Biathlon IBU World Cup 2019 - 2020

[Monzanator 4,611]

Boe basically lost one minute on going back to complete the loop. Still better than the 2 min penalty if he skipped it alltogether.

 

Don't look now but has a shot at some WC points. Vytautas Strolia only 1:50 behind Fourcade with 1 miss!

 

@Werloc will be satisfied

 

 

Edited January 10, 2020 by Monzanator

[Biathlonfan 710]

  On 1/10/2020 at 2:15 PM, Monzanator said:

Boe basically lost one minute on going back to complete the loop. Still better than the 2 min penalty if he skipped it alltogether.

 

Don't look now but has a shot at some WC points. Vytautas Strolia only 1:50 behind Fourcade with 1 miss!

 

@Werloc will be satisfied

 

 

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And so will I .

[Biathlonfan 710]

  On 1/10/2020 at 2:19 PM, penthatlonfan said:

And so will I .

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What s with the schoked reaction monzanator ?

[Gianlu33 4,750]

This could be better with roller skate than with ski 

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 1/10/2020 at 2:24 PM, penthatlonfan said:

What s with the schoked reaction monzanator ?

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I didn't realize we have two Lithuanian biathlon fans in this thread

 

Tomasz Sikora noticed Strolia's result and calls it the biggest shock of the race so far For obvious reasons Karol Dombrovski used to get a quick mention from time to time (and Diana Rasimovicuite when she was still racing but mainly due to her marriage to Bricis).

[Biathlonfan 710]

  On 1/10/2020 at 2:29 PM, Monzanator said:

 

I didn't realize we have two Lithuanian biathlon fans in this thread

 

Tomasz Sikora noticed Strolia's result and calls it the biggest shock of the race so far For obvious reasons Karol Dombrovski used to get a quick mention from time to time (and Diana Rasimovicuite when she was still racing but mainly due to her marriage to Bricis).

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I actually only started actively  watching this season, but I do enjoy watching it, and supporting the Lithuanians, dombrovski is also doing well, dind t know that rasimoviciute married a latvian biathlete and a succesfull one too. Biahtlon for me asociates with the fact that Lithuania almost won an olympic medal in it in 2014. it would of been the first one ever.    

[Monzanator 4,611]

Fourcade, Jacquelin & Kuehn on the podium.

 

Good day for Doherty 21st, Nordgren 26th. ( @RobtheAggie should be satisfied?).

 

Great day for Strolia 20th, Dombrovski 36th.

[Grassmarket 3,628]

Just catching up now and all my prophecies of DOOM for Oberhof  yesterday are being fulfilled.  There was a picture today of a rubber bath duck in one of the shooting range ponds. .  Just hope they have enough snow in a warehouse somewhere for the weekend. 

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 1/10/2020 at 6:24 PM, Grassmarket said:

Just catching up now and all my prophecies of DOOM for Oberhof  yesterday are being fulfilled.  There was a picture today of a rubber bath duck in one of the shooting range ponds. .  Just hope they have enough snow in a warehouse somewhere for the weekend. 

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They shipped the snow from World Team Challenge in Gelsenkirchen over to Oberhof

[Werloc 3,176]

Well, I was working today, but I of course, managed to find a way to somewhat track the men's sprint on my phone 

 

All I can say is that IT IS AWESOME!!!!!!

 

This is history made for Lithuanian biathlon. This is the first time that two Lithuanian biathletes end up with points in a single race, the first time that three Lithuanian biathletes have won points in a season and the highest ever placement for Lithuanian men in World Cup biathlon, because Kaukėnas only ever got inside top 20 in World Championships or Olympics.

 

Vytautas Strolia became a father a couple of hours before the race started, there's a whole interview about that one now that I'll head to read right now.

 

This is also the second time in Karol's career that he enters a Top 40.

 

Also, I had this joke with my friend and I said that Lithuanian men will definitely get into points, because we always do, when there's no pursuit afterwards. It's so funny right now