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Biathlon IBU Junior Cup 2023 - 2024


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5 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

I am not sure that all 35 will start, but the fact that there 35 potential teams is great news.

Youth Olympic year. NFs need that exposure/funding :cool:

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15 hours ago, Biathlonfan said:

That's crazy

To be fair, quite a large number won't make it to the third or even second athlete :p  For example the Brazilian girls are there, but since the guys start first, I am not sure they're even actually going to the venue today (like when Brazil started in the mixed relay in an IBU Cup some years ago, it was woman-woman-man-man, and the second of the two men wasn't even in the same country :p)

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8 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Youth Olympic year. NFs need that exposure/funding :cool:

For some countries that's the same in non-YOG years. Brazil for example quite literally only starts for the IBU money and equipment (both in the Junior Cup and nowadays also in the IBU Cup), although of course officially it's for stuff like "improving talents" and whatnot. They don't ever train shooting outside of the few days during the season, they have broken rifles and they just use the free equipment for everything and nothing, but with YOG....nah, not much to do with that, and somehow I doubt it's different for the likes of Chile (who's girls needed WAY more than double the time of the sprint winners so far) or Macedonia :p 

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