Biathlon IBU World Cup 2017 - 2018

[hckošice 15,521]

Team Slovakia for Stage 5 in Ruhpolding (GER)

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

Individual Men´s (10.01)

Matej Kazár, Martin Otčenáš, Tomáš Hasilla, Šimon Bartko

 

Individual Women´s  (11.01)

Anastasiya Kuzmina, Terézia Poliaková, Paulína Fialková, Ivona Fialková

 

Relay Men´s (12.01)

Matej Kazár, Martin Otčenáš, Tomáš Hasilla, Šimon Bartko - Legs Order to be decided

 

Relay Women´s  (13.01)

Anastasiya Kuzmina, Terézia Poliaková, Paulína Fialková, Ivona Fialková - Legs Order to be decided

 

Mass Start Men´s (14.01)

No qualified athlete

 

Mass Start Women´s (14.01)

Anastasiya Kuzmina

 

 

[Werloc 3,191]

Thankfully it's going to be a short episode of "Werloc doing biathlon things".

 

Anyways, for starters, team Austria is with changes as Simon Eder is back in the team, Felix Leitner gets the boot.

Smolski comes in instead of Chepelin for Belarus.

Anev is back and is switched with Sinapov, even though Sinapov had the best performance in Oberhof.

Davies comes in instead of Campbell for Canada.

Slesingr and Hosek comes in instead of Soukup and Krupcik.

Koiv is in instead of Lessing for Estonia.

Simon Fourcade is back in the A Team for France and Beatrix is moved to the IBU cup, which is most likely his worst season performance in many many years.

Erik Lesser is back for Germany and now they're starting the full 6 athletes.

1 switch for Kazakhstan and Lapshin tags out for Korea as Heo comes in.

Two changes for team Latvia as Rastorgujevs is back and also Ilmars Bricis is in after reaching the qualification standard in the IBU cup.

Many surprises in Norway. Tarjei Boe is missing as well as Birkeland. Bjoentegaard and Christiansen coming in in their place (Still, pretty unfair to Gjesbakk if you ask me)

1 switch for Poland and 1 for Romania.

Shopin and Garanichev come back for team Russia, Babikov and Tsvetkov not in the team.

1 change for Slovenia and a serious hit to Switzerland as Weger is missing from this one, Dolder is brought in.

Otcenas and Kazar back from the IBU cup to the team.

And super Sweden, exchanging Peppe Femling with Stenersen.

1 addition for team USA as Bailley is back in the team.

 

Anyways, it ended up not being a short episode, surprisingly a very long list of changes.

 

Edit: Missed to add that Crnkovic is in for Croatia.

 

Edited January 10, 2018 by Werloc

[Bohemia 1,447]

Marie Dorin-Habert will retire at the end of the season (link of the article in French: https://www.lequipe.fr/Biathlon/Actualites/Marie-dorin-arretera-sa-carriere-a-la-fin-de-la-saison-je-ne-suis-pas-au-niveau/865255)

[heywoodu 16,004]

7 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

Marie Dorin-Habert will retire at the end of the season (link of the article in French: https://www.lequipe.fr/Biathlon/Actualites/Marie-dorin-arretera-sa-carriere-a-la-fin-de-la-saison-je-ne-suis-pas-au-niveau/865255)

The first of many announced retirements this season I guess. 

[rybak 3,303]

10 minut temu, heywoodu napisał:

The first of many announced retirements this season I guess. 

Weronika Nowakowska will retire after this season too, if you don't know :/

[heywoodu 16,004]

6 minutes ago, rybak said:

Weronika Nowakowska will retire after this season too, if you don't know :/

I had expected such a thing

 

[Werloc 3,191]

51 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

The first of many announced retirements this season I guess. 

I'm afraid, honestly. There will be so freaking many Hopefully Makarainen stays a little bit longer, my all time favourite athlete...

[Werloc 3,191]

Very anxious prior to today's race. Theoretically, it is our best chance to have a decent result, but with numbers 74+77 and somewhere in the nineties, the track might not be in a good condition, I expect some slow ski times.

[heywoodu 16,004]

So far it's a hugely impressive performance from Bjoerndalen, right when his Olympic participation is hanging by a thread

[dcro 10,210]

Looks like Kaukenas is again planning to win a medal in this event.