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Biathlon 2020 - 2021 Discussion Thread


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47 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

That is a lot of people in a very small space.  It is expected to be all alpine resorts or will the regular chairlifts be open.  We could see a substantial surge of people involved in Nordic Skiing.

in the end, we basically closed down everything in the ski stations...no amateur sport activity is allowed from today until at least Nov. 24th...

 

we're in a sort of new lockdown for what concerns all the non necessary activities (and even some of them have been heavily affected by this situation...restaurants, for instance, must close at 6 p.m. -basically they can open only for the working people's lunch)...

 

I think our government is going crazy because of all the new covid cases, but they don't want to take the truly effective and needed countermeasures (shut down schools and office jobs, forcing them to online operations only if and when possible, and soften the pressure on public transports), so they end up with some useless rules (which will prove senseless)...

 

I hope an effective vaccine comes out soon, because I don't know how long we can still stand this situation...it's both a psychological torture and an economical disaster for most common people...:nopompom:

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Ustyugov's appeal was denied and is stripped of his 2010 and 2014 medals. Ustyuov won mass start gold and relay bronze at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. He also won gold in the men’s 4x7.5 kilometers relay event at Sochi 2014.

 

The British Biathlon Team hired two new coaches.

Iris Pessey is the new Junior Coach, Martin Watkins is the new BBU Development Coach.

 

 

 

 

 

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53 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Ustyugov's appeal was denied and is stripped of his 2010 and 2014 medals. Ustyuov won mass start gold and relay bronze at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. He also won gold in the men’s 4x7.5 kilometers relay event at Sochi 2014.

 

The British Biathlon Team hired two new coaches.

Iris Pessey is the new Junior Coach, Martin Watkins is the new BBU Development Coach.

 

 

 

 

 

So that goes to Martin Fourcade now or what? I had hoped it'd be an interesting winner, not the one who already won a gazillion of these things :p 

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

So that goes to Martin Fourcade now or what? I had hoped it'd be an interesting winner, not the one who already won a gazillion of these things :p 

2010 readjusted medals:

 

Men's Mass Start

1.  Martin Fourcade - France

2.  Pavol Hurajt - Slovakia

3. Christoph Sumann - Austria

 

Men's Relay

1. Norway

2. Austria

3. Sweden

 

2014 Readjusted medals

Men's Relay

1. Germany

2. Austria

3. Norway

 

Ole Einar Bjorndalen now gets another Olympic medal out of this.  

 

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35 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Still winning golds even after retirement

 

#legend

Will have to build a new extension to his house in :BLR. Or possibly run away before it is torched by an angry mob.  

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6 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Will have to build a new extension to his house in :BLR. Or possibly run away before it is torched by an angry mob.  

That's Bjoerndalen you're talking about, this was about M Fourcade.

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#Legend could easily apply to both biathletes.  It is interesting that OEB would get one more which brings his total up to 14 total (8 gold), while this does not change the total number of medals for Fourcade it does bring him up to 6 Gold.

 

Both amazing biathletes.

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A really good article in the New York Times about Ustyugov.  It is very rare for biathlon to get into such a major newspaper in the US.

 

Ukrainian former junior world champion Julia Zhuravokova has announced that she is execrating a baby.  From this article, it looks like she is still planning on racing this season.  Is seems that after a successful IBU Cup season last year, she would have been pushing for WC spots this year.

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2 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

 

Ukrainian former junior world champion Julia Zhuravokova has announced that she is execrating a baby.  From this article, it looks like she is still planning on racing this season.  Is seems that after a successful IBU Cup season last year, she would have been pushing for WC spots this year.

I don't know, it's not very nice of Zhuravokova to execrate her baby :(

 

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