Biathlon 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 16,003]

8 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Great result for Terézia. happy for her, seems like send a athlete to the IBU cup is for our womens a real punishment and they immediately try to return back to "A" Team.

 

but here you can see how huge is the difference between World Cup and IBU Cup, with her clean shooting she is somewhere around 70th place in World Cup but in IBU Cup without serious troubles she finished only 5 seconds behind podium !

I think the difference between top-10 in the IBU Cup and a good level in the World Cup isn't so big, but the bigger differences are behind that

 

She had the 20th skiing time today:

 

 

I think there are at least 5-10 girls in there who would have a very good chance for the top-40 in a World Cup event.

Edited December 16, 2016 by heywoodu

[hckošice 15,519]

 

 

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Again a bad day for Dorothea  

[Federer91 3,020]

Best race of the season! When it looked like we were getting the first US win in womens biathlon, then 2 new faces came out of nowhere. And shockingly a french didn't win with 1 second like always. 

[heywoodu 16,003]

What a week for Russians to take 2nd place in the men's and a surprising win in the women's sprint...meh. 

Oh well, it can't be a party every time  

Edited December 16, 2016 by heywoodu

[hckošice 15,519]

Without Nastya Kuzmina not competing today because of illness, we started with only 3 biathletes. Only Jana Gereková finished on points, 29th today, her first season points, looks like her re-start in the IBU cup last week helped her. Paulína Fialková is evidently rising her ski speed form so it´s a very good news, unfortunately she was again unlucky in the standing shooting, but despite 3 loops she managed to qualify for tomorrows pursuit from last possible 60th place and tomorrow she may with better luck in shooting range advance higher in the standing and since the time gaps aren´t so big as usually are she eventually can also attacks the points position.

Ivona with very bad performance today, slow running and bad shooting resulted in her worst this seasons result so far..

 

In the Nations Cup we are still 17th, but once again since we will most likely not compete in Oberhof we will certainly drop down...hopefully Kuzmina will recover soon we need her points !!!

 

Spoiler

 

 

Great 4th place of Terézia Poliaková in IBU cup to notice, we will see how she will perfom tomorrow in the pursuit. but already she has great chances to return back to the A team.

 

[heywoodu 16,003]

41 minutes ago, hckosice said:veal hidden contents

 

 

Great 4th place of Terézia Poliaková in IBU cup to notice, we will see how she will perfom tomorrow in the pursuit. but already she has great chances to return back to the A team.

 

 

You mean the sprint tomorrow?  

[hckošice 15,519]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

You mean the sprint tomorrow?  

 

yep sorry, mistake...you know bad day for my concentration...still don´t know to digest the hockey debacle...

[Bohemia 1,447]

Happy for Anaïs Chevalier's 2nd place, her first podium  Very good day in general, all 5 of our biathletes were in the top 15 

[dcro 10,210]

I wonder what odds you get for picking Martin Fourcade as the winner these days, 1.01?