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That could be interesting, but expensive for some nations to only participate in that event.

The Super Sprint really is a quick and can be an very exciting event. I just realized why no US skiers were there. The US Rollerski Championships just finished. I do wonder of there is such a big discussion about the wheel techs as there is about the ski wax?

Finally results from the Oceanic Cup and Australian Championships. Super sprint results are here - Jill missed only one shot. Short individual results are here - Cameron Morton won for he Open men with Colebourn as the women's champ. Sprint results are here - Same results as the Short Individual, but different distances

It is good to see a variety of athletes from various nations who have qualified as of right now, there are 10 for the Jr men, and 10 for the Jr Women including 4 Koreans and 2 Chinese.

Start lists are finally up for the Summer Championships Men's - 56 total for the Super Sprint Women's - 36 total for the Super Sprint Junior women - 52 total Junior men - 59 total Countries represented Kazakhstan Hungary Ukraine Poland Lithuania Belarus Denmark Russia Serbia Turkey Czech Republic Moldova Belgium Slovakia Mongolia Estonia Great Britain Latvia Korea Romania Greece China Switzerland

1st Baltic Masters Biathlon Championship to take place in September. Rollerski will be the name of the game with this one.

As another aside - watch two Koala fight. And now back to biathlon.

I loved how polite she was when she got up, no rush to cut off the others.

Two clips from the Super Sprint - Check out the shorts!

Jillian Colebourn wins the Oceania Cup Super Sprint. Not many details to be found. Some good pictures of the Short Individual, but no results yet. Love the names. The hat is really nice! It is also neat to see the very different trees at a Biathlon venue. Looks like it has 15 lanes.

Seems like they are doing a good job of reusing the venues. There is an article here.

Start Lists for Australian Biathlon Championships are out. Short Individual is here. Sprint is here. Still no results for the Oceania Cup. It is 98 degrees outside here, and I am really wishing for snow right about now!

Found two more who will be there for Belarus. Dinara Alimbekova Irina Krivko

These are confirmed to be there - Timofey Lapshin Anna Frolina Andrejs Rastorgujevs Ekaterina Glazyrina Larisa Kuklina Krasimir Anev Valj and Vita Semerenko Sergey Semenov

About two weeks away from the start. Short article here with some basic stats, but it does say that there will be athletes from 27 countries including Greece, Turkey and Mongolia. Should be good. Schedule: 23 AUG 2019 03:40 Junior Men Super Sprint Qualification 23 AUG 2019 04:15 Junior Women Super Sprint Qualification 23 AUG 2019 06:00 Men Super Sprint Qualification 23 AUG 2019 06:35 Women Super Sprint Qualification 23 AUG 2019 08:10 Junior Men Super Sprint Final 23 AUG 2019 08:40 Junior Women Super Sprint Final 23 AUG 2019 10:10 Men Super Sprint Final 23 AUG 2019 10:40 Women Super Sprint Final 24 AUG 2019 03:45 Junior Men 7.5 km Sprint Competition 24 AUG 2019 06:15 Junior Women 6 km Sprint Competition 24 AUG 2019 09:00 Men 7.5 km Sprint Competition 24 AUG 2019 11:00 Women 6 km Sprint Competition 25 AUG 2019 04:15 Junior Men 10 km Pursuit Competition 25 AUG 2019 06:15 Junior Women 7.5 km Pursuit Competition 25 AUG 2019 08:45 Men 10 km Pursuit Competition 25 AUG 2019 10:30 Women 7.5 km Pursuit Competition

Some more news and notes New Nordic/Biathlon center in Maine? Recently deceased Junior Roy Varney might get a Nordic Center on his family farm. Here is more about the plan.

Thanks for those results. Interesting who from the US was there. Jake Ellington - IBU Cup Experience Evertt Darrow - Junior Travis Cooper - US Men's B Team Cody Johnson - NORAM Siena Ellington - NORAM Barb Blanke - NORAM Sam Miller ????? Travis Cooper is on the US Men's B Team I wonder where the funding came from for the trip?

Nice little add here for the Australian Biathlon Championship. The Biathlon center is located almost directly between Melbourne and Canberra. Here is the upcoming schedule - Oceania Cup 14-18 August (concurrently on 17/18 August with the Australian Biathlon Championships )Australian Biathlon Championships 17/18 August Looks like this is the schedule 15 August - Super Sprint (Oceania Cup) 17 August - Short Individual (Oceania Cup and Australian Championships) 18 August - Sprint (Oceania Cup and Australian Championships) To make us all sad here were the conditions earlier this week - Pretty impressive crowd for the opening of a new rollerski track in Belarus. Any new information about the South American Championships?

Eurosport signed a deal with Blink to broadcast the biathlon portion next summer. See the commentary here.

News and notes: Hope he does well so we will see NZ soon on the IBU Cup! Niklas Carlsson, former chief executive of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Åre 2019, to be its new permanent secretary general for IBU.

Victorian Biathlon Championships Results Short individual results Sprint results

The races are up on Youtube. For the 2nd race in a row, Fourcade was beaten on the last lap. Not sure if we should read anything into it.

I honestly wonder if this thread is enough of involvement for the IBU? I doubt it. Also Olympian1010, the Junior/Youth Worlds will be in Soldier Hollow in 2022 IIRC. So less than 30 years from now

I searched Biathlon Blink 2019 on Youtube and go the Men's and Women's Mass Starts as well as the Shooting Duels. Nothing from today's events yet. My 13 year old could join the Fan Club as well. That makes us about 5 people short.

Some results from the 1st day of Biathlon at the Blink Women's elite mass start here - pretty impressive group of athletes. 1 ÖBERG Hanna 2+1+0+0 3 13:09.3 0.0 2 BRORSSON Mona 1+0+0+1 2 13:16.7 +7.4 3 RØISELAND Marte 1+2+1+0 4 13:17.0 +7.7 \ 4 ECKHOFF Tiril 2+0+2+0 4 13:17.4 +8.1 5 VITTOZZI Lisa 4+2+0+0 6 13:17.6 +8.3 Men's elite mass start here - once again, a nice list of athletes, and Boe wins again. 1 BØ Johannes Thingnes 1+0+0+1 2 17:11.4 0.0 2 FOURCADE Martin 1+2+0+0 3 17:12.8 +1.4 3 JAQUELIN Emilien 1+0+1+1 3 17:17.0 +5.6 4 DESTHIEUX Simon 1+2+2+0 5 17:22.9 +11.5 5 BAKKEN Sivert Guttorm IL 0+1+2+0 3 17:29.3 +17.9 Looks like it would have been a really close finish! A few other results to peruse. Here are the results from what they call the "Shooting Duels" Women here - won by Dorothy Wierer Men here - won by Tarjei Boe who barely defeated Fourcade! Women's Qualification for the Mass Start Men's Qualification for the Mass Start Supersprint tomorrow.