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Team event WR points ranking before the start of the Olympics qualification. Currently only and has 6/6 Olympic spots. And obviously a lot will change if certain "neutral" teams will appear as they would very likely take 6 team spots. Sum ME WE MF WF MS WS 2088 344 340 400 448 268 288 1934 412 336 273 324 223 366 1865 260 424 203 200 448 330 1580 153 253 380 344 238 212 1487 262 141 328 292 208 256 1464 276 190 159 167 376 296 1157 201 230 157 228 191 150 1137 148 169 147 218 255 200 1041 182 211 155 169 174 149 1009 119 239 202 201 74 174 1006 116 123 163 240 196 168 954 161 90 112 201 163 227 936 146 170 230 112 206 72 858 70 215 215 133 138 87 575 58 68 165 121 83 80 511 0 116 8 123 164 100 464 36 62 124 94 68 80 460 250 202 0 0 8 0 451 32 64 88 149 56 62 431 83 50 120 156 22 0 429 218 70 32 25 40 44 425 198 157 62 8 0 0 382 142 0 0 0 92 148 366 122 36 34 38 108 29 359 32 40 52 52 48 135 ... 250 8 16 0 0 210 16 245 24 0 0 0 0 221

World Cup + Grand Prix medal table after 58 events 15-17-17 10-6-21 9-2-5 6-5-7 5-5-6 3-2-10 2-3-1 2-1-4 2-0-1 2-0-0 1-1-2 1-0-0 0-2-4 0-2-3 0-2-2 0-2-1 0-1-1 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-2 0-0-2 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 Individual events medal table 10-9-14 7-1-3 4-1-6 3-6-17 2-3-1 2-1-5 2-1-4 2-0-0 2-0-0 1-1-2 0-2-3 0-2-2 0-1-3 0-1-2 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-2 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 Team events medal table 7-0-4 5-8-3 5-4-3 2-4-1 2-1-2 1-1-5 1-0-0 0-1-1 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1

Women’s Olympic Rankings (As of March 26, 2023) B Bold= Qualified for Paris 2024 via World Ranking, R Bold= Quota limit already reached, G Bold= Host Country Quota. 1. Hughes/Cheng (2560 PTS) 2. Nuss/Kloth (2160 PTS) 3. Clancy/Mariafe (2000 PTS) 4. Stam/Schoon (1960 PTS) 5. Duda/Ana Patricia (1860 PTS) 6. Hermanova/Stochlova (1540 PTS) 7. Brandie/Melissa (1520 PTS) 8. Talita/Thamela (1400 PTS) 9. Samoilova/Graudina (1360 PTS) 10. Barbora/Carol (1360 PTS) 11. Menegatti/Gottardi (1360 PTS) 12. Kraft/Stockman (1260 PTS) 13. Müller/Tillmann (1220 PTS) 14. Pavan/Bukovec (1200 PTS) 15. Cannon/Sponcil (1200 PTS) 16. Placette/Richard (1200 PTS) 17. Brunner/Hüberli (1100 PTS) 18. Ishii/Mizoe (1100 PTS) 19. Simo/Rodriguez (1100 PTS) 20. Klinger/Klinger (1020 PTS) 21. Borger/Ittlinger (920 PTS) 22. Flores/Guttierez (920 PTS) 23. Zeng/Lin (860 PTS) 24. Carro/Lobato (800 PTS) 25. Harward/Kolinske (800 PTS) 26. Taiana Lima/Hegeile (800 PTS) 27. Liliana/Soria (760 PTS) 28. Andressa/Vitoria (740 PTS) 29. Polley/Zeimann (740 PTS) 30. Tainá/Victoria (720 PTS) 31. Lahti/Ahtiainen (700 PTS) 32. Sude/Schneider (640 PTS) 33. Böbner/Vergé-Dépré (620 PTS) 34. Akiko/Yurika (560 PTS) 35. Lunina/Lazarenko (480 PTS) 36. Vidaurrazaga/Albarran (480 PTS) 37. Paulikiene/Raupelyte (460 PTS) 38. Scoles/Flint (460 PTS) 39. Wang/Zhu (360 PTS) 40. MacDonald/Tilley (360 PTS) 41. Álvarez/Moreno (340 PTS) 42. Makhno/Makhno (340 PTS) 43. Marcelle/Monkhouse (320 PTS) 44. Havelkova/Slukova (300 PTS) 45. Suzuka/Reika (300 PTS) 46. Erika/Michelle (300 PTS) 47. Dunn/Furlan (280 PTS) 48. Mears/Phillips (240 PTS) 49. Rebuffel/Benhamou (240 PTS) 50. Motomura/Riko (240 PTS) 51. Vesty/Stevenson (240 PTS) 52. Kathi/Lena (220 PTS) 53. McKay/Wuttunee (220 PTS) 54. Megan/Nicole (220 PTS) 55. Wang/Dong (220 PTS) 56. Kociolek/Lodej (220 PTS) 57. Quiggle/Schmerhorn (220 PTS) 58. Fleming/Johnson (180 PTS) 59. Kendall/Bettenay (180 PTS) 60. Miharu/Sakai (180 PTS) 61. Månesköld/Bergholm (180 PTS) 62. McBain/Bélanger (140 PTS) 63. Rivas Zapata/Chris (140 PTS) 64. Dvronikova/Pospisilova (140 PTS) 65. Hollas/Soomets (140 PTS) 66. Sinsalo/Parkkinen (140 PTS) 67. Chamereau/Vieira (140 PTS) 68. Murakami/Sakurako (140 PTS) 69. Shiba/Maruyama (140 PTS) 70. Yamada/Take (140 PTS) 71. Rivera/Torres (140 PTS) 72. Green/Hanabadi (140 PTS) 73. Harrison/Isherwood (140 PTS) 74. Imhasly/Ruru (140 PTS) 75. Sadlier/Clarke (140 PTS)

