Biathlon Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[phelps 7,797]

it looks like  will have soon another biathlon member in their ranks

 

 born Gaia Brunello is going to switch to her mom's native Land...good luck to her!

 

p.s. just don't give a f*ck to the clickbaiting comparison to Braathen in the title of the article 

 

https://www.oasport.it/2025/01/anche-litalia-ha-la-sua-braathen-gaia-brunello-sceglie-il-brasile-nel-biathlon/

[Faramir 373]

She has competed for Brazil some 20 days ago...OAsport writers must have taken long holidays and needed more time than usual for their "copy, paste and add a clickbait title/intro" article 

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 1/7/2025 at 10:19 AM, Faramir said:

She has competed for Brazil some 20 days ago...OAsport writers must have taken long holidays and needed more time than usual for their "copy, paste and add a clickbait title/intro" article 

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And even last season it was already known that this was going to happen, but mostly within Brazilian circles I think  

Edited January 7 by heywoodu

[copravolley 317]

https://www.gazzetta.it/Sport-Invernali/08-01-2025/biathlon-vittozzi-chiude-la-stagione-inutile-forzare-punto-ai-giochi.shtml

 

The case of Vittozzi's injury is very strange and I`m increasingly afraid of her form during the games. The press communication of the Italian federation was terrible all the time - the seriousness of Lisa's injury was constantly hidden and the problem was trivialized. Well, for us the biathlon season is basically over, in terms of hopes for the podium of the World Championships, World Cup etc. All that is left for us is to fight for 5th place in the Nations Cup and maintain 6 places in the World Cup for the next season.

[Grassmarket 3,605]

Hmm cancelled post

Edited January 11 by Grassmarket

[hckošice 15,090]

Artur Ischakov just won bronze for his new country in the European Juniors Championship Individual. Well done.

 

Gold for Poland btw. Does not happen often neither

 

[Bearas 538]

 women's team (ranked 20th) surpassed every  biathlete (ranked 21st) in yesterday's individual race and increased their lead agains KAZ by 100 points to 605 point lead overall. It's looking more likely that Lithuania for the first time will get to have 4 female biathletes at the Olympic Games! Only 8 starts left

[Bearas 538]

 pushes out  from 20th position in men's ranking after successful start today 

[Federer91 2,885]

IBU have announced the calendars up until 2029/30 season here.

 

Some interesting changes. 

 

- In 27 and 29 the opening round will be reduced to one weekend (instead of two) with the extra weekend being held around New Years.

 

This is a very nice change in my opinion, as i always appreciate more races around the holidays. Plus we can have an extra location, instead of one resort holding 2 weeks at the beginning. The only thing, which could have made it even better is if they squeezed this round between Christmas and New Year, but i'm sure the athletes would have made a fuss.

 

- Another change is Oberhof moving to the third trimester after being the opening January round for probably 30 years. This seems like a reasonable move, as we all know the troubles with Oberhof every season. 

 

- Of the other locations it's the usual in and out for Annecy, Lahti with Lenzerheide, Otepaa joining their mix of semi-regular slots.

 

- The tradition of returning to North America once every 5-6 years  is kept for 2029. But Asia is still non-existent for biathlon. And to think, when i started watching in 2002/03 for a couple of years China had a top tier women's team, with Japan having a nice presence as well. Seems eternity ago.

 

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[phelps 7,797]

Oberhof (and sometimes Nove Mesto) in March...good luck for the grass biathlon cup! 

 

and Holmenkollen in February...I know they want to keep the world champs in that stint, but, man! I wonder how many troubles they will have in 2029 (unless climate change does really modify our Winter more than how it happens nowadays)