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Tomasz Sikora says wind is much worse than in the men's race. Could spoil a surprise or two. Herrmann 5/5.

Apparently Ponsiluoma is the first male to win World Championship gold in an individual race since 1958

Really happy for Suter. She seems like a likeable athlete and almost too shy for the big stage. I can only guess Lara Gut is the #1 celebrity in Swiss winter sports and gets all the media attention

Yeah, I have no idea why Germany has such huge depth issues in biathlon. Other than Army cutting down fundings which would be strange since biathlon is like very popular in Germany. The Horchlers becoming full-time World Cup starters at age 30 was the first strike, they're gone and we have Anna Weidel shooting 10/10 and finishing 49th in Oberhof which is basement level tbh. Hammerschmidt was always #5 or 6 at best, below relay-worthy but without the top performers she's like a stable number 4 now. Herrmann will turn 33 IIRC, Hinz keeps blowing hot & cold and there's only Preuss that has improved after Dahlmeier's retirement. It doesn't look good at all. Over on the men's side there are Doll and Peiffer and well, Kuehn tends to do well from time to time and that would be it. What's up with Nawrath is anyone's guess and Schempp has succumbed to age.

Well, Hewitt pushed the envelope but he actually won some GS then came Tomic and things went sideways fast. Kyrgios seems to thrive on his enfant terrible image ever since the Donna Vekic comments BUT unlike Monfils who kinda went up with the clown show himself, nobody seems to find Kyrgios' antics funny at all.

But it's still the same Tofana course? It's not like Italians don't know it like the back of their hand. But then why even enter in DH training?

Desthieux turned 29 yo in December. He's not that old. Actually the fact Jacquelin was the defending pursuit champion enabled France to field 5 men in the sprint. Polish ES argued if they could only field four then Desthieux would have been the odd man out.

Bassino & Brignone skipped the trainings - I suppose they don't believe the combine will take place or what? KV Lie for once further back in training, I wonder if she can win a medal here? WIth Goggia out it's anyone's guess. Gut, Suter, Johnson & Lie are my four names to have the biggest chance.

Yeah, Lesser finished behind Guzik with the same number of misses. I'd never thought I'll see a day when Germany fields a guy who is skiing slower than Guzik

Ponsiluoma - Desthieux - Jacquelin won the medals. Jake Brown 12th in the end.

Being an idiot doesn't make you entertaining

Desthieux goes 2nd! No medal for Norway Could be the only race with no medal for them at these Champs.

Desthieux will probably deny Dale a medal. Dale only 0,1 ahead of JTB.

Latypov 9/10 and RBU revenge looming!

Jake Brown 10/10 and 6th for the moment. Probably PB on the line? @RobtheAggie will probably be happy with this Samuelsson with a bad last lap and only 4th.

Jacquelin 9/10 and in the medal contention. Looks like no medal for Norway unless J.Dale saves them.

Laegreid lost 14 secs to Ponsiluoma on the last lap Samuelsson 9/10 can still get a medal.

Laegreid 10/10 but 9 secs, behind Ponsiluoma. JTB 3/5 in prone

There he goes! Ponsiluoma 10/10! Medal watch here!

Maybe Ponsiluoma finally hits 10/10 and gets among the medallists?

The court is so big people would be safer sitting there than lining up to leave the arena. 60-90 minutes extra pending on the 5th set wouldn't make any difference for safety IMO.

Just a total clown show... they had qualies in Dubai, then mices in hotels and now kicking fans out in the middle of the match. Australia is a total mess in handling this pandemic

Okay, I'm out. No point to talking to you whatsoever. I should have known better. My bad.

No politician in this country cares about biathlon, we wouldn't get the World Cup even if Civic Platform was in charge & Trzaskowski was the President either We're good enough to host European Champs but not good enough to beat Nove Mesto just for one World Cup date. With Russian venues out, this is the time to beat Riaubichi for the spot but sadly everyone only cares about ski jumping during the winter. Bobsleigh has more or less died and cross country hangs on because Justyna Kowalczyk decided to coach Monika Skinder by herself. I'm not even gonna talk about alpine skiing because the Nosal hill has been abandoned for like 25 years now?

Swiatek beats Ferro, sets up Halep in R4. Btw, Australia's hard lockdown isn't working much, they keep reviving it and it doesn't help the cause at all. If Victoria struggles so badly with it then it shows how better Europe is handling it right now.