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No idea, I thought you and @intorontowere the guys of Panamerican Quotas

The push comes from Russian money. Nobody is bribing them to ban Russians, but they sure get a lot of money if they cancel the ban. Fencing is a small sport where Russians have a ton of influence as they are one of the three top European nations besides Italy and France. I am sure certain people in FIE got their bribes. It's very important for Russia to have their athletes at the Games, they know it very well that it would be a big win for them on the international stage as it would be a sign that the world doesn't care enough about the war or Ukraine to sever ties with Russia and its people for a longer period of time.

Men’s Olympic Rankings Continued… (As of March 26, 2023) 76. Pascariuc/Leitner (140 PTS) 77. Furuta/Dylan (140 PTS) 78. Abella/Blake (140 PTS) 79. Shindo/Oda (140 PTS) 80. Zhouxin/Xue (140 PTS) 81. Kolinske/Smith (140 PTS) 82. Potts/Clarkin (100 PTS) 83. Field/Gale (100 PTS) 84. Tiso/Anyang (100 PTS) 85. Kraji/Stewart (100 PTS) 86. Gilliespie/Preston (60 PTS) 87. Taira/Watanabe (60 PTS) 88. Dalton/Watson (60 PTS) 89. Sadlier/Smith (60 PTS) 90. Tiplady/Black (60 PTS)

Dudinska 50 (20 km race walk) March 25, 2023 Men's: Eider Arévalo Perseus Karlström Women's Alegna González

Of note: Ivy is only 12 years old! And the youngest medalist at an international weightlifting competition

Ice Hockey Domestic Leagues 2022 - 2023

well, not really but Albania is hosting MEK I mean those 80 years old guys are not really dangerous right now (they used to be but that was long time ago) but Iran and Albania are not the best friends at the moment and a youth weightlifting team is "expandable" for those old corrupt politicians (they don't even know what it takes to be an athlete), I'm sure they would send a team if it was a senior World Championship ps: I think people here are not familiar with MEK, it's hard to explain this super weird group/cult, let's say they are the Iranian version of IS

insidethegames genius journalists do not know the difference between Iran and Iraq

Moldova 0-0 Czechia. Big result for Moldova. Shock result of tonight.

Not like anyone cares but Extra League Finals are in the process too. GKS Katowice leads GKS Tychy 2-0 after two away wins.

