Biathlon

[JockCartier 176]

  On 2/23/2025 at 2:10 AM, JoshMartini007 said:

I think Canada is in a good enough position to take the last quota as long as we show up to the final events

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Not sure I'd go that far just yet, but certainly looks a lot better than it did two weeks ago. After Nove Mesto maybe, if we can finish ahead of Kazakhstan in the last full relay I'll be feeling very good

[JockCartier 176]

World Cup resumed today, and it was a men's sprint so there were Nations Cup implications

Wasn't a great day, but did ok

Runnals - 52nd

Connelly - 59th
Pletz - 80th

At this point the big thing is the Nations Cup, and they did fortunately out perform the Kazakh's. They now have a 158 point cushion in 20th, up from 113 before today, and five events remain. Big one goes Sunday with the relay

[Topicmaster1010 4,438]

Some good performances at the junior world championships.

 

Best results were a 4th place finish in the youth 4x6km mixed relay and 5th place in the youth men's 3x7.5km relay.

 

Luke Hulshof also had an 8th place finish in the youth men's 7.5km sprint and 9th place finish in the 12km mass start.

 

Women's junior 4x6km relay also finished 9th.

 

Bunch of other top 30 performances as well.

[JockCartier 176]

Bit of a rough day in the women's sprint

Moser - 57th

Pfeiffer - 62nd

Lunder - 75th

Paradis - 86th

[JockCartier 176]

Shoe was on the other foot today in the men's relay. Canada had a nightmare start and ended up 18th, while Kazakhstan showed well at 13th. Chopped 50 points off Canada's cushion, dropping from 158 to 108 with four events left.

Three are next week in Pokljuka. We're not out of the woods just yet

On the upside, the women fared much better with a respectable 13th in their relay

Edited March 9 by JockCartier

[JockCartier 176]

This weekends World Cup in Pokljuka is in question because of warm weather and tons of rain. They've already tweaked the schedule, and are now talking about potential cancellations.

If they do race it sounds like it's gonna be sloppy 

 

[JockCartier 176]

The races are going forward, and they got in the short individual races today.

The women had an ok day

Moser - 45th
Lunder - 51st
Pfeifer - 63rd
Paradis - 78th

For the men Runnalls had a great day and saved their bacon

Runnalls - 27th
Pletz - 74th
Connelly - 78th

Thanks to that they picked up an extra 11 points over Kazahkstan, and now are up 119 points with three races to go... two of which would go Sunday with the mixed and single mixed relays, weather dependent

[NearPup 3,148]

With only one race left to go next week, the  men are now ahead of  by 196 points thanks to strong results (along with weak results from  ) in the mixed and mixed singles relays today.

Edited Sunday at 03:38 PM by NearPup

[JockCartier 176]

You just gonna swoop in and snake the good news from me like that?! Tsk tsk

Not impossible to make up 196 points in one race... but extremely unlikely. I think the biggest spread between the two in a singles race this year was 105. As long as Canada shows up and isn't horrifically sick or something, we're pretty safe now

[JockCartier 176]

Well, it was not pretty... but I think we have men's and women's teams in the Olympics!

Final races with Nations Cups implications went today.

Men: Only two raced, Pletz (75th) and Connelly (95th), but fortunately Kazahkstan didn't have much of a day and only made up 40 points... so Canada finished 20th with a 156 point cushion

Women: Paradis had a very good day, finishing 36th! Hopefully she can keep building on that. Lunder was 58th, Moser 76th, and Peiffer 99th. The women finished 16th overall in the Nations Cup