Biathlon 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,145]

Wow, Sleptsova getting nervous 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Dmitrieva, dude 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Paulina, why?!

[heywoodu 15,145]

Of course, the only time I'm cheering for a Russian, the Russian gets beaten in the last lap....or so it seems.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Wow, that was one exciting last lap 

 

Sleptsova 

[heywoodu 15,145]

22 hours ago, heywoodu said:

"The reason is personal, I'll tell you everything after the pursuit."

https://www.sports.ru/biathlon/1055068821.html

 

My money is on pregnancy  

 

Nailed it  

 

Spoiler

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

"I will soon be my mother", thank you Google Translate

 

[hckošice 14,835]

So 4 medals for us, (0-2-2) Paulína Fialková - silver sprint, bronze pursuit, Tomáš Hasilla - Bronze sprint, mixed relay (Paulína Fialková/Ivona Fialková/Hasilla/Kazár) silver.

 

no gold this time, Otčenáš failed to become the first ever biathlete to win 3 pursuit summer world championships consecutive titles. Paulína clearly leading our team here with the fastest times but still hardly struggling with shooting,

 

at least she is really improving season by season and after the expected retirement of Kuzmina after PC 2018 she will have to take over the reins of our biathlon, hopefully she will be able to stand the pressure

 

For now before the upcomming winter there still A lot of work to do in shooting...a lot

[Xander 53]

Pidhrushna interrupted her trainings with the team in France because her asthma came back. She went to Czech hospital again and then to Ukraine. She can join our team in December/January or end her career.

 

EDIT: and Pidhrushna has just posted that everything is ok and she'll be back soon. woohoo

Edited September 4, 2017 by Xander

[heywoodu 15,145]

Three former Russian biathletes have been involved in a serious car crash. Sleptsova and Vilukhina seem to have gotten away alright, Olga Medvedtseva/Pyleva/Zamorozova (double Olympic gold, 6 times world champion) is in the hospital with some sort of 'average degree of severity brain injury'. Apparently a bolt came loose from an opposing car, flying through the windshield and hitting her in the head, resulting in the car crashing.

https://www.sports.ru/biathlon/1055728648.html