Biathlon 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[Xander 53]

Valj Semerenko will come back in Ruhpolding

Not having high hopes though.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Cool to see a Brazilian flag at the track all the time  (at the end of the lap) 

[dcro 10,210]

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Cool to see a Brazilian flag at the track all the time  (at the end of the lap) 

 

I also saw a South African flag.

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

I also saw a South African flag.

Cool! That makes Brazil look like a true biathlon nation in comparison  

[Federer91 2,797]

Great relay for us, 8th place with a loop no less.  And we had chance for 7 till the last metres. Norway finally won something, unbeliavable isn't it. The relay here is their last bastion, they've won in 7 of the last 11 years.

[hckošice 14,835]

Slovak mens relay 14th in last relay in Pokljuka started today with BIB 14 and finished 14th...they didn´t impressed but also didn´t disappointed...well, maybe 14 is actually the real place of our mens biathlon relay. In fact all guys surprisingly showed satisfying shooting but still their skiing form are very very weak...

 

the bad thing is that we dropped one place in the Nations Cup and are 15th now, in the direct battle with our main rivals we defeated Slovenia and Belarus but unfortunately lost to USA and Kazakhstan.

 

Spoiler

 

 

Starting order of our womens relay for tomorrow race:

1. Jana Gereková
2. Anastasiya Kuzmina
3. Terézia Poliaková
4. Paulína Fialková

all fingers crossed, we strongly need a good result, our situation in the Nation Cup standing is very very bad

 

[hckošice 14,835]

[hckošice 14,835]

12th place. what a pitty, we were so close to top 10, in fact during almost the whole race we were in, but one unlucky moment with the rifle of Paulína Fialková during our last prone where she lost 25 seconds between her 5th and 6th shoot, cost us probably the dreamed top 10.

In other hand it´s really quite a while we didn´t see such decent race from our team. thank this we moved again back one place in the 17th rank of the Nations Cup infront of the Japanese, but still it´s far from the calm and tranquille places we want to find ourselves during the olympic qualification.

 

also special mention to Nastya Kuzmina, once again she was just perfect.

 

Spoiler

 

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

but still it´s far from the calm and tranquille places we want to find ourselves during the olympic qualification.

Yes, the chances that Slovakia will have a relay are only 99,97%

[hckošice 14,835]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yes, the chances that Slovakia will have a relay are only 99,97%

 

nah, you never know, everything can happen...and I´ll not be calm untill this qualification will be over and hopefully succesfull for us ...and it´s still better to be in top 17 because of the number of entries for next years world cup race, first 17 countries can start each race with 4 biathletes..so also this battle is interesting and intriguing for us and me