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Polish Biathlon Fed twitter keeps up the standards as usual

The random Belarussian that got TV time finished dead last

Meanwhile three in the points! Must be a team record for them?

Tomingas PB in 14th, Talihaerm 29th & Oja 37th both their second best results on World Cup to date!

At age 32  Elizabeth Hoegberg gets her second ever Top 10 finish in 9th (was 8th in Ostersund individual in 2014).

Zuk holds off Herrmann so 6th it is!

1 minute ago, Kirkpatrick said:

 

Men's skiing is vastly superior. Quality wise, competition wise, entertainment wise.

Speed events, yes but not the technical ones.

Colombo 28th in the end. Lost a lot of time on the last lap. Would have been around 15th with 10/10. Herrmann will still pass her.

Random Belarussian 5/10 on TV

1 minute ago, Gigs said:

No way he is gonna continue that long though. He was already close to quitting last year and if I had to bet I'd actually put my money on him retiring after this season

What I'd really like was him giving it a proper go at super-gs but that's not gonna happen unfortunately.

He doesn't need SG to win the overall anymore. He will stay around if only to beat Stenmark's record. He's what, 18 wins behind? Though Shiffrin will probably eclipse them both.

Colombo probably blows away a Top 10 finish with that last miss...

Tuuli Tomingas will probably get a PB too (previous 31st in Ruhpolding sprint this season). Taihaerm on course for some points too.

There are some Polish journalists who are fans of the Estonian team

Zuk 6th at the finish now

It's safe to say nobody expected that result

3 minutes ago, SalamAkhi said:

Aymonier 8/10 only

You should be amazed about Zuk though 

Some experts over here tried to downplay her struggles like "she still has time" which was a joke considering how Davidova moved forward over the last 12 months.

Kamila Zuk 10/10! That's shocking! Could be a new PB here (33rd in Oslo pursuit last season).

Makarainen 60 secs. faster than Vittozzi and Wierer over 20 secs. faster than Vittozzi as well!

Aymonier 9/10 which is one of her best sprints for a while.

Olsbu beats Kaisa by 11,5 secs. This could be the win.

Olsbu should be able to hold off Makarainen? Kais way faster than even Kuzmina!

Vittozzi's charge at Wierer has stopped today.

39 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Because Hirscher is winning super g/downhill races? Also Hirscher will be gone soon while Shiffrin will dominate for many more years.

Shiffrin won 6 out of 7 slaloms, Hirscher won 4 out of 7. Shiffrin/Vlhova went 1-2 in 6 out of 7 races, theres in no way anyone can not call women's slalom the most boring discipline of all (apart from men's/women's alpine combined).

Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%.

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Gladly there are other athletes, although apparently you only seem to care about those two. Have you ever heard of something like "Men's alpine skiing"?

I care about others too. Men's alpine skiing aka the Marcel Hirscher one man show? Really? That's supposed to be better than Shiffrin/Vlhova?

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Yeah sure, Shiffrin is better than her in all disciplines, so i am sure this will become an interesting battle ...

If you dislike Shiffrin's dominance and Vlhova as a person there's nothing there for you in alpine skiing to follow

Well, let's hope Shiffrin vs Vlhova becomes what Fenninger vs Gut never was beyond a couple of seasons.

4 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Today we might finally see a decent result for Germany, but Rebensburg has to secure the first place for that.

Let's hope that Vlhova won't win a medal here.

 

Epic jinx

And Rebensburg blows the gold away three gates from home...

Vlhova leads. Thos could be tough for Rebensburg!

The lift has failed? What more can go wrong at these champs?

Della Mea would have a higher bib than Marsaglia though? Now FM sits 29th after 1st run so can make some gains in the 2nd run. Plus slalom is Della Mea's better event?

3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

The italians should have chosen Lara Della Mea, instead of Marsaglia. She was great in the team event. 

That was probably the deal though, Della Mea takes TE and Marsaglia GS.

The second run will be curious given the course shape. Any of the Top 4 can still win gold tbh. Worley would need a huge charge in 5th.