Biathlon IBU Cup 2019 - 2020

[RobtheAggie 340]

Single-Mixed, Mixed and the Sprint and pursuit.  Looks like a good group of races.  I look forward to seeing some of the smaller teams have relays.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Congrats to Norway for winning the Single Mixed Relay.  The order was male-female, same for the mixed relay later today.  23 teams started, 15 made it to the end.  Argentina finished in 23rd place, but I am just glad that they are there.  Mongolia actually finished in 18th place.  Progress!

 

Only 18 teams slated to race in the mixed-relay, and Switzerland did not start, so 17 total teams.  

Edited January 15, 2020 by RobtheAggie

[RobtheAggie 340]

Of the 17 that started 14 finished.  I was pretty close as Russia and Germany went 1 and 2 with less than 3 seconds between them.  Norway was 3rd, then a massive gap to the others.

[Werloc 3,176]

Why did it never come up that a famous actor Ryan is also secretly a biathlete representing USA? 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

  On 1/16/2020 at 10:48 PM, Werloc said:

Why did it never come up that a famous actor Ryan is also secretly a biathlete representing USA? 

 

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He likes to keep a low profile.  I hear that instead of longs walks on a beach, he prefers 50k's in the woods.

[RobtheAggie 340]

And Goessling shoots well 0-1 and was 2:28 behind and finished in 47th.

 

Of the top 10, 4 shoot clean including Lesser who went 0-0 but finished 48.6 behind.  There is something wrong with his ski speed.  No idea what it is.  A few good notes, Gimenez from Argentina shot much better today 2-2 and did not finish last!  Also Altankhuyag of Mongolia finished 1-0.  

[Werloc 3,176]

  On 1/17/2020 at 12:21 PM, RobtheAggie said:

And Goessling shoots well 0-1 and was 2:28 behind and finished in 47th.

 

Of the top 10, 4 shoot clean including Lesser who went 0-0 but finished 48.6 behind.  There is something wrong with his ski speed.  No idea what it is.  A few good notes, Gimenez from Argentina shot much better today 2-2 and did not finish last!  Also Altankhuyag of Mongolia finished 1-0.  

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Perhaps age is a factor. He was never the speediest German to begin with and now there is a lot of young blood who are willing to prove themselves on the World Cup challenging him.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Erdal won the sprint with one miss, still almost 20 seconds faster than Slivko who shot clean.  If the German women want another "H", Hikderbrand ended up in 7th with 1 miss.  

 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

Arber stage moves to Italy.  

[heywoodu 15,354]

  On 2/3/2020 at 5:46 PM, RobtheAggie said:

Arber stage moves to Italy.  

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Meaning instead of an idiotically long travel (after two 11+ hour rides to and from Nove Mesto in the past few days) the Brazilian/Irish/Australian team only has a one and a half hour drive now, excellent