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One of the major figures in the history of biathlon in the United States passed away on Thursday.  Bill Spencer, athlete, coach, official and all around good guy died.  He was involved in the 1960 Olympics (first Olympic biathlon) all the way to the 2002 Winter Olympics in SLC.  

 

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2020/12/04/utah-biathlon-standout/

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9 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

One of the major figures in the history of biathlon in the United States passed away on Thursday.  Bill Spencer, athlete, coach, official and all around good guy died.  He was involved in the 1960 Olympics (first Olympic biathlon) all the way to the 2002 Winter Olympics in SLC.  

 

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2020/12/04/utah-biathlon-standout/

Great old-time photo there.

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Anfisa Reztsova, the former Soviet biathlete who won 2 medals in the 1988 Olympics, and is the mother of Darja Virolainen, stated that she "she agreed to have an abortion in exchange for a two-room apartment in Moscow region which was given to her by the national sports bosses" prior to the 1988 Olympic Games."

 

Granted this is only her side of the story, but wow!

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Some of the teams for the Christmas Biathlon race at Ruhpolding

 

Belarus - Dzinara Alimbekava and Anton Smolski

Russia - Evgeniya Pavlova and Matvey Eliseev

Germany - May include Denise Herrmann and Benedikt Doll.

Ukraine - Ukrainian team - Vita Semerenko and Dmytro Pidruchnyi

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13 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Some of the teams for the Christmas Biathlon race at Ruhpolding

 

Belarus - Dzinara Alimbekava and Anton Smolski

Russia - Evgeniya Pavlova and Matvey Eliseev

Germany - May include Denise Herrmann and Benedikt Doll.

Ukraine - Ukrainian team - Vita Semerenko and Dmytro Pidruchnyi

Oh this us on!  :champion:

 

Top news, thought it had been cancelled, but in fact it’s just moved to Ruhpolding from Gelsenkirchen.  :cheer:

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4 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

Anfisa Reztsova, the former Soviet biathlete who won 2 medals in the 1988 Olympics, and is the mother of Darja Virolainen, stated that she "she agreed to have an abortion in exchange for a two-room apartment in Moscow region which was given to her by the national sports bosses" prior to the 1988 Olympic Games."

 

Granted this is only her side of the story, but wow!

That would be incredibly unsurprising from the Soviets :facepalm:

 

By the way, Virolainen...wow, now that's a name who was doing quite well in the World Cup for a bit not even that long ago and has completely and totally disappeared into oblivion, hadn't heard that name for ages :yikes: 

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17 hours ago, JonPhi said:

So the list from the DSB is this:

Denise Hermann/Benedikt Doll (GER)
- Franziska Preuss/Simon Schempp (GER)
- Dorothea Wierer/Lukas Hofer (ITA)
- Marekta Davidova/Michal Krcmar (CZE)
- Lisa Theresa Hauser/Julian Eberhard (AUT)
- Evgeniya Pavlova/Matvey Eliseev (RUS)
- Vita Semerenko/Dmytro Pidrushnyi (UKR)
- Elisabeth Hoegberg/Torstein Stenerson (SWE)

 

Add Belarus to the list

  • Dzinara Alimbekava - Anton Smolsky - Belarus

 

There will also be one more team.  I say make is a combo US/CAN team.  No one is heading back to the NA this Christmas.  What I might think that we will see is either a French or Norwegian team, or maybe a combo Baltic Team.  I am thinking about ratings which this is about.

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