Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[EselTheDonkey 824]

Did I understand it correctly, that Russia is not allowed to send a relay?

[justony 454]

How stupid is that, four years ago  was among best mixed relay teams, even with silver from WCH, and because of obscure rules, they were not allowed to sent two female biathletes to Sochi. This time Gregorin is banned and somehow we will sent Poje on her expense. These IBU quotas are very dumb, if you ask me.

[heywoodu 15,174]

7 minutes ago, justony said:

 and because of obscure rules, they were not allowed to sent two female biathletes to Sochi. 

Not because of obscure rules, but because the Slovenian women didn't perform well enough. The rules were rather clear. 

[justony 454]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not because of obscure rules, but because the Slovenian women didn't perform well enough. The rules were rather clear. 

Actually we lost second quota because we did not send our women relay to one of World cup races. For this cycle, to be fair, we would have to send only Eržen, because most points was distributed by Teja Gregorin, which, as we know, was banned for doping.

 

Therefore my opininon is they should modernize standards.

[vovanA 171]

Matvey Eliseev is allowed to participate, so Russia will have at least mixed relay team

[DaniSRB 899]

Appearently Belarus federation asked IOC to include Bjoerndalen in their team

 

http://www.noc.by/articles/item/6313-belorusskaya-federatsiya-biatlona-podala-v-mok-zayavku-na-vklyuchenie-borndalena-v-sostav-delegatsii-na-olimpiadu

Edited January 27, 2018 by DaniSRB

[heywoodu 15,174]

7 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

Appearently Belarus federation asked IOC to include Bjoerndalen in their team

 

http://www.noc.by/articles/item/6313-belorusskaya-federatsiya-biatlona-podala-v-mok-zayavku-na-vklyuchenie-borndalena-v-sostav-delegatsii-na-olimpiadu

 

Bold move 

[heywoodu 15,174]

On 1/25/2018 at 14:18, vovanA said:

Matvey Eliseev is allowed to participate, so Russia will have at least mixed relay team

And actually not a bad one neither!

[heywoodu 15,174]

Oh wait, they want OEB as coach, not athlete. Maybe not 100% impossible then. 

[dcro 10,210]

Oh come on, I'm not even trying, but Google just keeps delivering.

 

Here's the Estonian team in any case.