Biathlon IBU Cup 2019 - 2020

[RobtheAggie 340]

One other thing, Uliana Kaisheva made up 30 seconds on the last lap of the sprint to win.  That is moving.  

[Blue Swede 8]

Gunners old forward Tony Woodcock was always a funny name in Sweden when growing up.

I do concur that he has nothing to do with Biathlon.

[RobtheAggie 340]

Named to the U.S. women’s team for the Open European Championships at the end of the month are

Deedra Irwin

Hallie Grossman (South Burlington, Vermont)

Kelsey Dickinson (Winthrop, Washington)

Maddie Phaneuf (Old Forge)

Kelly Kjorlien (Bozeman, Montana),

 

Men's team is

Max Durtschi

Alex Howe (Gilford, New Hampshire)

Travis Cooper (Kenai, Alaska)

Raleigh Goessling (Duluth, Minnesota)

Luke Brown (Bozeman, Montana) 

[RobtheAggie 340]

It is quite possible that the European Biathlon Championships scheduled for Estonia in a few weeks will be cancelled.  Otepää is dealing with rain and warm weather.  Here is the main stadium on 31 January.

 

 

That would make 3 events on the IBU Cup that have been relocated/cancelled.

[heywoodu 13,557]

Yeah, and Martell is having mightily strong winds this week. Apparently today it's not that bad anymore, hopefully it stays like that (although yesterday, in strong winds, a certain Brazilian shot more 0's than any other athlete, even from the top nations  ).

[heywoodu 13,557]

Amazing result for Claude in the supersprint qualifying, maybe even his best ever. Awesome.

 

[heywoodu 13,557]

My favourite Chinese athlete made the race by one tenth of a second  

 

 

Clean prone shooting for our favourite Brazilian biathlete and cross-country skier, standing was a bit....less good.

[heywoodu 13,557]

50 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Clean prone shooting for our favourite Brazilian biathlete and cross-country skier

 

Bit of an understatement, apparently every single shot was dead center, which is rather rare (especially in competition) and so the coach had no choice but to make a photo he said  (the magnets can't be put on top of one another, which is why it had to be shown like this)

 

Spoiler

 

 

[RobtheAggie 340]

Raubichi is making a bid to host the European Championships.  

 

 

US had 2 men qualify for the Super Spring Final.  Good to see Schempp and Guigonnat skiing well.  I thought Guigonnat was really going to play a big part of the French team this season, but he just has not had a great season.

[heywoodu 13,557]

1 minute ago, RobtheAggie said:

US had 2 men qualify for the Super Spring Final.  Good to see Schempp and Guigonnat skiing well.  I thought Guigonnat was really going to play a big part of the French team this season, but he just has not had a great season.

 

Is a Super Spring a period of time with like really nice and moderate weather, even more so than usual?