Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[Ros 349]

Reasonable, even slightly surprising 12th place for Bulgaria . Congratulations to France

[copravolley 656]

Seriously, for a home competition, the Italian team is embarrassingly weak on equipment and Vittozzi's gold won't change that. Losing to Poland or Bulgaria in the relay is a shame. In 90% of the races here, our skis are poorly prepared- I don't know what they're doing in Anterselva, but it seems they're completely incompetent on their own snow. With better equipment, Italy could have won one or two more medals here.

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

1 minute ago, Adriano said:

Yeah it was sth. Your team is in great shape here. Congratulation!

Ir might no best the performances ever, but the suspense between the top teams for the gold, idk, I don't remember anything like that.

[Topicmaster1010 6,614]

1 hour ago, Bohemia said:

As I feared...  it's gonna be hard to be on the podium now

Excellent work!

[Bohemia 1,542]

19 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Excellent work!

Thank you, the TISC tactic

 

First ever Olympic title for the French men's relay 

 

Couldn't watch the race because I'm at work, could only follow via the IBU app, but how did Norway not win this though? I guess the French had better skis?

[hckošice 16,641]

Men's 4x7.5km Team Relay
Final Results

 

France

Fabien Claude

Emilien Jacquelin

Quentin Fillon Maillet

Eric Perrot

1:19:55.2(1+9)

 

Norway

Martin Uldal

Johan-Olav Botn

Sturla Holm Laegreid

Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen

1:20:05.0(0+6)

 

Sweden

Viktor Brandt

Jesper Nelin

Martin Ponsiluoma

Sebastian Samuelsson

1:20:52.7(0+6)

 

Full Final Results HERE

 

[clemsonbeav 695]

57 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

5th place for 

 

That's an outstanding result given who the 4 teams in front of them were, not to mention a bad first leg

Apparently our highest finish ever in a M relay.  

[Quasit 955]

48 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

Couldn't watch the race because I'm at work, could only follow via the IBU app, but how did Norway not win this though? I guess the French had better skis?

Two deciding factors, in my opininon.

Botn had problems in the prone while Jacquelin was confident in his shooting and he was super fast too, making up for what Claude lost.

In the anchor leg, Perrot shot with more confidence and faster than Christiansen, while he also had the better skiing.  

Edited February 17 by Quasit

[NearPup 4,188]

53 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

First ever Olympic title for the French men's relay 

I know this is true but it still feels unbelievable that  had never won the men’s relay before xD

[Matteo92 366]

3 hours ago, copravolley said:

Seriously, for a home competition, the Italian team is embarrassingly weak on equipment and Vittozzi's gold won't change that. Losing to Poland or Bulgaria in the relay is a shame. In 90% of the races here, our skis are poorly prepared- I don't know what they're doing in Anterselva, but it seems they're completely incompetent on their own snow. With better equipment, Italy could have won one or two more medals here.

 

I have to agree with you on this one. In the very first lap, I saw Braunhofer lose contact with the rest of the field in a downhill and overtaken by everyone in the vicinity, and I knew what was coming.

 

At this point, we have struggled with different temperatures and different weather conditions. The only day in which we had acceptable equipment was on Sunday, and even then, Vittozzi seemed to lose time in the downhills, based on intermediate times. Today, with all teams starting together, it was clear our equipment was not just slower than France's rockets — it was the absolute worst of the pack.

 

In Tesero, the cross-country skiing technical staff got everything wrong on the first day, but they fixed things in the following days when the conditions changed. In Antholz, it looks like they have absolutely zero clues on how to make the skis at least acceptable.