Biathlon 2020 - 2021 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,141]

7 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Tero Seppälä has been left off the Finnish national team's training group.

Sure why not, they've got plenty of men who can finish in the top-30 in World Cups!  

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It looks like Ukraine is going to spend a decent amount of money [2.6 million] to build a new biathlon training center in Yaremche at the Ski Resort of Bukovel.

 

 

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IBU Congress info sent out.  Two interesting things that I found the invitation talks about 2024 and 2025 World Championships.  Also the minutes from the last conference are interesting to peruse.

Links are here.

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According to this article, Wierer was looking at retirement prior to Covid19.  She was too tired.  But the forced rest has changed her mind and she will return.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,089]

10 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

According to this article, Wierer was looking at retirement prior to Covid19.  She was too tired.  But the forced rest has changed her mind and she will return.

Who calls a girl 'he' and 'his' btw

[Olympian1010 7,973]

5 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Who calls a girl 'he' and 'his' btw

A translation website that can’t pick up on certain parts of the language is my guess...

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4 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

A translation website that can’t pick up on certain parts of the language is my guess...

That is my guess to.  There used to be a website that would show the funniest things that Google Translate would come up with.  It was a lot like awkwardfamilyphotos, people would submit the things that were really funny, I am not sure what happened.  I think as the technology has improved, the mistakes are not as massive as they once were.   

 

The article make me wonder some if she was really serious, or was this an effort to draw more attention to herself.  No idea.  I

[heywoodu 15,141]

11 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

That is my guess to.  There used to be a website that would show the funniest things that Google Translate would come up with.  It was a lot like awkwardfamilyphotos, people would submit the things that were really funny, I am not sure what happened.  I think as the technology has improved, the mistakes are not as massive as they once were.   

 

The article make me wonder some if she was really serious, or was this an effort to draw more attention to herself.  No idea.  I

 

That would be so surprising. /sarcasm 

 

 

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Russian officials have finally admitted that doping happened.  

[Grassmarket 3,408]

27 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Russian officials have finally admitted that doping happened.  

Sort of. “It was all a mistake, but the Norwegians were worse!”  Usual stuff.