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  1. Greetings all. Glad to have finally found an active forum that discusses biathlon. It is hard to find that here in the USA, especially in the South where I live. I look forward to learning a lot from you guys and sharing my opinion.
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  2. Some photos from the women's pursuit in Arber, just because. At the individual and sprint I was near the shooting range, a bit too far away for photos, during the pursuit I was at the course. Waiting for Jill Colebourn, who we - in an attempt to emulate German coaches who yell in their athletes' ears from two meters - succesfully yelled towards her goal of not getting lapped. Dying Jill. Cheering for Chinese Yu Qing (50, gave us a nice Chinese present during the week after befriending my girlfriend at the IBU Cup in Duszniki) and Jill, both fighting with Ana Maka of Poland. On the right is Norwegian former biathlete Tobias Torgersen, until around two years ago the coach of the Brazilians (and the Swedish IBU Cup team), then coach of Poland's women's World Cup team and now working for China. Victoria Slivko of Russia on her way to the sprint-pursuit double. Janina Hettich (7), Nadine Horchler (4) and Ragnhild Femsteinevik (7) fighting behind Slivko. Eventually only Horchler would manage to hold on and get a podium. Kirari Tanaka of Japan can finally go right - towards the finish - instead of left - towards the shooting range and yet another lap.
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  3. I am going to look at the replays of the events I went to, so I can see if I make a cameo in the background
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  4. IOC is also making a profit staging sports that doesn't cost much to have (infrastuctures and quotas wise). Which is defintly the case of squash. That's a - very - important part of the equation. Squash is not an huge money maker, but it does make money (which means there are people who cares about it somewhere), more so than quite a few olympic sports. Unfortunatly for you, that Monzanator has or has not watched any given sport in his lifetime is not (yet) an official critera for olympic inclusion.
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  5. I disagree. Squash is probably one of the favourites to go on to the program. It has 3 positives: 1) Venue costs are low, and in theory can fit.share into a venue already later in the competition. 2) France has a top 10 ranked player in men's and women's 3) The athlete quota is only 64, gender neutral and can fit into the current program.
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  6. I think that Southern emisphere will deserve it, in general, although it would mean to change a lot of calendars and so on; (personally I think that to be able to spread and develop, a lot of sport should plan events all over the year everywhere in the world like tennis does, so in a relatively midterm future, this is not going to be a real problem). In case this happens, I think Chile would be a nice choice.
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  7. Qatar and Japan in the final, Conmebol officials are wizards.
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  8. So, since we sparked the discussion, I thought I would look this up for funsies: How many junior category medalists we actually lost in Biathlon since 2009/10 season 2010 Yann Guigonnet (France) - individual gold (quit in 2015) Michael Galassi (Italy) - individual silver (quit in 2013) Tom Barth (Germany) - individual bronze, sprint bronze (quit in 2013) Reka Forika (Romania) - individual gold (quit in 2016) Leslie Mercier (France) - individual bronze) (quit in 2011) Evgeny Petrov (Russia) - sprint gold, pursuit bronze (quit in 2011) Manuel Muller (Germany) - sprint silver, pursuit gold (quit in 2011) Sophie Boilley (France) - sprint silver, pursuit gold (quit in 2015) Vladimir Alenishko (Russia) - pursuit silver (quit in 2014) Nastassia Kalina (Russia) - pursuit silver (quit in 2015) 2011 Aleksandra Alikina (Russia) - sprint silver, pursuit silver (quit in 2013) Tom Barth (Germany) - sprint gold, pursuit bronze (quit in 2013) Ludwig Ehrhart (France) - sprint bronze, pursuit silver (quit in 2012) Nikolay Yakushov (Russia) - individual bronze (quit in 2012) Florie Vigneron (France) - individual bronze (quit in 2011) 2012 Elena Badanina (Russia) - individual bronze (quit in 2013) Kurtis Wenzel (Canada) - individual gold (quit in 2013) Marius Hol (Norway) - individual silver (quit in 2012) Elena Ankudinova (Russia) - sprint gold (quit in 2015) 2013 Dino Butkovic (Croatia) - individual silver (quit in 2014) 2014 Jarle Gjoerven (Norway) - pursuit silver (quit in 2014) Dany Chavoutier (France) - individual bronze (quit in 2014) 2015 Aleksandr Dediukhin (Russia) - individual silver, sprint gold (quit in 2015) Vemund Gurigard (Norway) - individual bronze, sprint silver (quit in 2015) Lena Arnaud (France) - sprint gold (quit in 2018) 2016 Susanna Kurzthaler (Austria) - individual gold (quit in 2016) Andrea Baretto (Italy) - individual silver (quit in 2017) 2017 Nikita Lobastov (Russia) - individual bronze (quit in 2018) Kirill Streltsov (Russia) - sprint silver (quit in 2018) 2018 Sturla Laegreid (Norway) - individual silver (quit in 2018) Sverre Aspenes (Norway) - sprint bronze, pursuit gold (quit in 2018) A lot of these cases, the juniors dropped the sport mostly after the junior championships, some of them trying a couple of IBU races. A lot of Russians and Norwegians, I think some might have quit since it's very hard making the team and most of others left the sport, because it was their hobby and they did not want that as a career after university. Lastly, a lot of them are medalists from the individual race. Sidenote: Tom Barth looked like he had a lot of potential.
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  9. Given that the last time we hosted them was in 1936, I honestly think Germany deserves it. But right now there's sadly no way that the public will agree.
