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Biathlon 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread


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17 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Team :LTU Lithuania is losing Rokas Suslavičius and Natalija Paulauskaitė. There are still questions on whether we'll see Diana Rasimovičiūtė, but the rest of the team seems like they're planning to remain :)

 

Would be surprised if Rasimoviciute continues again. Didn't she initially retire like ages ago?

#banbestmen

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2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Would be surprised if Rasimoviciute continues again. Didn't she initially retire like ages ago?

She retired many times, but has not yet skipped a single season from the start of her Biathlon career. Take that information in as you will :d

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Just now, Dunadan said:

:mumble:I don't think this is correct.

I would be extremely happy if that is not correct, but she, for some reason, is mentioned between the retirees in the Wikipedia page, although there's no citation yet.

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4 minutes ago, Werloc said:

I would be extremely happy if that is not correct, but she, for some reason, is mentioned between the retirees in the Wikipedia page, although there's no citation yet.

I saw the same kind of discussion on Realbiathlon forum, just like about Mario Dolder. There seems to be quite some confusion :p 

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5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I saw the same kind of discussion on Realbiathlon forum, just like about Mario Dolder. There seems to be quite some confusion :p 

I'm hoping for the best then, in both cases.

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Dolder and Oberhof are not going to retire, according to the Italian Wintersports site "Fondo Italia"...

 

they have a list of retired athletes in all the Snow Sports updated to 4 days ago...

 

MEN'S CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING (9)
COLOGNA Gianluca [SUI] (1990)
DOLIDOVICH Sergei [BLR] (1973)
HOFFMANN Noah [USA] (1989)
JÖNSSON Emil [SWE] (1985)
KETELÄ Toni [FIN] (1988)
LEGKOV Alexander [RUS] (1983)
NOUSIAINEN Ville [FIN] (1983)
PERL Curdin [SUI] (1984)
STRANDVALL Matias [FIN] (1985)

 

WOMEN'S CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING (10)
BJØRGEN Marit [NOR] (1980)
HAAG Anna [SWE] (1985)
HAGEN Martine Ek [NOR] (1991)
KOCHER Zina [CAN] (1982)
KOWALCZYK Justyna [POL] (1983)
JEAN Aurore [FRA] (1985)
MALVALEHTO Mona-Liisa [FIN] (1983)
RANDALL Kikkan [USA] (1982)
SAARINEN Aino-Kaisa [FIN] (1979)
STEPHEN Liz [USA] (1987)

 

MEN'S BIATHLON (9)
BAILEY Lowell [USA] (1981)
BEATRIX Jean-Guillaume [FRA] (1988)
BJØRNDALEN Ole Einar [NOR] (1974)
BURKE Tim [USA] (1982)
CURRIER Russell [USA] (1987)
GRAF Florian [GER] (1988)
SOUKUP Jaroslav [CZE] (1982)
SVENDSEN Emil Hegle [NOR] (1985)
WILLEITNER Michael [GER] (1990)

 

WOMEN'S BIATHLON (5+1)
DORIN HABERT Marie [FRA] (1986)
FENNE Hilde [NOR] (1993)
KOUKALOVA Gabriela [CZE] (1989) {NOT an official retirement, but a long and undisclosed terms pause}
NOWAKOWSKA Weronika [POL] (1986)
RANSOM Julia [CAN] (1993)
TOFALVI Eva [ROU] (1978)

 

MEN'S SKI JUMPING (5)
AUNE Joakim [NOR] (1993)
BIRCHLER Tobias [SUI] (1997)
DELLASEGA Roberto [ITA] (1990)
HILDE Tom [NOR] (1987)
MIETUS Krzysztof [POL] (1991)

 

WOMEN'S SKI JUMPING (3+1)
INSAM Evelyn [ITA] (1994) {Just pausing, NOT an official retirement yet}
MATTEL Coline [FRA] (1995)
POZUN Katja [SLO] (1993)
RINGQUIST Abby [USA] (1989)

 

NORDIC COMBINED (7)
FLETCHER Bryan [USA] (1986)
KATO Taihei [JPN] (1984)
KIRCHEISEN Björn [GER] (1983)
KOKSLIEN Mikko [NOR] (1985)
LAMY-CHAPPUIS Jason [FRA] (1986)
LOOMIS Adam [USA] (1992)
MANNINEN Hannu [FIN] (1978)

 

 

Other news

 

Thee should be 12 people related to the Biathlon "family" under investigation after the Austrian Police raid at last year's Worlds in Hochfilzen.

2 of them should be investigated for corruption, the remaining 10 could be responsible for sports fraud.

And it should be 2 different investigation pathways...the doping scandal is definitely related to last year's Worlds, meanwhile the corruption files should be about facts started already in 2012 (it should be about money in exchange for covering up positive doping tests).

That's what's reported by Norwegian press (VG) after something said by a spokeswoman of the Austrian police.

 

here's the full article (in Italian)...

http://www.fondoitalia.it/2018/04/16/notizie/argomenti/biathlon/articolo/ibu-gate-ci-sarebbero-12-persone-sotto-inchiesta.html

 

 

p.s. a bit off-topic in this thread, but since we're here...;)

Tor Arne Hetland has been fired from his role as the Cross-Country Skiing men's head coach in Norway...

the new coach should be Eirik Myhr Nossum, former coach of Petter Northug...

and many people have already started to speculate on the bad boy's return in the Norwegian squad...

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  • 2 weeks later...

A Russian coach has been fired. He'd help 17-year old Anna Moiseeva and all she needed to do is have sex with him! 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/russian-biathlon-coach-fired-over-sexual-misconduct-claim/2018/04/26/280b9c92-4965-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html?utm_term=.e792a452c304

 

:sick:

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