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Loginov holds on for silver...

Pidruchnyi can pass QFM for a medal? Nope... he missed out by 0,3 secs. This slower guy on the finish straight made him ski a couple of meters extra?

Desthieux 10/10 which is good for my prediction results

Fillon-Mallet 10/10 and this could be a medal for him.

Doherty 10/10. @RobtheAggie will be happy about it

Nawrath 9/10 and avoids a huge upset with that one miss most likely...

He probably won't make it onto the podium anyway

I wonder if the snow fall will make things worse for the latter numbers? JTB #28 so could just avoid the worst.

Polish ES commentators Tomasz Jaronski (age 64) & Krzysztof Wyrzykowski (age 74) have grown over the years to become my favorites. They do cycling in the spring/summer & biathlon in the winter. It's down to the fact biathlon is my 2nd favorite winter sport after alping skiing but they're always in the mood for one-liners or some ancient stories nobody has heard of or cares about (like the one during mixed relay about ordering coffee in Italian while on trip to Sud Tirol). Plus they always have something to say about the physical shape of women biathletes. The new trend over the past 2/3 years is Dorothea Wierer's eye make-up. And they agreed Ann-Kathrin Flatland was the best looking girl on IBU tour ever They're also pretty high on Wierer (duh), Soukalova (retired) & Eva Puskarcikova Miriam Goessner was also in the mill especially after her Playboy shoot Also whenever someone misses 3 shots or more she goes by "poor girl" no matter the name or country.

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Looks like the experts will have to learn a new name?

There's a pretty long way from the standing places to the penalty loop in Ostersund so I guess the IBU judges had enough time to react?

I just found out that Lisa-Therese Hauser was busted for shooting at the wrong targets in the stand so had to do 5 penalty laps after 10/10 shoot She finished 70th.

It was still Holdener's best slalom this season "only" 0,85 back from the winner. Shiffrin breaks Vreni Schneider's single-season win record with her 15th. Two more seasons like that and Stenmark will be gone too. Shiffrin turns 24(!) on Wednesday. I feel old...

Do Bugaria have any meaningful skaters since Radanova retired?

I didn't watch the first SF but they said Elise Christie was DQ too? So even with all the rules changes that's one person that always gets DQ in the big events

There are way too many DQs in short track compared to like 5-6 years ago. And it's hard to watch when the video review lasts longer than the race itself. That's why I don't follow this event on live TV. I watched two 1500 SFs, saw the Schulting BS and I turned it off.

Would she even make the German team though? It's not unusual that lower ranked athletes from a powerhouse country switch their nationality just to compete at the highest level. Happens all the time to Americans in basketball & Chinese in table tennis.

Andreas Stjernen will retire after the Raw Air event.

Johaug & Sundby got banned for their stupidity. Tora Berger didn't dominate at 23 either. If Tandrevold becomes the best shooter of the team she can only improve her skiing. After all, these Norwegians are always pretty good on skis. Maybe only Solemdal of the current team is weaker but everyone else is top notch and Tandrevold will get there as well IMO. When Davidova drops the junior breathing technique she will become a major force as well.

Yeah, France could be even bigger losers than Italy at these champs Was it last season that Braisaz said she wants to be the BEST biathlete in the field? She's gone completely off the boil over the last 12 months.

There's no anti-Norwegian doping fight in cross country though. They legalised Symbicort as the TRUE magic potion after Norway got their asses spanked in Liberec 2009. All the beef is anti-Russian. In biathlon their issue has been about shooting, if Tandrevold doesn't randomly blow 3-4 misses like Eckhoff & Olsbu then she could dominate like peak Tora Berger. Look at the men's side, once JTB started to hit 9/10 - 19/20 and not 7/10 - 15/20 he's unstoppable. Frode Andresen & Lars Berger would have seriosly eaten into Ole Einar's dominance if only they for once sorted out their shooting.

Junior breathing technique. She will have to learn to shoot with a single breath before each shot. Herrmann 2 misses in the stands and she's gone...

Well, Vlhova will have to start doing Super Gs and Downhills if she dreams of the overall. She's got the body type to glide down Lake Louise

Nope, the ones coming with later numbers steal it IMO