DEL Playoffs 1st Round Recap (Best-of-3 Series) Düsseldorfer EG (7) - Löwen Frankfurt (10) 2-0 (5-0; 5-1) Pinguins Bremerhaven (8) - Nürnberg Ice Tigers (9) 2-0 (3-1; 4-2)

DEL Regular Season Final Standings 1.EHC Red Bull Munich, 122 Pts 2.ERC Ingolstadt, 103 Pts 3.Adler Mannheim, 99 Pts Full Ranking https://www.penny-del.org/spielplan Individual Stats RS Best Scorer: Andreas Thuresson (Kölner Haie) & Yasin Ehliz (Red Bull Munich), both 60 Pts RS Best Goal Scorer: Tyson Spink (Schwenninger Wild Wings), 31 Goals RS Best Goaltender by GAA: Mathias Niederberger (Red Bull Munich), 2.17 GAA (38 games played) RS Best Goaltender by SVS%: Joacim Eriksson (Schwenninger Wild Wings), 92.45% (45 games played)

NLA Playoffs Quarterfinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) Genève-Servette HC (1) - HC Lugano (10) 4-2 (6-3; 0-2; 3-2 3OT; 1-2 OT; 5-1; 5-2) EHC Biel-Bienne (2) - SC Bern (8) 4-2 (3-0; 4-2; 3-5; 2-3; 3-1; 4-3) SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers (3) - EV Zug (6) 2-4 (2-5; 3-4; 4-1; 0-3; 4-1; 1-4) ZSC Lions Zürich (4) - HC Davos (5) 4-1 (4-1; 1-2; 3-2; 3-2 2OT; 1-0)

NLA Playoffs 1st Round Recap (Best-of-3 Series) Fribourg-Gottèron (7) - HC Lugano (10) 0-2 (1-2; 0-2) SC Bern (8) - EHC Kloten (9) 2-1 (5-1; 1-4; 5-0)

NLA Regular Season Final Standings 1.Genève-Servette HC, 101 Pts 2.EHC Biel-Bienne, 101 Pts 3.SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, 92 Pts Full Ranking https://www.sihf.ch/de/game-center/national-league/#/standing/rank/asc/page/0/ Individual Stats RS Best Scorer: Roman Cervenka (SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers), 59 Pts RS Best Goal Scorer: Teemu Hartikainen (Genève-Servette HC), 28 Goals RS Best Goaltender by GAA: Simon Hrubec (ZSC Lions Zürich), 2.23 GAA (33 games as a starter) RS Best Goaltender by SVS%: Damiano Ciaccio (HC Ajoie), 89.72% (25 games as a starter)

47th All Japan Race Walking In Nomi March 19th 2023 Men's Declan Tingay, Kyle Swan, Rhydian Cowley Haifeng Qian Yuta Koga, Yutaro Murayama (Haruki Manju missed out by 5 seconds) Vikash Singh, Paramjeet Singh Bishit Women's Jemima Montag, Rebecca Henderson, Olivia Sandery Lorena Arenas ( Lan Gao missed out by 5 seconds)

Extraliga Playoffs 1st Round Recap (Best-of-5 Series) Bílí Tygři Liberec (5) - HC Škoda Plzeň (12) 3-2 (4-1; 0-6; 3-1; 1-2 OT; 4-3 OT) HC Oceláři Třinec (6) - HC VERVA Litvínov (11) 3-0 (3-1; 5-4 OT; 4-2) HC Kometa Brno (7) - BK Mladá Boleslav (10) 3-1 (4-2; 2-1; 1-2; 5-1) HC Olomouc (8) - HC Energie Karlovy Vary (9) 3-1 (4-1; 4-7; 3-2 OT; 3-0)

Extraliga Regular Season Final Standings 1.HC Dynamo Pardubice, 108 Pts 2.HC Vìtkovice Ridera, 102 Pts 3.HC Sparta Prague, 99 Pts Full Ranking https://www.hokej.cz/tipsport-extraliga/table Individual Stats RS Best Scorer: Martin Ružička (HC Ocelarí Třinec), 52 Pts RS Best Goal Scorer: Marko Dano (HC Ocelarí Třinec), 29 Goals RS Best Goaltender by GAA: Henri Kiviaho (Mountfield HK), 1.85 GAA (34 games played) RS Best Goaltender by SVS%: Dominik Furch (HC Kometa Brno), 92.61% (40 games played)

