Monzanator

7 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Hojnisz 15/15.

 

I fear she's gonna miss two in the last shooting though

Hello, what did I say?

Hojnisz 15/15.

I fear she's gonna miss two in the last shooting though

Serious but non-life threatening injuries for Newman.

Monika Hojnisz once again draws an early start number for the individual (#8).

Joanna Jakieła (#96) will make her World Cup debut. She has had only 7 IBU Cup starts in the seniors with her best result of 15th in Ridnaun super sprint last season.

Ryan Newman has been taken away in ambulance. Not looking good here

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Daytona still proving it’s the one interesting NASCAR race 

Classic modern Daytona. 135 laps of boredom and then the shitshow began. The last 20 laps lasted one hour

More wrecking. Logano won't win it.

Logano caused the Big One.

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Right, but there are still countries that have the right conditions, but that aren’t competitive. 
 

I’m greatly satisfied with the amount of countries, but that shouldn’t stop the IBU for pushing for even more nations. 
 

To you it doesn’t, to me it does.

 

There isn’t, we could try to up those numbers too

Considering it's a winter sport, biathlon has basically reached the peak of its powers. What other countries that have a potential but are missing would you add? There is only as much snow available

I'm more than satisfied Germany doesn't dominate luge anymore.

Chinese dominance in table tennis is still real though. Every God damn nation has a Chinese player competing under their flag Hell, Poland's best table tennis player is Chinese too!

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

This is the attitude that kills. Well, I can’t change the entire world at once, so why should I try? Sport is a moral place, almost religious in many aspects. Climate change directly effects this sport we all love, so we should what WE CAN to limit the impacts. 

I have to worry about my job and family so excuse me I'm not jumping on the "I can change the world" bandwagon   I kinda suspect you don't have to worry about a mortgage or any kids at your home yet, right?

7 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yes, of course. Sport should fuck the planet over! I forget about that Olympic moral.

World isn't build on morals. Sorry to bring you the bad news but the climate change crusaders ain't running OPEC out of business. Not in this century anyway

After the next global war which will be nuclear we will all start from the scratch anyway

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Many athletes doesn’t equal not worth improving. We could have more athletes, or more competitive athletes. There’s between 190-220 countries in the world depending upon your beliefs, 25-30 seems rather low. While 100 countries can’t reasonably compete, the number still seems low then.

It's a winter sport. Half of the world is automatically excluded from being competitive in it unless some single maniacs move to a country where there is snow present. You can't fix that no matter what bright ideas you have.

Looking at winter sports, biathlon has the most athletes and nations competing at a high level. And you're not satisfied with it and want to change that?

It just doesn't make any sense.

Please show me just one other winter sport where there are more athletes and nations competing at the highest level. Just one!

Just now, heywoodu said:

Did everyone fill in the survey though? Shame on everyone who's here and didn't.

I did. And I ignored all the climate change crap options. I don't care about that

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

That’s your opinion. Looking for improvements is a good thing. It’s how we cure disease, come up with new technology, etc. That’s what set you and me apart. I move forward towards the future, while you stand still. 
 

I think wind compensation points were a good compromise to a difficult issue.

Wind having an effect in outdoor sport? That's not an issue, It's called Mother Nature

Biathlon enters 100+ athletes in World Cup and even more in IBU Cup thru junior events. If someone wants to fix something that is not broken it's an automatic "NO" from me.

If we have like 60 athletes from 8 countries in biathlon World Cup then you might call for a change. But not when we have 100+ competitors from 20+ nations.

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m open to discussion. The discussion you want is “All change is bad, it should be fired into space.”, and I take issue with that. You also love to debate about anything but the actual point of the conversation. 

I said before, don't fix something when it's not broken. Biathlon is not broken by any means and you want to fix it! Why? Just look at the cross country where they made all the format changes and ended up with Norway and doping-tainted Russia as the two-headed monster. Geez, I bet that was the FIS idea all along?

I approve change when it's needed like building elevators along the ski jumping hills. That's a change this particular  sport needs.

Ski jumping was unhappy about the windy conditions so they introduced the compensation points. And now people bitch whether the wind reading was correct because we have people winning events when they're jumping 10 meters shorter than others.

4 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

If there’s a chance for improvement, take it!  Biathlon is doing fine, and being ahead of game could mean that it will be doing fine for a long time to come.

Cross country has seen all the changes aka improvements over the last 20 years, Tour de Ski, sprints, team sprints, 10k mass start and etc. and what? It's only Norway and Russia that matter with even Sweden barely competitive outside of the sprints. Meanwhile the old fashioned biathlon has more countries fighting for top spots with its outdated rules, formats and distances. Go and figure.

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

Exactly the sentiment I expected and why it'd be wise to just leave this out of here for now. In an incredibly complicated discussion, which transgenders in sports definitely form, someone doesn't agree and immediately the 'transphobic' flies around.

You do realize Olympian likes to start a political war in every thread and thinks he's right all the time?

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

You’re too old to see the needed change.

And who decides whether a change is needed? Some 20 year old American like you? Please, don't make me laugh...

Donald Trump would be proud of your logic in this thread. It's "MY WAY or the highway"

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I fucking knew you’d be transphobic the minute I posted that. Transgender athletes are going to be a thing. It will be a problem for biathlon one day.

No, it won't. It's a speciallist precision sport where being bigger and stronger actually doesn't matter.

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I don’t believe that it’s sake for the sake of change. Sports aren’t permanent, they change overtime. It’s okay for me to want to try new things to see if it improves a sport. 

Biathlon is doing just fine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

And I’ve stuck my crystal dick into the vagina of truth, but that doesn’t mean that I all-of-sudden know untested future outcomes.

You're too young to understand the world

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

So then how do we let transgender athletes compete?

It's simple. We don't

Biathlon is core to only few countries, mostly in Europe. Transgender athletes are not a problem esp. you have to shoot well enough to make a run.

It's a problem for global sports like athletics or swimming. But biathlon? Nah...

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

IBU seems to want an e-sports division...

 

Laser Rifles wouldn’t kill biathlon by the way, and we don’t know because we haven’t opened ourselves up to trying.

You don't have to change every single sport there is. Like I've said, change isn't always better and making a change for the sake of the change is just nonsensical IMO.

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

That would actually encourage smaller nations, so I have literally zero problem with that. Again, we’re still assuming a conclusion from something we haven’t tried.

My crystal ball has seen the future!

Then again, top nations wouldn't like to see smaller nations suddenly becoming players so they would oppose that IMO. It's happening in ski jumping already. We used to have 13-14 teams in the 00s, now they can barely enter 9 four-man teams for a Team Event. And Kazakhstan is just way off the pace all the time.

Russia, South Korea, Italy, USA and Switzerland don't bother to enter teams anymore.

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

What!? That’s such a Red Haering. That has nothing to do with what we were discussing.

Laser rifles are like hamburgers from grass IMO

Hell, maybe we just switch to e-sports and have Fourcade & co. play a biathlon game online

Just now, Agger said:

 

Wouldn't that mainly be bitching about VAR in the Premier League? 

That one's really about terrible implementation.

Trust me, there is bitching about VAR in Poland too