Biathlon IBU World Cup 2017 - 2018

[Werloc 3,164]

I'm afraid to comment on this race For reasons

[Werloc 3,164]

Fuck everything, I knew it. 0+0+0, camera zooms in, Sochi all over again

[Bohemia 1,411]

Damn, 3 misses for OEB

[heywoodu 15,135]

Come on Norwegian selection committee, get real and don't choose OEB for Pyeongchang.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Wow Roman, what a race 

[justony 454]

I would love to see Ole in Relay on Friday and then they should decide, but still I believe there is a place for him in Norwegian squad.

 

My pick would be:

NO DOUBT

1) J.T. Boe - 5 wins and 9 podiums says everything

2) T. Boe - only one who beat Fourcade and J.T. Boe this season

3) Svendsen - though he had not start all races, had quite good results (one 2nd, three 4th)

QUITE CONSISTENT

4) Birkeland - he only came in twice in top 10, but would we very weird put at home 11th best biathlete of the season

RACE OFF FOR TWO PLACES

5) L'Abee Lund - very good in Hochfilzen (5th/8th), but with some downs in other races

6) Bjoentegaard - did very well in Relay, single only twice 10th

7) Bjoerndalen - still waiting for his breakthrough, but is still faster than all other guys in this group, except L'Abee Lund. Still proper man for anchor leg in Relay.

8) Christiansen - second choice for being in 1st leg of Relay, individually only today won his first points of the season

9) Gjesbakk - too bad he got his chance only once in WC, but he came in 7th in Annecy.

 

 

[SalamAkhi 316]

Actually Bjoerndalen is not faster than the others, Bjoentegaard made the 5th (!) time this afternoon, 1 minute ahead of L'Abée Lund and 1m30 ahead of Bjoerdalen.

In Hochfilzen, Bjoentegaard was also in front of him.

Even a place in the relay is not justified, the fact that he is able to do the job doesn't mean he deserves a spot in the team, Birkeland is faster and better on the range than him so far ...

[justony 454]

14 minutes ago, SalamAkhi said:

Actually Bjoerndalen is not faster than the others, Bjoentegaard made the 5th (!) time this afternoon, 1 minute ahead of L'Abée Lund and 1m30 ahead of Bjoerdalen.

In Hochfilzen, Bjoentegaard was also in front of him.

Even a place in the relay is not justified, the fact that he is able to do the job doesn't mean he deserves a spot in the team, Birkeland is faster and better on the range than him so far ...

Sorry, I miscalculated, Bjoentegaard was really quite fast, but L'Abee Lund not, if he would miss as many as Ole, he would end up 6 seconds behind.

Though I would like to see him compete in Pyeongchang (also Johannes Boe said there are no Olympics without Ole), he did not meet with Norwegian standards (one top 6 or two top 12 finish). Therefore I would give him one last try in the relay, give him some internal standard to achieve and if not, bye bye Pyeongchang. 

[heywoodu 15,135]

Both Bjoentegard and Gjesbakk are (significantly) faster than Bjoerndalen. There's actually 7 Norwegians in the World Cup top-30 when looking purely at the speed rankings, Bjoerndalen is way, way down in 71st (!) place.

[hckošice 14,822]

First seasons points for our men´s team Well done Matej for a nice 18th place, meaning our mens biathlon is on board in this season too, just pity he missed to qualify for the mass start for only some 13 seconds, he had to finish 16th instead of Johannes Kuehn in order to qualify, but well, what can we do, it is still a huge result, without this one miss he would have finished in top 10, so 18th is very good even if we realize that he apparently had a crash in this race but bravely fought until the end to grab those first our males 23 points. 

 

The other good news is that all our competitors today reached again the standards for PyeongChang, so all 4 Matej Kazár, Martin Otčenáš, Tomáš Hasilla and Šimon Bartko will very likely be part of our Olympic team, the 5th athlete will be likely Michal Šíma, but everything is still to be confirmed yet