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Only negative side today was that german tv barely showed Davidova, whats the point of broadcasting a biathlon event just to completely ignore the biggest star of the competition?

Cant complain as a german fan. With Dahlmeier instead of Hinz this would have been a cakewalk gold for Germany, but since Germany never competes with their best team in the mixed relay (least important of all olympic biathlon events) this isnt really news. France by far the biggest loser today, for them it was over at the first exchange already. Very encouraging result from Herrmann who completely dominated Olsbu and Wierer, two of the best athletes of this season so far. IF Herrmann isnt too tired tomorrow and stays without an error, then i cant see anyone threatening her.

The first two are true, but for me the third Ajax goal was irregular, the ball was clearly outside. Real has more than enough money to rebuild quickly, no reason to worry about them.

The irony of someone from Italy accusing german athletes of doping ... She cant be that ill considering that she initially was supposed to compete. Would also like to know whether the scenario you are describing here actually ever happened?

Bernhard Kröll, the guy who discovered her and Magdalena Neuner, recently said that he cant imagine that she will continue until 2022 ...

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Mixed Relay 2x6km + 2.7.5km Day 1 March 7th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic France X Germany Italy X Norway X Russia Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 2 March 8th, 2019 Marketa Davidova Kaisa Makarainen X Anais Chevalier Laura Dahlmeier Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Any other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer X Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland X Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Men's 10km Sprint Day 3 March 9th, 2019 Simon Eder Julian Eberhard Simon Desthieux X Antonin Guigonnat Martin Fourcade X Quentin Fillon Maillet Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Any Other Athlete Women's 10km Pursuit Day 4 March 10th, 2019 Iryna Kryuko Kaisa Makarainen X Anais Chevalier Laura Dahlmeier X Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Any other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer X Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Monika Hojnisz Anastasiya Kuzmina Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 4 March 10th, 2019 Simon Eder Simon Desthieux X Antonin Guigonnat Martin Fourcade X Quentin Fillon Maillet Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete Women's 15km Individual Day 5 March 12th, 2019 Kaisa Makarainen Anais Chevalier X Laura Dahlmeier X Franziska Preuss Franziska Hildebrand Dorothea Wierer X Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Monika Hojnisz Any Russian Athlete Anastasiya Kuzmina Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg Yuliia Dzhima Any Other Athlete Men's 20km Individual Day 6 March 13th, 2019 Simon Eder Simon Desthieux Antonin Guigonnat Martin Fourcade X Quentin Fillon Maillet X Erik Lesser Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Any Other Russian Athlete Any Other Athlete Mixed Single Relay 6km + 7.5km Day 7 March 14th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic France X Germany X Italy Norway X Russia Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 8 March 16th, 2019 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France X Germany X Italy X Norway Poland Russia Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 8 March 16th, 2019 Austria Belgium Czech Republic France X Germany Italy Norway X Russia X Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 9 March 17th, 2019 Iryna Kryuko Kaisa Makarainen Laura Dahlmeier X Franziska Preuss Franziska Hildebrand Any other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi X Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Monika Hojnisz Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht Anastasiya Kuzmina Paulina Fialkova X Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Men's 15km Mass Start Day 9 March 17th, 2019 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Simon Desthieux X Antonin Guigonnat Martin Fourcade X Quentin Fillon Maillet Erik Lesser Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Any Other Russian Athlete Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Of course i hope that Germnay wins the gold medal, but Norway should be the clear favorite. I wonder why Preuß wont compete instead of Hinz, hopefully she isnt ill again.

Oops ... Thought this was the start list for the junior world championships ... No it makes sense why a guy born in 1984 is allowed to compete.

Easy win for Agger, but only 2 points between 2nd and 6th place, really high level of competition. Expected to medal here, but in the end i cant complain since i never watch cross-country skiing and thats probably what killed my chances. Would be interesting to know if anyone predicted Bernhard Gruber to win a medal in one of the two individual competitions ...

Great to see that Charles Hamelin was able to lie his way into this competition by pretending to be a teenager ...

