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She could have been first, but now she's just somebody that we used to know...

You can't spell standing shooting without 'fun' (don't question my methods)

Like, if I'm going to be able to see only two races out of 6 this week, I want to be able to see Herrmann running as the 4th leg.

To make the race more exciting for us viewers.

Is this a World Cup race or a blooper reel?

This is the race to forget and a race to remember for Franziska Hildebrand

Okay, thank you for the answer I just suddenly remembered that she existed today when they showed the German relay on screen

My brain just had a sudden thought, so now I must ask. What happened to Maren Hammerschmidt this season? Is she out with an injury?

Anyways, forgot to mention throughout my many troubles, Diana Rasimovičiūtė has oficially retired. One of the most successful Lithuanian winter athletes and the most successful when it comes to Biathlon. She was literally the face of our biathlon for a good decade at least and hats off to her, because she's the reason we have a team today. It's a bit disappointing knowing how much potential she had, Makarainen, Domracheva, Ekholm, Berger were behind her in ski speed at times, but I guess that's just shows how structure & funding are majorly important in a sport such as this.

Yeah, wanted to comment on it myself, without Dahlmeier, they really look non-existant sometimes. Hildebrand looks like she lost the spark, promising Preuss & Hinz are promising for how many seasons already?

No, she just had a podium at Nove Mesto pursuit.

Yeah, played this one as well

I was wondering, has anyone else started playing mini-games with the Totallympics lights? For example, I always go for the greens now and only explode them when they light up. Yes, I have no life, sometimes....

Honestly, if not for Bjorndalen (I'm nearly certain the decision was influenced by him), Domracheva could have won a lot of crystal globes in the next few years. She was in amazing form last year and honestly saw her as the big favourite for 18-19 before she announced retirement.

Dislike. Could have used more couples Honestly, really a missed opportunity to have Kuzmina/Shipulin, what a send off would that be for Shipulin.

The only way I would ever agree to boot previous hosts out of the race in favour of first time hosts, is if there are 3 or 4 first time host bids in the running, because I want to avoid the prospect of a two horse race. Although, it can also be a problem regarding how many first time hosts are passionate to host the event, because if there is a lot of them, adding the fact that some countries will not decline hosting rights after a win, then those previous hosts might have to wait till 2021 to ever even having a chance again, if they're not close to winning a competition.

Beautiful, loved it

Kaisa didn't pull a Fourcade

I'm loving this race so far

Happy to see Tarjei Boe on the podium I somehow always prefered him of the two brothers. Also, happy to see Sweden closing the gap yet again and becoming a fierce biathlon nation on both the men's and women's side.

cried Simon Schempp

For some lucky athletes like Nadine Horchler it's a competition of life.

Pursuit is also an important experience, plus can't really deny it would be a great one with so many athletes close. But I know where you're coming from when hating the pursuit format

She just felt like cross-country skiing today.

Sadly, we can't have individual races in every stage