Biathlon IBU World Cup 2023 - 2024

[heywoodu 16,458]

On 11/26/2023 at 12:33 PM, Gianlu33 said:

Lisa won by 0.1 

Such a bag of mixed feelings there  

 

I'm super happy with 2nd for Preuss, after all the injury trouble and all kinds of other misery in the past years, from her friend Julia Pieper killing herself with a biathlon rifle (leading to the horror relay at the Olympics) to losing basically a whole season because of slipping on slippery stairs.....but I'd have preferred her to be 2nd with 5 seconds behind instead of this close, now it was both awesome and super frustrating  

[heywoodu 16,458]

And Baiba is indeed there, in the relay today, a grand total of 2 months and 1 day after her son was born

[Swewi 504]

Great leg by Elvira

[heywoodu 16,458]

Wow, what a race for Baiba  

 

Motherhood  

[Swewi 504]

HannaLooked like she got snow in the diopter before she started to shoot

[RobtheAggie 340]

20 hours ago, Swewi said:

HannaLooked like she got snow in the diopter before she started to shoot

That was quite shocking to see how poor she shot.  It was an interesting race and many did not shoot well.  It was amazing how poor Czech Republic shot, but that they were still near the front of the race.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Despite the really poor shooting by Jake Brown, I am excite for the potential that the US team has.  Add Paul Schommer back in trimester two and they can be good. 

[Bohemia 1,540]

German and Norwegian biathletes are so fast today!

[Bohemia 1,540]

First victory for Lou Jeanmonnot 

 

Preuss and Knotten will both have the yellow bib in the pursuit  I'm really happy for Preuss, I hope she'll keep that form all season, it's good to have her back.

 

Also happy to see Gilonne Guigonnat finishing 8th, it's only her 3rd race in the WC (if I'm not mistaken) and already a top 10 

[Werloc 3,191]

Out here, where we have more information leaks regarding Latvia, Baiba is not much of a hero.

 

She was training and overtraining right up to her pregnancy and got back training immediately after giving birth.

 

Rumours floated around that her son was in critical condition at one point. 

 

Also, the child chilling at the shooting range numerous times, being exposed to those decibels of sound is definitely not a great environment for an adults' ears, let alone a kid. 

Edited December 1, 2023 by Werloc