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[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Women's 15km Skiathlon Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski x Marit Bjoergen x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla x Stina Nilsson Nathalie von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Normal Hill Individual Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Stefan Kraft Markus Eisnbichler Richard Freitag x Andreas Wellinger Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Johan Andre Forfang x Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 30km Skiathlon Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat x Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Normal Hill Individual Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Chiara Holzl Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Katharina Althaus x Juliane Seyfarth x Carina Vogt x Any Athlete from Italy Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi Maren Lundby Any Athlete from Slovenia Irina Avvakumova Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Classic Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Ristomatti Hakola Iivo Niskanen Any Athlete from France Federico Pellegrino x Eirik Brandsdal Pal Golberg Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Teodor Peterson Oskar Svensson Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete x Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Classic Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Krista Parmakoski Maiken Caspersen Falla Kathrine Rolsted Harsem Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg x Heidi Weng Anna Dyvik Hanna Falk Stina Nilsson x Laurien van der Graaff Sadie Bjornsen Sophie Caldwell Jessica Diggins x Natalia Nepryaeva Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Normal Hill+10km Day 5 February 14th, 2018 Wilhelm Denifl Luka Klapfer Ilka Herola Eero Hirvonen Francois Braud Maxime Laheurte x Eric Frenzel x Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek x Alessandro Pittin Akito Watabe Espen Andersen Jarl Magnus Riiber Jan Schmid Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Freestyle Day 6 February 15th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Riitta-Liisa Roponen Marit Bjoergen Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg x Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng x Charlotte Kalla x Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins Anastasia Sedova Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Freestyle Day 7 February 16th, 2018 Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Maurice Manificat Andrew Musgrave Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Johaness Hoesflot Klaebo x Simen Hegstad Krueger Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Calle Halfvarsson x Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay Day 8 February 17th, 2018 Finland x Germany Italy Norway x Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Large Hill Individual Day 8 February 17th, 2018 Stefan Kraft Markus Eisnbichler x Richard Freitag x Andreas Wellinger Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Johan Andre Forfang Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay Day 9 February 18th, 2018 Finland x France Germany Italy Kazakhstan Norway x Sweden x Switzerland Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Day 10 February 19th, 2018 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland x Slovenia United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Large Hill+10km Day 10 February 19th, 2018 Wilhelm Denifl Luka Klapfer Ilka Herola Eero Hirvonen Francois Braud Maxime Laheurte x Eric Frenzel x Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe Espen Andersen Jorgen Graabak x Jan Schmid Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Day 11 February 21st, 2018 Finland x Germany Italy Norway x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Day 11 February 21st, 2018 Canada Estonia Finland France Germany Italy x Norway x Poland Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team (Large Hill + 4x5km Relay) Day 12 February 22nd, 2018 Austria Finland France x Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Classic Day 13 February 24th, 2018 Sergei Dolidovich Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Johaness Hoesflot Klaebo Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Calle Halfvarsson x Dario Cologna Alexander Bessmertnykh Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete x Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Classic Day 14 February 25th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Masako Ishida Marit Bjoergen x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen x Heidi Weng x Justyna Kowalczyk Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Nathalie von Siebenthal Any Athlete from United States Anastasia Sedova Any Other Athlete [/hide]

[hide] Women's Tournament Preliminary Round February 10th - February 15th, 2018 8 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from Group A will qualify for the Semifinals, the 3rd and 4th Nations from Group A and 1st and 2nd Nations from Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 3rd and 4th Nations from Group B will qualify for the 5th-8th Places Semifinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 11th 2018, h. 16:40 Finland 1 United States February 11th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 2 Olympic Athletes form Russia February 13th 2018, h. 16:40 Canada 1 Finland February 13th 2018, h. 21:10 United States 3 Olympic Athletes from Russia February 15th 2018, h. 12:10 United States 1 Canada February 15th 2018, h. 16:40 Olympic Athletes from Russia 2 Finland Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 10th 2018, h. 16:40 Japan 2 Sweden February 10th 2018, h. 21:10 Switzerland 2 South Korea February 12th 2018, h. 16:40 Sweden 4 South Korea February 12th 2018, h. 21:10 Switzerland 1 Japan February 14th 2018, h. 12:10 Sweden 2 Switzerland February 14th 2018, h. 16:40 South Korea 3 Japan Men's Tournament Preliminary Round February 14th - February 18th, 2018 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nations from each Group and the best 2nd ranked Nation between all Groups will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the other Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 15th 2018, h. 21:10 Czech Republic 3 South Korea February 15th 2018, h. 21:10 Switzerland 2 Canada February 17th 2018, h. 12:10 Canada 2 Czech Republic February 17th 2018, h. 16:40 South Korea 3 Switzerland February 18th 2018, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 1 Switzerland February 18th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 5 South Korea Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 14th 2018, h. 21:10 Slovakia 3 Olympic Athletes from Russia February 14th 2018, h. 21:10 United States 3 Slovenia February 16th 2018, h. 12:10 United States 1 Slovakia February 16th 2018, h. 16:40 Olympic Athletes from Russia 2 Slovenia February 17th 2018, h. 21:10 Olympic Athletes from Russia 1 United States February 17th 2018, h. 21:10 Slovenia 1 Slovakia Group C Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 15th 2018, h. 12:10 Finland 3 Germany February 15th 2018, h. 16:40 Norway 2 Sweden February 16th 2018, h. 21:10 Finland 2 Norway February 16th 2018, h. 21:10 Sweden 3 Germany February 18th 2018, h. 12:10 Germany 1 Norway February 18th 2018, h. 21:10 Sweden 1 Finland [/hide]

