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I don't remember, but an individual time penalty in the youth competition for a missed shot is 45 seconds?

Well, that's fairly sad. Koukalova and Kuzmina out after the Olympics, there is a huge possibility that Kaisa will be out also and I don't think that Domracheva is going to stick around for too long either. Not many people left to challenge Dahlmeier, though I think she's going to have a short career just like Neuner, because 11 world championship medals in two years might make her bored. Looking at the post Olympic season, it seems that the Italian and the French teams are going to be very strong, Preuss is very promissing if she fixes her health issues, Merkushyna seems like she is growing up to be a star. Still, there will always be a void in my heart when Kaisa Makarainen quits

Well, thank you very much for the picture. I'm expecting 7 pursuit races and 1 top 15. Let's see how my plan "minimal expectations" will work out

I contacted our federation and got the information on our team. I believe this is definitely the biggest squad we have ever sent to any biathlon competition (I would still argue, that we had another youth women and 1 junior men that could have joined the team) TEAM LITHUANIA YOUTH MEN Linas Banys Jokūbas Mačkinė Maksim Fomin Nikita Romanov YOUTH WOMEN Raminta Dindaitė Ana Jesipionok Darija Jankauskaitė JUNIOR MEN Deivid Demkov Artiom Serdiukov JUNIOR WOMEN Gabrielė Leščinskaitė Kotryna Vitkūnaitė

What a good day for me today. Nearly all of my favourite biathletes managed to get a medal on the last day. Way to go 2x Simon!!!! and Johannes.

MAKARAINEN!!!!!!!! Thank goodness she managed to set things right in the final race of these championships.

Well, we really messed up our chances for 5 quota's in the Olympics, just because two of our leaders couldn't avoid the penalty loop Beautiful skiing by Landertinger, happy for Austria.

Well, that's awkward. When 47 athletes fail to finish, our 17 year old can get away with 43rd place and right behind the best alpine skiiers from Spain, Andorra, Argentina!!! Marcel Hirscher won't know what hit him when we're in Korea.

Funniest thing is that she produced one of the fastest shooting times that day and only missed one But 90% of the time she misses 2 in the stand. Though it is quite upsetting discussing about Diana's career, because in a better country she could have been one of the best, but Lithuania ruined her. There were times when her shooting speed was one of the best and she needed to slow it down and she would produce top 10/top 20 ski speed's. Props to Teja Gregorin for aging gracefully

Yeah, if everything goes well and Jesipionok, Dindaitė, Romanov and Mačkinė stick with this sport, I'm expecting a brighter future for our Biathlon in the next 4-5 years, because unlike most of our previous generations, these guys have fundamental shooting skills and ability to hit targets from a young age, whilst all of our other athletes would just try to ski super fast and miss 5-6 during sprints and 8-12 during pursuits. I don't know what changed in these couple of years in our training, but it seems that we started teaching biathletes how to think during the race. Edit: A good example would be Diana Rasimovičiūtė's shooting pattern during the stand (1, 2, 5, 4, 3), sometimes it's 1,2,5,3,4, also on some occasions she starts from the second one and goes to five etc. You wouldn't see our youngsters doing that

Sorry to spoil your victory parade, but Jesipionok should be starting in the Youth Race, because she's three years younger than Gabriela By the way, that's the only reason why I actually believe in our Youth team, because 4 of our 16,17 y.o.'s managed to get into top 45-60 on the junior's cup on a few occasions, when nearly all of their competition was 20/21. Edit: You'll only be getting Leščinskaitė and Vitkūnaitė for this one and they are not very easy targets as of yet

I would offer you a friendly rivalry, but your youngsters will probably blow us away

Although the World Championships are the most important thing at the moment, I am very hyped up about the Youth & Junior World Championships and in Slovakia out of all places! If I am not mistaken, we are going to be sending a huge team and we might even get some decent results on the Youth side and Junior women. @hckosice Will you be going to watch the races live?

Oh man, after biathlonews closed down, I don't get any biathlon news on the other teams so I don't know anything what so ever anymore. Damn, I hope Oberhofer gets all 6 golds in Korea, she needs it.

Expected 3 medals, got 1 gold and two penalties in the final Well, whatever the case, our young short-track skater seems like a very strong edition for our miserable winter sport. I just hope we don't ruin him like we do to all of our talented winter sport athletes. (We had a cc skiier that used to beat Kowalczyk and a biathlete that used to go toe to toe with Semerenko sisters, Koukalova and other stars)

Oh, well that's much better news then. Cause she was having a bad start at Ostersund, so I only assumed there was something wrong with her form Hopefully she'll get back like Dorin-Habert.

It's fairly nice to see Cecilia Aymonier making a successful transfer from cross-country skiing. I wonder if Hermann will have the same luck next year, although it's very difficult to get in to the German team. PS: Also, if Latuilliere works on her shooting there'll be another strong French on the rise on a team that's already very strong.

Wierer and Hofer didn't really show up this season. And I'm guessing Oberhofer's out with some health problems? Other than that, Windish seems fairly strong, Vittozzi should come back even stronger next year, Runggaldier has regained some of her previous form and Sanfilippo is a contender as well. You'll surely have medals in Korea.

Here you go, Slovakia in 8th Hopefully Wierer and Makarainen can do something in the mass start tomorrow, they deserve a medal

Alright, today's race was another step towards a historical Olympic relay. The battle between Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Latvia is harsh, we managed to come up on top last year and hopefully we'll be able to do that again.

Alright, thanks for the answer, hopefully they will manage to get another medal in the bag

I don't usually follow Alpine Skiing. May someone inform me on what happened to Sweden throughout the years? I remember they didn't have trouble getting medals, especially on the women's side.

Yes, but I would still like to expect another one in the final distance

There are still many regulars missing, I'm sure they'll come around.

And then there's us, with occasional mass starts and quite frequent top 40's now struggling to even break in to the top 60 This was also our go to winter sport after Figure skating legends Vanagas and Drobiazko. Also, from looking at the Slovakian team, Paulina Fialkova is not that bad plus you'll have two women in the mass start. And your men's team has improved significantly throughout the years. I remember they used to be in the 60-80s a couple of years ago, but now on some occasions you qualify 3 for the pursuits and your relay has shown much improvement as well.