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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.

It isnt necessary, nothing we write here is necessary. Still its the truth, Czech Republic should be less attractive for athletes, but thats not the case. Who knows? Maybe in a couple of years athletes will prefer representing Burkina Faso or something like that over Germany ...

1) At least Johaug and Sundby were banned, something we would never see in biathlon. 2) How is Tandrevold supposed to dominate? Its not like she is super fast in cross-country, more like a bit above average. Wierer, Vitozzi, Dahlmeier, Davidova and so on are all on the same level.

Impressive from Dahlmeier despite being completely out of shape, good position for the pursuit. Norway improved a lot on the womens side this season. The only positive thing is that they will never dominate on the womens side, otherwise biathlon would turn into another snoozefest like cross-country. Who knows? Maybe the fact that officials in cross-country skiing take the fight against doping more seriously than the biathlon officials will lead to more and more norwegian talents prefering biathlon over cross-country.

Obviously Kuzmina took her magical potion again. Thank god she will be gone after this season.

Good to know, now even the Czech Republic is more attractive for athletes than Germany, sad times ... Don't remember a german athlete by that name.

Sad to see that Germany is already participating, on the other hand i never would have went with that song, so only having one jury member clearly makes it easier.

If only germany could be this dominant on the mens side ... Didnt know the Czech Republic invested in skeleton. Do they even have a track there?

1) Weird way to spell I-S-A-B-E-L-L W-E-R-T-H 2) "Biggest gold medal favorite" vs. "Outside chance ..."?

Anyone had a perfect prediction? I got Norway and Italy right, but sadly France completely messed up instead of winning silver ...