RobtheAggie

Kamila Żuk suffered a fall in training and will be out several weeks with what looks like a cracked tibia.
 
 

Live biathlon tonight & tomorrow!  19:40  time.  Deffo not geo-blocked, was watching the cross country earlier.
 
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/skishow-paa-sommerfoere/2023/MSPO40320523/avspiller

One week to the Blink Festival!
 
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/skishow-paa-sommerfoere/2023/MSPO40320123/avspiller

City Biathlon Wiesbaden
 
Men:
Tarjei Boe 
Benedikt Doll 
Roman Rees 
Dmytro Pidruchnyi 
Sturla Holm Lægreid 
Martin Ponsiluoma 
Niklas Hartweg 
Fabien Claude 
Florent Claude 
 
Women:
Dorothea Wierer 
Vanessa Voigt 
Hanna Oeberg 
Julia Simon 
Anna Weidel 
Yuliia Dzhima 
Anna Gandler 
Hanna Kebinger 
Aita Gasparin 
 
Course d’adieu
Denise Herrmann-Wick 
Vanessa Hinz 
Marte Olsbu Roeiseland 
Karolin Horchler 
Maren Hammerschmidt 
Tiril Eckhoff 
 
Sunday 13 August
12h15 : course de qualification féminine
12h40 : course de qualification masculine
13h10 : course d’adieu
13h45 : défi par équipes juniors
14h30 : finale féminine (7×1,4 km, 6 tirs)
15h30 : finale masculine (7×1,4 km, 6 tirs)
16h30 : remise des prix
 
It will be good to see Eckhoff one more time.

City Biathlon Wiesbaden
 
Men:
Tarjei Boe 
Benedikt Doll 
Roman Rees 
Dmytro Pidruchnyi 
Sturla Holm Lægreid 
Martin Ponsiluoma 
Niklas Hartweg 
Fabien Claude 
Florent Claude 
 
Women:
Dorothea Wierer 
Vanessa Voigt 
Hanna Oeberg 
Julia Simon 
Anna Weidel 
Yuliia Dzhima 
Anna Gandler 
Hanna Kebinger 
Aita Gasparin 
 
Course d’adieu
Denise Herrmann-Wick 
Vanessa Hinz 
Marte Olsbu Roeiseland 
Karolin Horchler 
Maren Hammerschmidt 
Tiril Eckhoff 
 
Sunday 13 August
12h15 : course de qualification féminine
12h40 : course de qualification masculine
13h10 : course d’adieu
13h45 : défi par équipes juniors
14h30 : finale féminine (7×1,4 km, 6 tirs)
15h30 : finale masculine (7×1,4 km, 6 tirs)
16h30 : remise des prix
 
It will be good to see Eckhoff one more time.

City Biathlon Wiesbaden
 
Men:
Tarjei Boe 
Benedikt Doll 
Roman Rees 
Dmytro Pidruchnyi 
Sturla Holm Lægreid 
Martin Ponsiluoma 
Niklas Hartweg 
Fabien Claude 
Florent Claude 
 
Women:
Dorothea Wierer 
Vanessa Voigt 
Hanna Oeberg 
Julia Simon 
Anna Weidel 
Yuliia Dzhima 
Anna Gandler 
Hanna Kebinger 
Aita Gasparin 
 
Course d’adieu
Denise Herrmann-Wick 
Vanessa Hinz 
Marte Olsbu Roeiseland 
Karolin Horchler 
Maren Hammerschmidt 
Tiril Eckhoff 
 
Sunday 13 August
12h15 : course de qualification féminine
12h40 : course de qualification masculine
13h10 : course d’adieu
13h45 : défi par équipes juniors
14h30 : finale féminine (7×1,4 km, 6 tirs)
15h30 : finale masculine (7×1,4 km, 6 tirs)
16h30 : remise des prix
 
It will be good to see Eckhoff one more time.

Julia Simon  is facing allegations of credit card fraud. Link: https://www.lequipe.fr/Biathlon/Article/Julia-simon-visee-par-deux-plaintes-pour-fraude-a-la-carte-bancaire-chez-les-bleues/1406488

or maybe 2 in case there will be twins

Just think, 20 years from now, a great young biathlete on tour!

Paja is pregnant Great news. Not so much for the dying biathlon though
 
Congrats Paja, you sure will be an amazing mom
 
 

Well, there will be pressure to perform for Wright now. The minor nation underdog story goes away with him switching to United States.

Almost official ...
 

Confident this will be live & FTA on NRK.

Blink schedule is out.
 
August 2, Wednesday:  BLINK Lysebotn Up, 7.5km uphill race, start in Lysefjorden
11:30: 1km and 2km girls and boys
12:15: 7.5km skating women senior, women junior
14:00: 7.5km double poling women and men senior
15:30: 7.5km skating men senior, men junior
 
August 3, Thursday:  BLINK Classics at Ålgård
18:45: Start BLINK Classics
20:45: Estimated finish BLINK Classics
 
August 4, Friday: BLINK in Sandnes Sentrum 
7:30 – 14:20: Cross-country skiing and biathlon: competitions for age groups and juniors 
12:00-21:00: OBOS Kid Camp
14:30-15:15: Biathlon: Shooting elite
15:30-15:50: Cross-country skiing: Prologue women and men
15:55-16:50: Biathlon: Shooting duel women and men
17:10-18:25: Biathlon: Super sprint qualification elite women and men
18:25-18:55: Cross-country skiing: 10km mass start women
18:55-19:45: Biathlon: Super sprint final women and men
19:45-20: 25: Cross-country skiing: 15km mass start men
20:45: Prize-giving ceremony
 
August 5, Saturday: BLINK in Sandnes Sentrum 
7:40-14:20: Cross-country skiing and biathlon: competitions for age groups and juniors
12:00-21:00: OBOS Kid Camp
14:30-15:15: Biathlon: Shooting elite
15:20-15:40: Cross-country skiing: Prologue women and men
15:45-17:37: Biathlon: Quarter-finals start women and men
17:44-19:20: Cross-country skiing: Sprint quarter-finals and semifinals women and men
19:22-20:08: Biathlon: Semi-finals mass start women and men
20:10-20:23: Cross-country skiing: Finals sprint women and men
20:25-21:05: Biathlon: finals mass start women and men
21:25: Prize-giving ceremony 

Some sad news, the presumed body of Eyvind Sporaland was discovered by a hiker near Lillehammer.  

