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8 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

She lost the Scottish Championships final. Firstly she was nominated to start in Worlds as the Team Jackson was planned to be sent to Krasnoyarsk for Universiade, but after the decision was announced it became quite a scandal and Scottish Federation changed it for it should be this way.

Well, I bet nobody expected Muirhead to lose to anyone in Scotland? Some competiton could be useful since she kinda keeps underperforming in the global events.

Eve Muirhead didn't even qualify here? And her replacements got trashed 10-4 by Japan

I just noticed Wierer also won the Canmore 2016 mass start on the very same day as Windisch

At 0:29 Dorothea's reaction to the statement: "The weather didn't look good for your style"

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I wouldnt count Canmore, probably a lot of top guys werent competing. Already completely forgot the results from the last olympics. When i learnt yesterday that Belarus won gold in the womens relay last year i couldnt believe it as well.

Actually there was some heavy wind that day in Canmore as well. Windisch won with 4 misses, Top 3 in World Cup: Fourcade 6 misses, Shipullin 6 misses, Schempp 8 misses   So one can say it was exactly that kind of day in Ostersund again. Big wind and Windisch goes 5/5 when JTB goes 0/5

Btw, That's what you get if you only follow German athletes. Other nations win in biathlon too including Belarus in relay which was pretty famous

3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Once in a century day for Italy. On the womens side Italy deserved a gold, although as a german fan i am sad that Herrmann threw away the gold. On the mens side this must be the most surprising top 3 ever. Windish should retire now, it cant get better than that for him. Did he ever make a podium before? Impressive that Fourcade is out of shape and even when Desthieux messes up, some other random french comes out of nowhere and wins a medal. Boe must be very disappointed, only 1 individual gold for him is far less than anyone expected ...

Mass start win in Canmore 2016 and then two podiums in two days in Oberhof 2017 Plus the Olympic bronze in sprint.

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Too little space left I think.

If Guigonnat was alone there I think he could have got him.

Guigonnat used Eberhard like a derna bike

Loginov can catch Guigonnat?

I have zero faith in Eder. He's dog slow at these champs.

So Italy waited 22 years for a gold medal and now they can win two in space of 2 hours?

I have no idea what Windisch's ski speed is though...

Pidruchnyi can win this?

Windisch 5/5!

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Mass start is only slightly better than pursuit.

 

Commentator said: "It's only reserved for the very best.". That's actually not something to be proud of...

It's much better than pursuit which is inflated due to sprint results

Epic meltdown on the third shoot. Garanichev 5/5 and everyone else with at least two misses. Very much Wierer-like case.

Top 10 for Esteve Altimiras

54 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

Patrick and Mike on english ES mentioned conspiracy theory about that.

 

 

I've had enough of their bias at these Champs and turned back to Polish commentary

Btw, does anything think Wierer faked the illness yesterday to boost her chances for the mass start? And she clawed all the deficit back to Vittozzi in the standings. Do we have another Vitkova vs Koukalova catfight in the making now?

It was odd how Hirscher completely fell off in Bansko/Kranjska Gora/Soldeu. Maybe he begins to feel his age a little but I'd be shocked if he retires now. He's still won the overall by a solid margin albeit not as big as in years past.

This is the 7th gold medal for in World Champs history (all previous 6 by men) and only the third individual:

1990 Men's Relay

1991 Team Event

1993 Men's Relay

1993 Andreas Zingerle (individual)

1994 Team Event

1997 Wilfried Pallhuber (sprint)

This is the first WC gold medal for in women's events ever!

She's done it!!! 

400m and 7 secs.!

Still 10 secs. ahead! C'mon, Doro!

Yurlova can catch Wierer... but I hope she doesn't! Hell, maybe Herrmann has a bigger chance to catch Yurlova!

How close was that for Yurlova?

Herrmann blows the gold  chance away too!

Fuck! Door wide open for Yurlova!