Monzanator

More wrecking. Logano won't win it.

Logano caused the Big One.

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! 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?

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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"

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

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

You're too young to understand the world

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...

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.

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.

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

Trust me, there is bitching about VAR in Poland too

Athletes who are like #4 or #5 or any team would disagree. If you only want two best per nation for a mixed relay then it hurts the depth of the roster. If you're #5 then you have no shot of making the team. Several lesser athletes have thrived in the relays which helped their status for individual races (Peter Sendel or someone like that).

For me individual is the most interesting race though. No counting the chickens like i.e. Eckhoff or Herrmann can afford to miss twice and still win by 30 secs.

And in Japan they make hamburgers from grass. You really want to eat grass and call it ham?

The external challenge is what makes the whole sport exciting though! You can't have it all perfect all the time. Hell, New Orleans Saints must play in Green Bay outdoors in the snow and nobody says "it's unfair"

Either you're IN or you're OUT though? What about alpine skiing and custom made skis for top stars? It's a tech race everywhere! In ski jumping it's down to material for the suits and those damn boots again this season. Let's don't fool ourselves everyone has an equal chance because it's not the case.

VAR was supposed to fix the bitching about referee mistakes in football and look, there is more bitching about VAR now. The idea of "fixing" or "improving" something looks good on paper but then reality kicks in. The same will happen if biathlon even thinks of laser rifles. And will the athletes use their personal rifle all the time like today? Obviously not IMO.