Liiga Playoffs 1st Round Recap (Best-of-3 Series) Kärpät Oulu (7) - KooKoo Kouvola (10) 1-2 (4-2; 1-4; 0-5) Ässät Pori (8) - TPS Turku (9) 2-1 (2-1; 1-2; 2-1)

Liiga Regular Season Final Standings 1.Tappara Tampere, 116 Pts 2.Ilves Tampere, 114 Pts 3.Lukko Rauma, 105 Pts Full Ranking https://liiga.fi/en/stats/teams Individual Stats RS Best Scorer: Michael Joly (HPK Hämeenlinna), 64 Pts RS Best Goal Scorer: Reid Gardiner (JYP Jyväskylä), 27 Goals RS Best Goaltender by GAA: Marek Langhamer (Ilves Tampere), 1.83 GAA (40 games played) RS Best Goaltender by SVS%: Marek Langhamer (Ilves Tampere), 92.38% (40 games played)

SHL Playoffs 1st Round Recap (Best-of-3 Series) IK Oskarshamn (7) - Luleå HF (10) 1-2 (4-5; 4-3 OT; 2-3 OT) Leksands IF (8) - Rögle BK (9) 1-2 (2-1 OT; 2-3; 2-4)

SHL Regular Season Final Standings 1.Växjö Lakers HC, 102 Pts 2.Skellefteå AIK, 99 Pts 3.Färjestad BK, 90 Pts Full Ranking https://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Standings/13469 Individual Stats RS Best Scorer: Antti Suomela (IK Oskarshamn), 66 Pts RS Best Goal Scorer: Antti Suomela (IK Oskarshamn), 37 Goals RS Best Goaltender by GAA: Emil Larmi (Växjö Lakers), 1.62 GAA (30 games as a starter) RS Best Goaltender by SVS%: Emil Larmi (Växjö Lakers), 93.95% (30 games as a starter)

It doesn't. 2021 and 2022 were used to determine quotas (which btw still haven't been released)

Men's Team Epee ( Buenos Aires) Gold: Hungary Silver: Venezuela Bronze: Czechia Semifinals Hungary b. Czechia 35-28 Venezuela b. Kazakhstan 45-37 Bronze Medal Match Czechia b. Kazakhstan 45-33 Gold Medal Match Hungary b. Venezuela 32-26 Full Ranking & Results https://engarde-service.com/index.php?lang=en&Organisme=federacion_argentina_de_esgrima&Event=tiem2023&Compe=equipos

Women’s Olympic Rankings Continued… (As of March 26, 2023) 76. Muno/Gaffney (140 PTS) 77. Clough/Pola (100 PTS) 78. Beitler/McGuire (100 PTS)

These should be the UCI rankings quotas (track cycling). Not 100% confirmed until Copaci says so (arguably the worst CF with UPAG) Men's team Sprint: Men's team pursuit: Men's Madison: Men's Sprint: Men's Keirin: Men's Omnium: Women's team Sprint: Women's team pursuit: Women's Madison: Women's Sprint: Women's Keirin: Women's Omnium:

