Biathlon 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[Xander 53]

[Xander 53]

The Junior WCH 2015 winner (sprint) Darya Blashko can switch her team & citizenship to  Ukraine.

 

They are called Ukrainian biathletes by our main sportswear distributor.

 

The rumours about Maria Panfilova switching back to Ukraine appeared in June and now both bought Ukrainian sportswear.

Panfilova's results are tragic though. Blashko will be a nice addition to the next Olympic cycle when Semerenko sisters (and Pidhrushna?) retire.

 

EDIT: Both of them train with our "Team B" so it's confirmed.

Edited July 30, 2017 by Xander

[Xander 53]

Russian Ministry of Sports awarded Starykh & Loginov with the highest sports title in Russia of "Honoured Master of Sport"

 

We have the same title in our system btw, but it can be stripped off only in 1 case - doping abuse

 

 

Meanwhile the rumours say that Uros Velepec can come back to coaching Slovenian team after these OG end.

Edited August 2, 2017 by Xander

[hckošice 15,548]

Team Slovakia for the Summer Biathlon World Championships in Tchaikovsky (RUS) August 22. - 27. 2017

 

Matej Kazár, Tomáš Hasilla, Martin Otčenáš, and Michal Šima will compete in the men´s category --- oh dear...

 

The amazing sisters Paulína Fialková and Ivona Fialková will represent our nation in the women´s events.

 

Among the Juniors Šimon Bartko, Matej Baloga, Veronika Machyniaková and Júlia Machyniaková

 

and btw Huge News:

WE WILL CHANGE SUITS FOR THE NEW SEASON !!! YES, No more Orange

here are the proposals, the final decision will be revealed soon

 

[Xander 53]

17 часов назад, hckosice сказал:

YES, No more Orange

Thank god  as long as it doesn't merge with a bunch of similar tricolor suits. Thankfully there's a cross on the left shoulder.

[Xander 53]

Another junior WCH winner  Arina Pantova switches her team to Russia. 

[heywoodu 16,017]

I like orange suits, but only for the Netherlands  (or maybe Ivory Coast, but I've got a feeling they might be a little far away from participating in international biathlon)

 

This new Slovak suit is a million times better 

[dcro 10,210]

20 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This new Slovak suit is a million times better 

 

Nah, orange was cool because you immediately spotted them. Meanwhile, which other countries have red, white and blue flag?

[heywoodu 16,017]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Nah, orange was cool because you immediately spotted them. Meanwhile, which other countries have red, white and blue flag?

But I don't see how orange makes sense. For the non-existing Dutch team that'd make sense, just like for example that all-blue of Italy makes sense despite it not being in their flag (much better than the red of a while back). It shouldn't only be easily spottable, it should also make sense  

[heywoodu 16,017]

The South American championships are being held in Portillo in Chile this week, at around 3000 meters altitude so that's nice. Judging by the photo, three nations made it to the podium, with Maria Dominguez of Argentina taking the gold, silver for Claudia Salcedo of Chile and bronze for Brazilian Mika Picin (who won the Brazilian championship, although as far as I know she was the only Brazilian competing, so, yeah..)