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Biathlon IBU World Cup 2024 - 2025


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Lampic could have contended for the pursuit podium even with five misses but six was one too many. Grotian had a ski binding failure on the first lap :wacko:

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If Vittozzi doesn't come back in January in Oberhof, she'll probably miss all the season, which means we could be left without any podiums in the World Cup + World Championships in this season. (Even if she does come back her form and competitiveness are of course a mystery). Wierer is too inconsistent and too weak in running form to stand on the podium (except in the individual run but she'd have to shoot cleanly) and the rest of the women's team is still just a supplement to the line-up. The men's team has seen a big regression this season.

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16 hours ago, copravolley said:

If Vittozzi doesn't come back in January in Oberhof, she'll probably miss all the season, which means we could be left without any podiums in the World Cup + World Championships in this season. (Even if she does come back her form and competitiveness are of course a mystery). Wierer is too inconsistent and too weak in running form to stand on the podium (except in the individual run but she'd have to shoot cleanly) and the rest of the women's team is still just a supplement to the line-up. The men's team has seen a big regression this season.

Don't think it's that bad - you've got 5 racing today & I can see Auchenthaler getting something next year.

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Fialkova had to have the fastest skiing time? She made up 8 seconds in the last km on Richard. Probably the fresh falling snow rendered some waxing more suitable than others.

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First winter podium for Slovakia! Amazing. Nice to see us finally on the podium this winter. Feels like a good step forward for biathlon here, hopefully, a sign of better things to come. Solid result, let’s hope for more like this.

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45 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Don't think it's that bad - you've got 5 racing today & I can see Auchenthaler getting something next year.

Auchentaller runs poorly, and her last rounds are awful - generally all Italian women have a problem with fitness and this is probably the problem of poor preparation before the season. If you don't run in the top 10, you can forget about successes apart from one individual race. Wierer and Vittozzi always ran in the top 10 during their prime. I don't see such potential in Auchentaller. Generally, both in biathlon and cross-country skiing Italian teams aren`t able to train a few good runners for many years and this is probably a systemic problem - look at France, for example: how many good runners have they been able to train in biathlon in recent years...

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