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Biathlon IBU World Cup 2023 - 2024


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Not much expectations for team BG this season. Our best woman Milena Todorova is pregnant and will miss the season. The 20-year old Lora Hristova showed big potential, as she won 3 gold medals at the summer biathlon Junior Worlds in August, but as we know summer biathlon is very different from real biathlon. I'm hoping she can get some points here and there.

 

As for the men, the situation isn't much brighter. The days of having a competitive relay and fighting for top 8-10 place is gone. Blagoi Todev, who was a junior prospect seems to be endlessly injured and it's not certain, if will even continue with his career. The veteran Vladimir Iliev will continue to push through, though his decline was seen last season. All in all, the ambitions should sadly be not to lose anymore quotas.

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Well, Lithuanians today were quite slow, but we're in the top 20 I guess?

 

Don't know what to expect from this season, to be honest.

 

Probably going to be the Strolia show all over again.

 

If Leščinskaitė didn't retire, we would have had a women's relay, our first one after Rasimovičiūtė's retirement. But alas, there'll only be three World cup level women from us, since junior Kresik is out as well and Urumova is not going to be quick enough to get below 150 points. 

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Good final leg from Simon.  Sweden put a very strong team and it showed.  Pretty pleased with the US result of 8th place.  Only 8 misses and no penalty loops.

Greenland were the last to be lapped.  

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Looks like Germany have found their rhythm again, at least in biathlon and ski-jumping, at the start of this season. Very strong performance from their whole teams.

 

On the other side, team Norge started a bit so-so. JTB with 2 misses would have easily won last season, while Laegreid and Christiansen would have been top 10. We shall see, if the new ski rules are being a factor. The women did better, given that most of them are newer names, with the exception of Tandrevold of course. 

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31 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Looks like Germany have found their rhythm again, at least in biathlon and ski-jumping, at the start of this season. Very strong performance from their whole teams.

 

On the other side, team Norge started a bit so-so. JTB with 2 misses would have easily won last season, while Laegreid and Christiansen would have been top 10. We shall see, if the new ski rules are being a factor. The women did better, given that most of them are newer names, with the exception of Tandrevold of course. 

Good to see, but still way too early for conclusions. So far it looks as if it might have something to do with the material in both biathlon (fluor ban) and ski jumping (3D measuring). On the other hand it doesn't look very good in cross-country skiing and nordic combined.

 

To put today's biathlon results into perspective:

Concerning the men's result:

Individual World Cup wins during the last season: 1
Individual World Cup podiums during the last season: 5
Individual World Cup podiums during the last season if we exclude Benedikt Doll: 2
Last time that German athletes finished first and second: January 8th 2017
Last time that two German athletes made the podium: March 24th 2019

 

Concerning the women's result:
Individual World Cup podiums during the last season: 7
Individual World Cup podiums during the last season if we exclude Denise Herrmann: 0
Last time that two German athletes made the podium: March 13th 2020

 

Overall:
Last time German athletes finished first and second (male or female): March 13th 2020

 

 

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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