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Switzerland has a pretty solid team, so it may not be easy to make the team. Goreeva on the other hand should definitely compete in the World Cup soon. I hope that Repinc will also soon join the Slovenian team.

Not surprising to see Greenland without a medal (so far), more surprised to see Sweden without a medal. I think Sweden, Belarus and Czech Republic are the most likely to join the medal table. The guy from New Zealand could do it as well, but he needs to have a decent shooting result.

Thanks to the absence of Bjorgen and Kalla, the dominance of Dopehaug has become even more boring. Everyone except 1 woman more than 1 minute back.

May sound harsh, but the German women should all retire as soon as possible. They are so far away when it comes to skiing speed that there is absolutely no hope for them at senior level. I don’t know what the german Coaches do professionally, but they definitely shouldn’t be paid for coaching. I am completely shocked how it is possible that every single athlete is that horrible in cross-country skiing. I doubt that they would be any slower if their coaches would actively try to sabotage them (which already might be the case). Compared to them Janina Hettich looks like a transcendental talent in cross-country skiing.

Women’s junior sprint: Gold for Baserga (0 misses) Silver for Passler (1 miss) Bronze for Arnekleiv (1 miss) Goreeva (3 misses) from Russia with superior skiing speed, would have won gold with 1 miss.

Okay and the fact that nobody will retire anytime soon is bad because? Also impressive that you know about the future planning of all of those women.

Yes, the two German grandmas Ramona Hofmeister (born in 1996, first in World Cup) and Cheyenne Loch (born in 1994, 3rd in World Cup) are about to retire as well.

Already 8 different nations with medals (6 of those already with multiple medals). Norway and Sweden still without medal, so we should definitely get to 10 different nations winning at least one medal. Very impressive race again by Irodov, maybe he can be the first? athlete to win all individual golds. Slovenia has both top end talents (Repinc, Cisar) and good depth, they could definitely finish top 3 in medal table. Maybe someone from Italy knows if Piller Cottrer is related to the former cross country skier?

Would have been interesting to see Ledecka vs. the Young Russian. Quite funny that the Germans dominate the World Cup (and possibly the World champs), but might very well end up with a bronze medal at the Olympics at best.

Was it really expected for the German women to dominate? I think the young Russian is the huge favorite and will win gold unless she falls, but maybe this is only the case for PS tomorrow?

Way much info than I wanted ... I guess his „retarding“ is just a trick to impress the ladies.

So you are constantly replying to your own comments? Sounds like a fun job ... Also doesn’t seem smart admitting that you are a bot. Not sure what the forum policy is, but I think bots should be banned from the site?

Interesting take. Riethmüller doesn’t seem to have improved in skiing from last year, which is a bad sign. Today multiple younger guys (Zingerle, Perrot) had better skiing times than him. Also at the youth level there was a german guy who finished 5th (and would have won gold with one less miss), much better than Riethmüller. On the women’s side Grotian had a top 5 skiing time despite being 2 years younger than many of her competitors.

Who are you? Bye!

The empire strikes back in the most important of all Olympic events!

Okay ... you were suspiciously active in this thread for someone who doesn’t care. I have no problem with Zyla winning the gold medal, I feel like he deserved it towards the end of his career after being a journeyman for most of it. Also always liked his „retarding“ around, what do you feed that guy?

Aged well ...

I have a soft spot in my heart for trolls, but if you want to jump into a discussion, then at least make sure that you know what it is about. (Please don’t answer me if you can’t be bothered to read the discussion from the start)

No reason to refer to a joke event. Germany can win gold in men’s large hill ski jumping and Nordic combined men’s large hill (not saying that they are favorites).

Must hurt ... Is Poland still ahead of Germany in the medal table? Also first the prediction was no gold and now it is not any more golds ... Please make predictions like that, you seem to bring luck to Germany.

I think you are in the wrong thread. This is for olympic sports, not clown sports like snooker, darts or cricket. Maybe come back once mighty England wins the World Cup again ...

1) Please learn to troll better (you shouldn’t contradict yourself, otherwise your words can be used against you) 2) I would be really interested in hearing what kind of logic allows you to say that a statement and a contradiction of that statement are both true at the same time ...

According to your logic this wouldn’t be a surprise ... since Germany won the last 3 mixed events at worlds.

Surprising gold for Germany, considering that it wasn’t Riethmüller who won it. Sadly Riethmüller seems to have regressed, which probably means that he won’t be the savior for German men’s biathlon. Germany now has won 3 of the last 4 men’s individual races at junior level, which shows that results at this level shouldn’t be overestimated. I think at this age level the best talents (apart from Giacomel (Italy, 2000), Bionaz (Italy, 2000) and Andersen (Norway, 1999)) are Cisar (Slovenia, 2000), Claude (France, 1999) and Perrot (France, 2001).

I think the other nations could make a change. If all the nations except Norway and Russia boycott the competitions until Norway/Russia are banned, then we could see a change. Obviously Russia and Norway are very important, but I think all the other nations combined and their tv money is more important. Sadly the national federations also have no backbone.