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Just now, heywoodu said:

Nice house?  

He knows more about Dominik's house tbh since he stayed there "a hundred of times"

Unless JTB dies on the last lap then Fourcade looks unlikely to win even with 10/10.

Polish Eurosport going away - Kuehn shooting but Tomasz Sikora talking about Dominik Windisch girlfriend's house

One miss for JTB.

Slovenians sure used some inside knowledge of the Podkoren. Robnik finishing ahead of Brignone is a surprise

Alice Robinson put the hammer down in the 2nd run!

Vlhova only 2nd!

8 minutes ago, Werloc said:

 

I put a lot of research towards Olsbu and I have her in gold for the mass start too, sooooo let's hope for the best 

 

Funnily enough, I did not place the Norwegian women relay on the podium at all aaaand I think I believed too much in Makarainen yet again, I never learn. 

Olsbu is actually a very safe pick for a medal. I ruled Tandrevold out. The biggest crapshoot are the French women IMO. I have Braisaz winning one medal. Let's see how that goes. I gave up on Makarainen here, no medals in my picks. And always a good bet for Oeberg in the individual

3 minutes ago, Werloc said:

 

I don't even know why I went for Eckhoff pursuit gold, honestly.

 

I didn't feel like she's gonna do that great here and I should have went with my gut feeling.

 

But it's still not as bad as my last years' "Johannes is not going to be on the podium in the sprint or pursuit, because he never performs too well in Ostersund "

I kinda envisioned Italians flopping more than Norwegians (as in no gold medals for the hosts)    I picked Olsbu to win the mass start so she better keeps this up for the second week

27 minutes ago, SalamAkhi said:

 

Meh, although I understand that we can't have high expectations for Colombia to switch to the ice, the current situation of France's speed skating is ludicrous 

A country that organized three Winter OG and have such a strong tradition of in-line skating can't settle for one athlete to emerge every now and then thanks to his own will and efforts ... 

This federation is a terrible mess ...

What are the three most popular countries for inline skating? Italy, Netherlands and Belgium? Given how Italy tends to produce some world class skaters (mainly in short track these days) I suppose France is really behind the eightball. I don't recall any world class skater on the long track in the XXI century and even your short track team is not as impressive as it could have been. 

3 minutes ago, Werloc said:

 

You know I'm an oracle when it comes to biathlon 

 

Although I'm fucked for women's pursuit most definitely.

Could have been worse. I wonder how many people predicted double Eckhoff gold in sprint & pursuit!

Nobody mentioned it but Milena Todorova finished 27th with only one miss. She scored a total of 2 points in her World Cup career to date (39th in Ostersund individual this season).

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

The fuck did @Werloc predict?  

I suspect he predicted gold for Olsbu and silver & bronze for "Any Other Athlete"

53 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Thing is, as we in Britain have shown in skeleton, nations that do not have a track can sometimes over-perform at the Olympics, because they are more used to learning unfamiliar tracks.

What helps British skeleton is the fact the country itself is basically non-existent in winter sports. Therefore it's easier to get some funding if you show just the smallest hint of potential. It's completely different in summer sports, even in core UK events like athletics or cycling where pretty good athletes are left out in the cold because they are "too old" at age 26 or a Top 6 result is considered "below par". Anyone from UK who gets a Top 10 in winter sport is probably considered a big talent though I read about some issues for the bobsleigh team last year?

Several of the big guns missing a ton of targets contributed to some second tier athletes overperforming.

Sadly that wasn't the case for Kamila Zuk who missed four in the prone before going clear in the stands. One of these days she will hit 10/10.

Btw, Tomasz Sikora said yesterday Olsbu had her rifle repaired before the WChamps since somtething was wrong with it. Guess whatever they did, it worked pretty well

I got one medallist right in the wrong position so I know I'm scoring 1 point

Our worst skier had the best shooting and our best skier had the worst shooting. Typical luck for

I wonder if Eckhoff pulls out of the pursuit tbh.

Pidrushna ahead of Herrmann!!! What a last lap!!!

BUT..

Charvatova steals the bronze from Pidrushna!!! What a championships for  

Hello, Charvatova??? 9/10!

Oeberg with three misses and that's the medal gone.

Herrmann goes 3rd with three misses!

Dunklee lost 10 secs in the last 500 meters... almost fell down on her face... and goes 2nd.

Dunklee is out of gas. Only 3 secs ahead with 500 meters left...

Dunklee 10/10!!! Olsbu might wanna check out now!

Well, it's looking pretty good for Olsbu unless maybe Hanna Oeberg goes 10/10.

Paulina Fialkova with two misses...