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many declined until Pidruchniy qualified as a top 25 athlete

I like this podium

Technically, it's a quarterfinal for Lithuania.

Good news guys, both of the songs that I wrote have survived the first show. Now it's up to me to carry the torch

Can I pretend that I called it?

Can't express how annoyed I was with that entire situation. Perhaps even more annoyed than the fact that we have no one capable of anything apart from the A team.

Vishnevskaya appears for the first time this season, I was wondering where had she gone.

Pretty decent performance from team Lithuania, but not without blunders. Karol Dombrovski lost everything in the standing shooting Vytautas Strolia lost everything in the prone Tomas Kaukėnas undid his early good work with the penalty Maksim Fomin, I'm glad that he's here, he ran a very respectable relay, knowing his situation. 17th place is good enough, especially for the Olympic qualification.

That didn't age well

I don't know where all this trust in Hinz is coming from when three of Maren's performances this season were better than anything she did the entire season.

I don't know, I feel like I'd still run with Maren over Hinz. She just feels a bit more stable and reliable at this point in time.

It's hard to say, but I always struggle to bet for France in the relays, because someone usually has a meltdown. Simon and Braisaz are also pretty unpredictable shooters, even if fast, they can have good days, but they also have really really bad days. Since Hettich and Hammerschmidt are shooting very well, Preuss is pretty good and Herrmann is regaining some of her form, perhaps I'd lean towards them? Sweden is not having too good of a time in Oberhof, so it's tough to say if they can challenge for the 1st spot. Belarus and Austria could do something on a good day.

I think the fact that you had 6 athletes start in the ibu cup and have two athletes running in World Cup is already a pretty decent sign that Croatia is trying to step up their game. Sure, the infrastructure is better elsewhere, but you have to start somewhere and if there will be more athletes flooding into the Croatian team, I'm sure you can pick yourselves up from this slump and become stronger players in the biathlon field.

This really makes me think that despite all of the covid issues, this season is very prone to injuries. Skottheim, Tandrevold, Szczurek come up right now, but I feel like I forgot someone.

Perhaps being a bit slower is her key to shooting better and she's trying to mix things up? It's her best effort this season, if I remember correctly.

Lithuania was so unhappy with the recent performances of Linas Banys, that they're actually bringing in Fomin from Arber to replace him at least in the relay

Kozica ran a good sprint though, her final placement was better than everything that Lithuania tried to do today in both the women and men races Also, it's very interesting how the 15 yo with the worst shooting was actually the best Croat.

I don't know where I went wrong, but even with all 10 of my athletes in the top 20 in both sprints, I got absolutely blasted in the score.

She really likes Oberhof, I wouldn't be surprised if this is her PB for the rest of the season, which is why I'm slightly disappointed she was not able to hold onto points.

Our grandma nearly got points for Lithuanian women Too bad she died in the final lap, if she kept her momentum, she would have finished around Sanfilippo and into points, so a little bit sad because of that.

Yeahhhhhhh..... no World Cup for Stina this year or any time soon

Dude, you spend enough time on this forum to know where she is

Wait, isn't it 6 sprints, 3 relays, 1 individual, 1 mixed relay and 1 single mixed best performances?

I think it's much more interesting to place your bets if Sara Urumova will be 10 minutes behind in the sprint or will she get under 10 minutes??

Well, I expected a bit more starters from Lithuania. There were definitely 2 more men and 1 more woman that we could have added to the team.