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  10. Sucks for our lads, but plenty of other interesting skiers today, Kranjec, Hadalin too until last 20 meters, Popov(!), Schwartz, Pinturault, Hirscher...Neureuther looked kinda sentimental, could it be that retirement is coming up? Atmosphere was awesome, I have to visit once during the race. I'm also now believer in Marcel catching up Stenmark. Outstanding skier.
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  11. Nice 6th place with bib 46. for Popov. and
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  13. Zehnhasuern preparing to start..very interesting
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  14. Wumo

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    I cannot accept this as my post number 1000 on this forum. So instead, I will post a random video about Mongolian/Tuvinian wrestling. Because why not.
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  16. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/26/go-south-why-new-zealand-and-australia-should-bid-to-host-the-winter-olympics Australia / New Zealand?
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  17. I want to see Slovenia and Slovakia host a Winter Olympics together. It will be fun with all the confusion about which athletes are from which country.
    1 point
  18. Sweden/Finland are the big ones missing. Poland, Czech, Slovenia, Slovakia are in the next tier.
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  19. Well, you cannot expect immediate success from junior level. Especially if you're Norwegian, French, Russian, German etc. when it takes you years & years to even get on board on the world cup team. There's also the phenomenon where in some years, the biathletes are not as strong, so it's easier to win. I have been looking back at a lot of statistics, following how many Youth & Junior biathletes actually end up achieving success and what is interesting, is that it's usually the hard-working athletes that just don't quit that end up making it further with a lot of those prior winners simply ending their sports careers for different opportunities in life or other reasons. In the case of Doherty, barely any biathletes from his age group have started in the world cup. Emillien Jacquelin comes to mind. Felix Leitner from Austria is slowly moving up the ranks. Pettersen going through the Norwegian ranks, Ponsiluoma sneaking a surprise podium for Sweden in the world cup. After that, there are some that are starting in the world cup from small teams and a few that are stuck at ibu cup level. Looking at the stats of this generation, Doherty still needs a couple of years to produce his best results.
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  20. If youth/junior success was a clear marker of World Cup success, Sean Dougherty should already be challenging for the overall crystal globe. I have no idea of the statistic, but it would be interesting to see what % of Youth/Junior WC medalists ever make it to the podium at the World Cup Events, let alone the World Championships.
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  21. This comment feels so familiar... Even if we have athletes that are talented in youth & junior level, we are always left behind in the senior level
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  22. Yeah, sure... I, for one, have zero interest in this sport, but I can distinguish (or at least trying) between one sport and another whithout relying on personnal/national biases...
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  23. Maybe you think so because it is a niche sport in Poland and it's more like sunday recreational activity here, But it is popular worldwide and I think it should be included at olympics. I can't understand why they are still out of olympics.
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  24. We also need racquetball and soft tennis (and jeu de paume?). That would be perfect.
    1 point
  25. I'm not a big fan of squash but, at least here in Britain, it's the sport that people who don't follow the Olympics are most surprised that it's not included in the Games.
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  26. I disagree, it's quite common for athletes to compete in multiple events in canoeing. It would be like forcing athletes in athletics or swimming to compete in only one event.
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  27. in Canoeing (and Rowing) it would be better to allow a certain (reasonable) number of boats in any event, forbid any form of multiple starts for all the athletes and therefore having the athletes' quota coming only and simply as a direct consequence of the number of boats allowed to compete... p.s. and I would be even stricter on the relationship between qualifiers and actual OG events...any athlete should only be allowed to take part in the Olympic Games in the same event he has qualified for (no switching allowed, only replacing with someone who didn't compete in any Olympic qualifier in case the coaches need/want to replace a qualified athlete because of injury or poor form, if compared with the previous year)... that would make it simple and fair from the beginning, with no tricks, tactics and Countries (athletes) that have to wait until the last second to know if they are in or out because they have to wait for other people's decision making their fortune or misfortune...
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  28. I'm sure if FIPV introduces in 2022 an event which is mixed gender neutral U22 3 people per team, with two sets played at 6.4 points a duration of no more than 143.68 seconds per set and some random repechage, then they pretty much get iin with something around 56 quotas.
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  30. It's probably way too late and it's not going to happen but basque pelota finally reminds itself that it doesn't cost anything to at least trying https://www.francebleu.fr/sports/tous-les-sports/la-pelote-basque-aux-jeux-olympiques-1548337246
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  31. Hold on a minute, Skorusa has a specific girl as hobby. That could either be his girlfriend or, judging by the 'single', someone he's stalking.
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  32. Well done, Ukaleq Her father competed for Denmark in the WOG. She doesn't have to change anything? The Slovakians hosts knew little about her potential if they couldn't find a bigger flag?
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  33. No one can beat her now. Ukaleq Astri Slettemark writes sport history in Greenland. What a day for Greenland! Piluarit (congrats), Greenland and Ukaleq! I'm so happy for her.
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  34. A few bits about Paris additionnal sports in today's l'Equipe. 5 sports max, IOC is pushing for less Domestic popularity is not a priority anymore First list will be sent by Paris 2024 next month (no more sports could be added after that), will be released during IOC next session (June). Only ~10 sports really stand a chance : The five from Tokyo, wakeboarding, squash, wushu, bowling, pétanque and billard They also confirm that additional sports will have to fit with the Paris 2024 venues map and that the additional sports quotas will have to fit under the 10 500 overall athletes quotas (Baseball beeing )
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