I cannot really say why, but I'm enjoying the Czech Republic song wayyyy too much Perhaps the reason is that the chorus sounds like Ed Sheeran

I'm very happy that there'll be a biathlon prediction contest, but a bit sad at the same time. I like to over-analyse things which often leads to a fairly decent record in biathlon prediction contests for me, unfortunately, since we have to post 15-ish days of predictions in one night, it becomes more of a lottery. I understand the sprint and the pursuit are necessary to be posted on the same day, but I know that my predictions would change drastically after I've seen those two races, because we haven't seen the athletes for about three weeks when they hit the Olympics. Perhaps someone ain't feeling well, or is drastically underperforming on the skis or range, but you already have them locked in for individual and mass start (for example). Another thing that I like to look at is the starting bibs that are only announced a day before the actual competition and lastly the conditions matter as well, because there's athletes that you wouldn't be likely to bet on if for example that day had strong wind.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Darya Domracheva Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier x Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete x x Men's 10km Sprint Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade x Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete x Women's 10km Pursuit Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Darya Domracheva Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen x Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier x Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer x Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade x Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete x Women's 15km Individual Day 4 February 14th, 2018 Darya Domracheva x Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen x Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer x Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete Men's 20km Individual Day 5 February 15th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade x Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen x Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete x Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 6 February 17th, 2018 Darya Domracheva x Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen x Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier x Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete Men's 15km Mass Start Day 7 February 18th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade x Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch x Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe x Emil Hegle Svendsen Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete 2x6km Women's + 2x7.5km Men's Mixed Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2018 Austria Belarus Czech Republic Finland France Germany x Italy x Norway x Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 9 February 22nd, 2018 Belarus Canada Czech Republic France Germany x Italy x Norway Poland Slovakia Sweden x Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 10 February 23rd, 2018 Austria x Canada Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation [/hide]

Well, I'll have a pursuit to look forward to Although, the more shots that we take, the less chance that we have

Yup Top 5 at best now.

I think we're losing the podium by a couple of seconds Unless someone flops.

It's so stressful to have someone to root for

Looking good

Truly on our way for a historical result, if only he keeps up with the ski-speed.

Okay, 3:53 is probably one of the best Biathlon inside jokes

Didn't you guys already cross that line?

Well, I wouldn't call it as much as "Eurovision politics", but it is very important to be famous if you want to get anywhere in the televote. Basically, there are quite a few people that can perform up to 10 times worse than you, but people would still vote for them a lot, because they're "that person". On the other hand, the jury has also shown the tendency to favour those artists that tend to comeback a lot or have a name. Although, I can't really complain there, because even last year I got pretty decent jury votes.

I'm one step ahead of your media

Hm, I like the Spanish song, I'd just say that they should spend a bit more time at the grand piano's and their stage chemistry looks very very fake, so a lot more work on that.

Well, he is on the men's side, he just needs a couple more years to mature in order to be capable of good performances in the world cup. He is already a regular in IBU cup points, so I'd say something like two to three years for a good transition.

Well, to add to that, Invenius seems like a very promising talent as well

Well, 15th place and no penalty loops is a pretty okay result for us. The women combined lost 6 minutes and 50 seconds on snow whilst the men combined lost 2 minutes and 20, so you don't need to be a mathematician to know where we need to work on Anyways, Linas Banys is a pretty promising youngster, if his shooting doesn't fail him, top 10 is a possibility in individual starts.

@rybak you probably did no expect a mixed relay medal from your juniors? Congrats.

And France disqualified for some reason, which makes Finland, Slovenia and Belarus the final podium.

What a nice victory for Finnish junior team in the single-mixed

I assume it would include attaching bowling shoes to your skis and then you'd have to bowl at the range after doing some laps

Well, our start in the junior and U23 World Championships is traditionally horrendous

I was really looking forward to this race..............................................