I wonder what happened between last season and this one ... Last season Real never should have won the champions league, but the referees didnt allow them to be eliminated. This season it was somewhat the other way round, the third goal for Ajax was clearly irregular but still counted. Mind to guess the nationality of the referee for yesterday's game? Ajax has some talented players and apparently a pretty good coach (who used to work for FC Bayern), sadly their "run" won't last long, teams like that get picked apart very quickly in today's game. The same happened to Dortmund (Lewandowski, Götze, Gündogan, Sahin, Kagawa) although they were a much richer club than Ajax. I used to predict a very dark future for dutch football, but guys like De Ligt, De Jong, Bergwijn, Kluivert or Van Dijk should ensure that they have at least a decent future and will qualify for big tournaments more regularly again.

I wouldn't do 2019 athletics, instead it might make sense to have one for the 2020 youth olympics. Maybe one for the Tour de France could also work?

Of course i have been very outspoken about it and thats why other people adopted it. I want other people to use this strategy, because i feel like i dont even have to try and still win and that gets kinda boring, which is sad because i prefer this kind of prediction contest over the normal prediction contests. If i only would have answered the 16 questions (out of 56 questions in total) i gave 10 points to, then i would have ended up with 140 points, which would have been enough for 2nd place (3 points behind the winner). I know that i dont even have to bother to think about the correct answer for all those questions i want to give 1 point to (40 out 56 questions = 71 %), because i will probably still win without even getting one of them right.

Maybe your problem is that you don't know enough about the subject to realize that it's in fact not "throwing 10s around"? I bet 10 points on 16 different questions and i only got the following 2 wrong: Cross-country: 3: I bet 10 points that Norway would have 5 athletes in sprint finals. If it wouldnt have been for Skistadt's fall in the semifinal, i would have been right. Sorry, that i didnt see that coming ... Ski jumping: 4: I bet 10 points that Kraft wouldnt win 3 medals. Would have been right here as well if it wouldnt have been for that joke normal hill competition (or if Aschenwald would have gotten 0.5 more points from some judge ...). The trick is to filter out the "safe" bets and then to use as many points as possible on them. Seems like a quite obvious strategy to me, but apparently it isn't. In the end you have to play the game. I didn't make the rules. If you dont like them, then dont participate or participate but dont cry about them afterwards just because you didnt know how to take advantage of them.

Thanks! Expected win, i wonder when people will realize that my strategy is the best for this contest? On the one hand it's sad that so few people took part, on the other hand i think it shows how much more difficult this is than the other "normal" prediction contests we usually have. Thanks for organizing all this and hopefully next time i will get the chance to contribute some questions (this time i didn't know that the contest would take place before i saw the thread with the finished design).

We will see, there are many guys in the mix (Kenny, the 2 dutch guys, Bötticher, Carlin). I am starting to think that the Netherlands might have a serious shot at winning 2-3 golds in Tokyo. I think at this point everyone knows to not take results at world championships seriously, but based on what i heard from the german federation for example after the last olympics i think that other nations learned their lesson and will step up at the olympics. Maybe the fact that GB has decreased the funding will also have an effect.

Not only them, also Moen and Grovdal, quite a project you having going on over there.

Holy shit ... I bet 10 points in the bet contest on YES for this question ... On the other hand i predicted Sundby to win a medal ... Edit: Still no results? Why does it take you so long ...

- WOMEN'S? - 400 m?

Why? What Vlhova did was ten times more impressive than this result from Volko ...

No, not really ... - Heat - Attendance - Some athletes not competing/peaking because of the olympics only a couple months later

No surprise that the only sport Norway isn't doing great in is the one where endurance doesn't matter. Interestingly enough Norway is also suddenly doing great in distance running.

What a random result in women's team sabre ... Germany with a ridiculous path to the final. In the end individual results are far more important than team results at junior level and overall the results were very worrying from a german perspective.

In most events the level is absolutely depressing, sadly we have to wait almost one and a half years for the next interesting competition.

If Prevc brothers get their shit together, then Slovenia could fight for gold in 2022, together with possibly Norway, Japan and Germany.