Biathlon IBU World Championships 2025

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/16/2025 at 6:19 PM, Ted said:

Could you write a bit more about her struggles and misfortunes over the years? I' m not so familiar with her story.

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Lots of injuries, including often just pure bad-luck stuff like a fall from a set of stairs, illness, and of course the Sochi tragedy in 2014: one of her biathlon friends, young Julia Pieper, killed herself with a biathlon rifle early during the Olympics (she wasn't on the team, but was a training partner of both Preuss and Dahlmeier). Obviously a hard hit, which led to terrible Olympics for Preuss, with a DNF, awful results in her other individual races and a relay where she was the first runner for Germany, but fell early on, got snow in her rifle and broke a pole and ended up losing almost 3 minutes, which in turn resulted in Germany being off the podium for the first time ever.

 

After that came all the injuries and illness and everything. So glad to finally see her have her big individual global gold, that is so well deserved.

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/16/2025 at 7:40 PM, NearPup said:

The fact that the New Zealand Olympic committee was waffling on sending him to Beijing is such a joke too. Lots of people there should be extremely ashamed of themselves.

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Yep. Not sure if it was the NOC or the biathlon federation (I assume the latter) that put him in the Livigno training 'world' with a former Italian biathlete as coach, but they can definitely also be blamed:  almost everyone involved in that shitshow got the motivation just sucked out of them by the methods and shitty atmosphere until they either retired or changed country  

[Bailer 17]

  On 2/16/2025 at 8:19 PM, heywoodu said:

Lots of injuries, including often just pure bad-luck stuff like a fall from a set of stairs, illness, and of course the Sochi tragedy in 2014: one of her biathlon friends, young Julia Pieper, killed herself with a biathlon rifle early during the Olympics (she wasn't on the team, but was a training partner of both Preuss and Dahlmeier). Obviously a hard hit, which led to terrible Olympics for Preuss, with a DNF, awful results in her other individual races and a relay where she was the first runner for Germany, but fell early on, got snow in her rifle and broke a pole and ended up losing almost 3 minutes, which in turn resulted in Germany being off the podium for the first time ever.

 

After that came all the injuries and illness and everything. So glad to finally see her have her big individual global gold, that is so well deserved.

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No words, that is very tragic. I haven't heard about her before and there's almost nothing about the case online, do you know more?

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/16/2025 at 9:16 PM, Bailer said:

No words, that is very tragic. I haven't heard about her before and there's almost nothing about the case online, do you know more?

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Which case? Because the whole Julia Pieper thing was very public around Sochi 2014, and as a world class biathlete, Preuss' injuries and illness were all the time mentioned in biathlon commentary and news and stuff  

[Bailer 17]

  On 2/17/2025 at 6:58 AM, heywoodu said:

Which case? Because the whole Julia Pieper thing was very public around Sochi 2014, and as a world class biathlete, Preuss' injuries and illness were all the time mentioned in biathlon commentary and news and stuff  

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The Julia thing. I can't find much about it in our media.

[Grassmarket 3,605]

 Johanna Puff first person home with 20/20!  

 

Häcki-Groß with 18/20 but faster skis.  Same Aita Gasparin.

 

 Klemenčič takes the lead 19/20

 

 Dzhima now leads 20/20!

 

Whole lot of big names approaching at 15/15....

 

Edited February 18 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 3,605]

 Halvarsson &  Simon in a ski race!

 

Preuß messes up at 17/17 so looks like Simon's race.....

 

Jeanmonnot looking good for bronze.

Edited February 18 by Grassmarket

[copravolley 317]

Another good performance by the Italian team. It's a shame about Carrara's last 3 misses. Unfortunately, due to injuries and illnesses of our 2 best girls: Vittozzi and Wierer, we can't count on more at these World Championships. I hope that this season's bad luck will run out and everything will be fine next season.

[hckošice 15,089]

Women's 15km Individual
Final Results

 

Julia SIMON

41:27.7 (0+0+0+1)

 

Ella HALVARSSON

42:05.5 (0+0+0+0)

 

Lou JEANMONNOT

42:06.9 (1+0+0+0)

Full Final Result HERE

[Grassmarket 3,605]

Shooting is very.poor today, only 2/30 are at 10/10 after two shoots.

Edited February 19 by Grassmarket