the original gender relays with 4 women or 4 men, but every single team gets a Norwegian man with the best skis to start at any (1-5th) leg that they see fit and you would draw your Norwegian from the pool just like you draw a bib number in the sprint. 

[Olympian1010 7,977]

Just now, Monzanator said:

 

Laser rifles are like hamburgers from grass IMO

 

Hell, maybe we just switch to e-sports and have Fourcade & co. play a biathlon game online

IBU seems to want an e-sports division...

 

Laser Rifles wouldn’t kill biathlon by the way, and we don’t know because we haven’t opened ourselves up to trying.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, Werloc said:

Ooooooooor, we could do the original gender relays with 4 women or 4 men, but every single team gets a Norwegian man with the best skis to start at any (1-5th) leg that they see fit and you would draw your Norwegian from the pool just like you draw a bib number in the sprint. 

And France and Norway get a Lithuanian to compensate?

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Just now, heywoodu said:

 

So basically double chances for men. Yeah...no.

Yes, that would be a problem, so we’d have to figure out a workaround.

[Monzanator 4,503]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

That would actually encourage smaller nations, so I have literally zero problem with that. Again, we’re still assuming a conclusion from something we haven’t tried.

 

My crystal ball has seen the future!

 

Then again, top nations wouldn't like to see smaller nations suddenly becoming players so they would oppose that IMO. It's happening in ski jumping already. We used to have 13-14 teams in the 00s, now they can barely enter 9 four-man teams for a Team Event. And Kazakhstan is just way off the pace all the time.

 

Russia, South Korea, Italy, USA and Switzerland don't bother to enter teams anymore.

Edited February 17, 2020 by Monzanator

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

And France and Norway get a Lithuanian to compensate?

Is there even enough to give each team one?

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Yes, that would be a problem, so we’d have to figure out a workaround.

Exactly. I found the workaround already: don't do it.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Is there even enough to give each team one?

 

France = 1

Norway = 1

1 + 1 = 2, hence France + Norway = 2

 

Yep.

[Werloc 3,164]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

And France and Norway get a Lithuanian to compensate?

 

Of course not. There wouldn't be enough Lithuanians for our relay then.

 

Unless of course they could use our retired Lithuanian male biathletes and that would be the formerly doped Zlatkauskas and some of the very unsuccessful junior career quitters such as Šarūnas Jukna or Kipras Daugirdas.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, Werloc said:

 

Of course not. There wouldn't be enough Lithuanians for our relay then.

 

Unless of course they could use our retired Lithuanian male biathletes and that would be the formerly doped Zlatkauskas and some of the very unsuccessful junior career quitters such as Šarūnas Jukna or Kipras Daugirdas.

Zlatkauskas would fit right in a team with Loginov then