Men’s Olympic Rankings (As of March 26, 2023) B Bold= Qualified for Paris 2024 via World Ranking, R Bold= NOC quota limit already reached, G Bold= Host Country Quota. 1. Åhman/Hellvig (2760 PTS) 2. Mol/Sørum (2300 PTS) 3. Carambula/Ranghieri (1760 PTS) 4. Ehlers/Wickler (1760 PTS) 5. Boermans/de Groot (1660 PTS) 6. Herrera/Gavira (1560 PTS) 7. Brouwer/Meeuwsen (1520 PTS) 8. Bryl/Łosiak (1500 PTS) 9. Grimalt/Grimalt (1360 PTS) 10. Nicolai/Cottafava (1360 PTS) 11. Burnett/McHugh (1260 PTS) 12. Seidl/Pristauz (1120 PTS) 13. Cherif/Ahmed (1060 PTS) 14. Brunner/Crabb (1060 PTS) 15. Nõlvak/Tiisaar (1060 PTS) 16. Evandro/Arthur (1020 PTS) 17. Renato/Vitor Felipe (1000 PTS) 18. Andre/George (1000 PTS) 19. Hodges/Schubert (940 PTS) 20. Schacter/Dearing (940 PTS) 21. Lupo/Rossi (900 PTS) 22. Ermacora/Waller (800 PTS) 23. Perusic/Schweiner (760 PTS) 24. Hörl/Horst (760 PTS) 25. Bourne/Schalk (760 PTS) 26. Virgen/Sarabia (760 PTS) 27. Samoilovs/Smedins (620 PTS) 28. Bassereau/Lyneel (600 PTS) 29. Cory/Webber (560 PTS) 30. Krattiger/Breer (560 PTS) 31. Mermer/Urlu (540 PTS) 32. MacNeil/Russell (480 PTS) 33. Diaz/Alayo (460 PTS) 34. Krou/Gauthier Rat (460 PTS) 35. Saymon/Vinicius (460 PTS) 36. Mol/Berntsen (460 PTS) 37. Kantor/Rudol (460 PTS) 38. Dumek/Sedlak (460 PTS) 39. Abdallah/Essam (460 PTS) 40. Likejiang/Jiaxin (400 PTS) 41. Luini/Penninga (360 PTS) 42. O’Dea/O’Dea (360 PTS) 43. Lorenz/Reinhardt (340 PTS) 44. Hajós/Stréli (340 PTS) 45. Plavins/Samoilovs (340 PTS) 46. Hood/Mazim (340 PTS) 47. Brewster/Friend (340 PTS) 48. Cruz/Barajas (340 PTS) 49. Luini/Penninga (340 PTS) 50. McKienzie/Vaught (320 PTS) 51. Arthur/Adrielson (300 PTS) 52. Pedrosa/Campos (300 PTS) 53. Gabriel/Felipe Alves (300 PTS) 54. Hartles/Heijs (280 PTS) 55. Reid/McManaway (240 PTS) 56. Kurokawa/Fukushima (240 PTS) 57. Takken/Bushby (240 PTS) 58. Fuller/Nicklin (240 PTS) 59. Capogrosso/Capogrosso (220 PTS) 60. Aravena/Droguett (220 PTS) 61. Kulzer/Poniewaz (220 PTS) 62. Sowa/Pfretzschner (220 PTS) 63. Dal Corzo/Viscovich (220 PTS) 64. Hood/Josefsen (180 PTS) 65. Schwarmann/Kaufer (180 PTS) 66. Forsyth/Vukets (180 PTS) 67. McKelvie/Stewart (180 PTS) 68. Carracher/Nicolaidis (140 PTS) 69. Cruz/Aguirre (140 PTS) 70. Galindo/Barajas (140 PTS) 71. Tocs/Fokerots (140 PTS) 72. Houmann/Mølgaard (140 PTS) 73. Heidrich/Dillier (140 PTS) 74. Pedro/Henrique (140 PTS) 75. Johann/Lucas Aguinelo (140 PTS)

Women's 100m seems like the least likely of this list.

Tepic, Mexico Elite16 - March 22-26, 2023 Men’s Results Gold Medal Match Åhman/Hellvig d. Mol/Sørum 2-0 (21-16, 21-15) Bronze Medal Match Ehlers/Wickler d. Boermans/de Groot 2-0 (24-22, 21-16) Men’s Medalists Gold- David Åhman/Jonathan Hellvig Silver- Anders Mol/Christian Sørum Bronze- Nils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler Women’s Results Gold Medal Match Hughes/Cheng d. Duda/Ana Patricia 2-1 (21-14, 15-21, 15-10) Bronze Medal Match Clancy/Mariafe d. Menegatti/Gottardi 2-1 (16-21, 21-17, 19-17) Women’s Medalists Gold- Sara Hughes/Kelly Cheng Silver- Eduarda Santos Lisboa/Ana Patricia Silva Ramos Bronze- Taliqua Clancy/Mariafe Artacho Del Solar

This is why I don’t understand the push to include Russians and Belarusians as neutrals. I mean, I understand the moral argument behind it, but from a business and public relations stand point, I really don’t get it. There were not NOCs lining up to cancel and boycott events when those athletes were banned, even the nations viewed as more sympathetic to those athletes were not really making it a front page issue. It may not have been an ideal status quo, but it was a tenable business/operations/public relations environment. Now, fencing, and depending on IOC decisions this week, maybe the rest of international sport, have been thrown right back into uncertainty and politically fraught environments. It just seems detrimental to the global image and business opportunities of international sport.