Women
National Team
BRAISAZ-BOUCHET Justine – Douane / Club des Sports des Saisies (Savoie) – (A)
CHAUVEAU Sophie – Armée de Champions / Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) – (A)
CHEVALIER Chloé – Armée de Champions / CO des 7 Laux Grésivaudan (Dauphiné) – (A)
COLOMBO Caroline – Ski Club Mouthe (Massif Jurassien) – (A)
JEANMONNOT Lou – Armée de Champions / Olympic Mont d’Or (Massif Jurassien) – (A)
SIMON Julia – Douane / Club des Sports des Saisies (Savoie) – (A)
BOTET Paula – Armée de Champions / La Bressaude Section Ski (Massif des Vosges) – (B)
GUIGONNAT Gilonne – Ski Club Villard sur Boëge (Mont Blanc) – (B)
 
IBU-Cup Team
BENED Camille – Ski Club Chablais Nordic (Mont Blanc) – (B)
BENED Chloé – Ski Club Chablais Nordic (Mont Blanc) – (B)
BERTRAND Fany – Club des Sports de Méribel (Savoie) – (B)
BONDOUX Anaëlle – GUC Grenoble Ski (Dauphiné) – (B)
COUPE Camille – Club des Sports La Féclaz (Savoie) – (B)
JEANNIER Léonie – Ski Club Les Verrières – La Cluse (Massif Jurassien) – (B)
MICHELON Océane – Bauges Ski Nordique (Savoie) – (B)
RICHARD Jeanne – Les Gets Ski Compétition (Mont Blanc) – (B)
 
Men
National Team
CLAUDE Fabien – Armée de Champions / Basse sur Le Rupt Ski Nordique (Massif des Vosges) – (A)
FILLON MAILLET Quentin – Douane / Ski Club du Grandvaux (Massif Jurassien) – (A)
GUIGONNAT Antonin – Armée de Champions / Ski Club Morzine Avoriaz (Mont Blanc) – (A)
JACQUELIN Émilien – Douane / CS Nordique Villard de Lans (Dauphiné) – (A)
PERROT Éric – Armée de Champions / Ski Club Peisey-Vallandry (Savoie) – (A)
CLAUDE Émilien – Armée de Champions / Basse sur Le Rupt Ski Nordique (Massif des Vosges) – (B)
LOMBARDOT Oscar – Entente Sportive Saugette (Massif Jurassien) – (B)
 
IBU-Cup Team
BROUTIER Rémi – Bauges Ski Nordique (Savoie) – (B)
FONTAINE Paul – Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) – (B)
GENY Edgar – Ski Club Sallanches Tête Noire (Mont Blanc) – (B)
GUIRAUD POILLOT Théo – Ski Club Villard sur Boëge (Mont Blanc) – (B)
JEFFERIES Jacques – Les Gets Ski Compétition (Mont Blanc) – (B)
LEJEUNE Valentin – Basse sur Le Rupt Ski Nordique (Massif des Vosges) – (B)
MAHON Sébastien – Entente Sportive Saugette (Massif Jurassien) – (B)
MEUNIER Ambroise – Club des Sports La Féclaz (Savoie) – (B)
THIEVENT Lou – Ski Nordique Chartreuse (Dauphiné) – (B)

Former IBU president Besseberg under investigation of corruption.
 
"the 77-year-old Besseberg is accused of having received several expensive watches.He also allegedly used prostitutes paid for by others, as well as accepted free hunting trips abroad. Russian biathlon officials will have been among those who helped fund the gifts, according to Økokrim."
 
https://www.reuters.com/sports/former-president-international-biathlon-union-indicted-corruption-charges-2023-04-17/

SIlver in Norwegian (not world) junior championship 2021 according to norwegian media

I could not find anything more about him either.  A sad story, but maybe not really related to biathlon.

Bjontegaard has retired.

Interesting comparison between Lampic and Herrmann:
Lampic finished 48th in the standings this season with 91 points in 7 races (13 points/race). Herrmann also finished 48th in her first world cup season (2016/2017, 115 points in 9 races -> 12.8 points/race). Lampic twice finished 5th in the sprint this season. Herrmann had an 18th place as her best result in her first world cup season. Lampic was roughly half a year younger than Herrmann was during her first season. In her second season Herrmann finished 12th in the world cup standings and had her first two world cup wins.

Final World Cup standings for women:
 
1. Simon 1093
2. Wierer 911
3. Vittozzi 882
4. Herrmann-Wick 874
5. E. Oeberg 764
6. Tandrevold 731
7. H. Oeberg 710
8. Chevalier-Bouchet 670
9. Davidova 668
10. Hauser 604
...
51. Żuk 82
64. Jakieła 36
77. Mąka 15
 

And let's not forget Mari Eder (Laukkanen) also bidding farewell!
 
That finish area celebration almost got me in tears, why would you do that to me  Definitely one of the most emotional moments in biathlon since I started watching it.

No 4: Tiril Eckhoff 

And the third one is Chevalier-Bouchet