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Why Herrmann-Gontier-Eckhoff show? Surprised that Germany starts with their 2 weakest athletes, there is a good chance that Italy, Norway and maybe some other relays will already be out of reach when Herrmann takes over. Based on what i saw so far my favorites are Norway and Sweden.

Juventus isnt particulary popular anywhere outside of Italy and City is a lot more fun to watch + with City vs. Barca you would have Pep vs. his old team.

Never understood why there is a need for that. If you dont care about a users opinion, then just ignore him (its not like any of you guys has anything more important to do with his time, so i am sure taking 0,1 seconds to recognize that a comment was made by a certain user and that you therefore dont have to bother reading it wont stop you from achieving anything important in your lives). The sad thing is that most guys constantly feel the need to point out that certain users should be ignored, but then they still go on and reply to them (for example like our czech friend did in the biathlon thread after the mens individual race or how our dutch friend keeps answering to comments of mine without actually replying, because he thinks that way he can tell himself that he is actually ignoring me).

Why was that expected? I think Liverpool is more popular than Juventus, maybe City too.

Pretty much the expected draw. City, Juventus and Barca are by far the 3 best teams and UEFA wants them all in the semifinal (alongside Liverpool). Would be a huge surprise if the final wont be between 2 out of City, Juventus and Barca. I dont like any of those teams, but Barca winning the title would be the least bad of those 3 bad options for me.

You also went skating today?

Thanks, but ZDF (german channel that broadcasted the race this afternoon) also just uploaded it, so i will watch it there. Since there wont be any races the next 2 days i will have enough time to catch up until the action resumes on saturday. Very happy for Peiffer, he is my favorite german biathlete because he is always very humble and pragmatic. Quite remarkable that he is olympic and world champion in two different disciplines despite not being very successful in the world cup, probably most guys (except for Fourcade and J. Boe) would love to trade places with him.

Fuuuuark ... Thought that this would be another boring race, so i went skating instead. Now i come home to find out that Peiffer won gold and of course there is no way to rewatch the whole race ...

Lol ... Sweden, Italy and France it is ...

Congrats to the new Tora Berger. If Pichler wouldnt be her coach, i could be happy for her. Very deserved medal for Vitozzi. Braisaz with a once in a lifetime performance by her standards. Dahlmeier in average shape would have won a medal, possibly even gold.

Denise Herrmann will do the same. I guess i dont have to bother watching it then.

Wasnt Loginov banned for 2 years before? Would make it a completely different story imo ...

1) He shouldnt have said it publicly. 2) I think we all feel the same about Pidruchnyi. 3) He will never get caught, considering how IBU is dealing with doping.

Not sure Germany will shoot well, apart from Dahlmeier noone seems to be in a great shooting form. Norway and Germany have won enough already, i would like to see Italy, France or Sweden winning it. Mostly Italy and Sweden because France should win enough medals on the mens side.

I agree, i am shocked actually that girls like Brorsson or Eckhoff completely dominate her in cross-country. Its hard to win races when you are such a slow shooter and are also in a bad cross-country shape. Its surprising that she gave up the inside, especially because 1 minute before a german coach told her to close the inside. I have to give respect to Eckhoff for not completely closing the inside, otherwise Dahlmeier would have had to stop in order to not "miss" the finish, very fair by Eckhoff.

The relay could be really interesting. Sweden, Norway, France, Italy, Russia and Germany could all win it.

I dont think i have ever seen Dahlmeier in such a bad shape in cross-country, she is completely average ...

Very sad for Sweden, again so close ... We just witnessed the biggest surprise in the history of sports. Herrmann with 0 under such difficult conditions? The probability of that happening must be around one in a billion. Anyone thinks that Dahlmeier can beat Eckhoff?

I would say Brorsson, Eckhoff and Dahlmeier are the clear favorites for the medals, maybe Tandrevold or Oeberg can sneak in there. Right now i fancy Brorsson for gold.

Lol @ Nuis not being disqualified. Easily the most scandalous decision of this winter sport season. Also interesting that apparently 5-6 dutch athletes had very suspicious blood values, but noone was caught doping.

1) Still no source ... 2) This might shock you, but not everyone knows czech, so looking at "the other ones" wouldnt really have helped me.

Where did you find that? Couldnt find any german source ...

Cant find anything about that, only the following things: - Her mother is from the Czech Republic and her father is from Germany - She started as a gymnast, but when her family moved to Berchtesgaden in 2011 (from Heusenstamm, another german city) there was no good gymnastics club around so she started with skeleton. Apparently she was a gymnast for 8 years, but i couldnt find out whether she was for 8 years in the same club. - In 2018 she moved back to the Czech Republic and is studying in Prague

I wonder if you really didnt "invest" anything. From what i read she used to work for the german police, which of course isnt the case now anymore, so i wonder whether the Czech Republic is financing her in any way.

Interesting thing to say. So if Ashley Wagner or Bernard Tomic would suddenly decide to compete for Germany it wouldnt be strange? I think once you started for a certain country at senior level, you shouldnt be allowed to change nationality. I also think its a shitty move from her to change nationality, considering how much Germany invested in her. The only thing i agree on is that she easily has enough talent to overtake at least Griebel, possibly also the other 2 girls.