I wonder what will happen with the European Championships. They can't do anything about it, it's part of the European Games and it will be Poland. There's no way that Poland will allow Russians there and it would look awful if they take fencing out of the European Games just because FIE wants Russians to be part of this sport. And the most important of it all: what does Italy think? Because they are hosting the World Championships. Russians will have an incredibly hard time to qualify to Paris if they can't attend the WCh. And it would obviously be an enormous scandal if Milan cancels the WCh. And there are also two more WC events in Europe this season, in and . FIE can't possibly move the entire fencing calendar out of Europe.

Obviously impossible to predict this early. I think the following records in olympic events are safe: Men's 50/400/800 free, men's 100/200 breast, men's 200 back, men's 400 free relay, men's medley relay, women's 50/800/1500 free, women's 100 breast, women's 200 fly, women's 200 IM. The 3 records in olympic events for each gender that are (in my opinion) the most likely to be broken: Men: 400 IM, 100 free, 200 IM/200 fly/100 back Women: 200 back, 100 fly, 400 free/100 back/200 breast/400 IM/800 free relay Number of world records in olympic events that were broken at the last 5 world championships: 2013: 2 (both by Ledecky) 2015: 5 (4 on the women's side (2 of them by Ledecky) + the mixed medley relay) 2017: 5 (4 on the women's side + the mixed medley relay) 2019: 4 (2 on both sides, but the 2 on the women's side were both in relays) 2022: 2 (both on the men's side) -> From 2013 to 2017 not a single world record on the men's side was broken (but 10 on the women's side), but at the last two editions all 4 individual records that were broken were on the men's side. So if i would have to guess the number of records that will be broken, i would say 3 or 4. Also interesting: Oldest world record on the men's side: 400 IM (Phelps in 2008) Oldest world record on the women's side: 200 free (Pellegrini in 2009) Records on the men's side that were set before 2010: 50 free, 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 200 back, 400 IM, 400 free relay, 800 free relay Records on the women's side that were set before 2010: 200 free, 200 fly

Final results from the championship. For India this is huge result in the last 20 odd years that I have following India's performance in world championships .... This is the first time we have won a major world championship in an Olympic sport so definately a big big day for India 🎉🎉🎉🎉💥💥🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 India* 4 0 0 4 2 China 3 1 3 7 3 Russia 1 1 1 3 4 Italy 1 1 0 2 5 Brazil 1 0 1 2 Morocco 1 0 1 2 7 Chinese Taipei 1 0 0 1 8 Kazakhstan 0 2 4 6 9 Colombia 0 2 2 4 10 Australia 0 2 1 3 11 Mongolia 0 1 1 2 Thailand 0 1 1 2 13 Vietnam 0 1 0 1 14 France 0 0 3 3 15 Azerbaijan 0 0 1 1 Belarus 0 0 1 1 Bulgaria 0 0 1 1 Japan 0 0 1 1 South Korea 0 0 1 1 Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1 Totals (20 entries) 12 12 24 48

Update on sailing quotas: https://panamsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/STATUS-OF-COUNTRY-QUALIFICATION-SANTIAGO-2023-20-MARCH-2023-w-NOC-CONFIRMATIONS.pdf qualified for all Olympic classes, while missed out on a men’s IQFOiL quota.

Iran withdrew from this competition for "security concerns" that happened something like 10 days ago, feel really sorry for those kids they trained probably weeks and months for this event, it sucks how easily some old stupid corrupt politicians can ruin careers of young athletes.

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I could not find anything more about him either. A sad story, but maybe not really related to biathlon.

RIP Ángel Fournier