Biathlon IBU World Championships 2023

[OlympicsFan 860]

Objectively Germany has the 4th or 5th best relay (Behind Norway, France, Sweden and maybe Italy), so a medal would be a surprise, but not a shock. Anything worse than 5th would be a bad result.

 

Herrmann seems to be in a good shape. I think not nominating Grotian was a huge error (Assuming that she would have been willing to compete), she might very well have overperformed in front of the home crowd.

Edited February 8, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[hckošice 15,503]

relay after Paja passing the baton

 

[heywoodu 15,997]

Not bad at all from Remenova. One can't fairly expect her to hold a top-5 position in this field.

Edited February 8, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,997]

Great showing by Herrmann, 20+ seconds faster than anyone else around her.

[hckošice 15,503]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not bad at all from Remenova. One can't fairly expect her to hold a top-5 position in this field.

Yep, the goal is clearly avoid being lapped. Paja did the job very well, now it would be a real shame to throw it out of the window like that... plus, jeez let Kazár go that last leg, he asked for time off from his work from his boss to come help start the mixed team, so let him at least enjoy and race.

Edited February 8, 2023 by hckošice

[Monzanator 4,768]

Bionaz held it together on the first shoot. Norway up to 3rd already.

 

Doll on the penalty loop.

[heywoodu 15,997]

5 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Yep, the goal is clearly avoid being lapped. Paja did the job very well, now it would be a real shame to throw it out of the window like that... plus, jeez let Kazár go that last leg, he asked for time off from his work from his boss to come help start the mixed team, so let him at least enjoy and race.

What's up with Kazar then? He has been racing this season, even more than last season, so it's not like he was totally retired  

[Monzanator 4,768]

doing trash as expected.

 

Nędza-Kubiniec living up to his name (nędza means poverty ) and we are even behind Romania who were on the penalty loop

[heywoodu 15,997]

2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

doing trash as expected.

 

Nędza-Kubiniec living up to his name (nędza means poverty ) and we are even behind Romania who were on the penalty loop

Huh, I thought Nedza-Kubiniec was a woman  Does he have a sister (or wife)? I'm 99% sure there was a woman with that name competing in the Universiade, which I remember because the English commentator was constantly calling her Kubinieca or Kruberenic or Kruberenica, or anything else than Kubiniec  

[heywoodu 15,997]

Samuelsson turning penalty loops today.