Biathlon 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[Xander 53]

^ Everything is unofficial so far. It's between  Holmenkollen and Kontiolahti.

Raubichi are in but they have no chances.

Our male team wanted Almaty (after Universiade), our female team roots for Holmenkollen.

 

 

ps. FIS suspended 6 Russian skiers (including Legkov & Vylegzhanin). All of them took part in Sochi Olympics (4 medals). I guess all these cases in other winter sports will influence biathlon too.

Edited December 23, 2016 by Xander

[Xander 53]

Iryna Starykh is listed in the start list of the Russian competitions tomorrow.

Alexandr Loginov won the individual race.

 

Meanwhile Glazyrina won't start which heated rumours about her doping ban.

[hckošice 14,829]

Some news from SVK team, After long discussions between our coaches and national federation, it was decided that we must compete at each World cup stage in order to maintain the 10 olympic quotas. so we will start also in Oberhof, but not in full composition.

 

only 3 mens and 2 womens will compete in Oberhof.

 

Men

Tomáš Hasilla

Martin Otčenáš

Michal Kubaliak

 

Women

Jana Gereková

Terézia Poliaková

* Anastasiya Kuzmina was given a "free choice" so she and her miniteam will announce her final decision if or not competing in Obehof in the next days.

 

 

The good news is that we will also compete in PyeongChang World cup stage with a full team 4 + 4

 

here the provisional plan of our participation in 2nd and 3rd trimester (ženy = womens, muži = mens)

 

Spoiler

Spoiler

2. a 3. trimester provisional starting plan:

 

03.01. - 09.01. WC OBERHOF (2 Womens + 3 mens)

09.01. - 16.01. WC RUHPOLDING (5 Womens + 4 mens)

12.01. - 14.01. IBU Cup ARBER  - TBC

16.01. - 23.01. WC ANTERSELVA (4 Womens + 4 mens)

23.01. - 29.01. ECh DUSZNIKI-ZDRÓJ (4 Womens + 6 mens)

26.01. - 29.01. Juniors Ibu Cup POKLJUKA ??? (probably not)

01.02. - 05.02. Junior ECh NOVÉ MESTO NA MORAVE (3 girls + 3 boys)

03.02. - 04.02. IBU Cup OSRBLIE -  TBC

06.02. - 20.02. WCH HOCHFILZEN (5 W + 5 M)

20.02. - 29.02. Junior and youth WCh OSTROV  -  TBC

28.02. - 06.03. WC PNGCHANG (4 W + 4 M)

01.03. - 06.03. IBU Cup KONTIOLAHTI  -  TBD

06.03. - 13.03. WC TYUMEN (3 W + 3 M)

06.03. - 12.03. IBU Cup OTEPÄÄ  -   TBC

15.03. - 19.03. WC HOLMENKOLLEN (3 W + 3 M)

 

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

56 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Some news from SVK team, After long discussions between our coaches and national federation, it was decided that we must compete at each World cup stage in order to maintain the 10 olympic quotas. so we will start also in Oberhof, but not in full composition.

 

only 3 mens and 2 womens will compete in Oberhof.

 

Men

Tomáš Hasilla

Martin Otčenáš

Michal Kubaliak

 

Women

Jana Gereková

Terézia Poliaková

* Anastasiya Kuzmina was given a "free choice" so she and her miniteam will announce her final decision if or not competing in Obehof in the next days.

 

 

The good news is that we will also compete in PyeongChang World cup stage with a full team 4 + 4

 

here the provisional plan of our participation in 2nd and 3rd trimester (ženy = womens, muži = mens)

 

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2. a 3. trimester provisional starting plan:

 

03.01. - 09.01. WC OBERHOF (2 Womens + 3 mens)

09.01. - 16.01. WC RUHPOLDING (5 Womens + 4 mens)

12.01. - 14.01. IBU Cup ARBER  - TBC

16.01. - 23.01. WC ANTERSELVA (4 Womens + 4 mens)

23.01. - 29.01. ECh DUSZNIKI-ZDRÓJ (4 Womens + 6 mens)

26.01. - 29.01. Juniors Ibu Cup POKLJUKA ??? (probably not)

01.02. - 05.02. Junior ECh NOVÉ MESTO NA MORAVE (3 girls + 3 boys)

03.02. - 04.02. IBU Cup OSRBLIE -  TBC

06.02. - 20.02. WCH HOCHFILZEN (5 W + 5 M)

20.02. - 29.02. Junior and youth WCh OSTROV  -  TBC

28.02. - 06.03. WC PNGCHANG (4 W + 4 M)

01.03. - 06.03. IBU Cup KONTIOLAHTI  -  TBD

06.03. - 13.03. WC TYUMEN (3 W + 3 M)

06.03. - 12.03. IBU Cup OTEPÄÄ  -   TBC

15.03. - 19.03. WC HOLMENKOLLEN (3 W + 3 M)

 

 

Nobody at the IBU Cup in Martell and Slovak participation in Arber isn't sure yet? Come on, I gotta cheer for more than just the Brazilians  

[hckošice 14,829]

33 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Nobody at the IBU Cup in Martell and Slovak participation in Arber isn't sure yet? Come on, I gotta cheer for more than just the Brazilians  

 

Yes. We will not send anyone to the first IBU Cup January stages in Martell, because it´s the highest situated biathlon venue and our athletes aren´t apparently prepared for that, source our biathlon national team coaches and they will prefer to use this time for training camp and preparation for the upcomming European Championships which are the top goal of our so called "B" team. meanwhile we will compete the next stage in Arber but we will send only 2 mens Ondrej Kosztolányi and the junior Simon Bartko, and only 1 women Alžbeta Majdišová.

[dcro 10,210]

I see that this thread changed its name. Too popular.

Edited December 24, 2016 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,141]

22 minutes ago, dcro said:

I see that this thread changed its name. Too popular.

Ha, I noticed something was different, but couldn't quite put my finger on it  

[Xander 53]

Anastasiya Kinnunen (Dubarezava) left the Belarusian team after Pokljuka - she's pregnant

 

Domracheva will come back in Oberhof as planned.

Edited December 26, 2016 by Xander

[Federer91 2,795]

Ahahahaah, tough guy Fourcade wants to boycott the whole World Cup, but only after he drags other top names with him. If you are going to talk big, better be ready to do it chappie..

[rybak 3,217]