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You are thinking way too complicated. You can just genetically engineer people. In China they already used CRISPR on twin babies.

How would her absence make races much more exciting? It would still be a complete dominance by Norway and Sweden (kind of like Ethiopia/Kenya in long distance running), unless of course someone like Fossesholm develops into another Johaug and completely dominates. Maybe one day we will see Norwegian/Swedish athletes changing nationality if they can’t make the team, at least it would mean that more countries can compete for medals. Swedish/Norwegian athletes are far better off than Kenyan/Ethiopian athletes + the nations that could buy them don’t care about winter sports. Maybe Qatar will host Winter Olympics one day and then they will buy a bunch of Norwegian/Swedish athletes ...

Would be like a lab experiment with all the crazy substances influencing their genetic material. I always hope that people like that at least have the decency not to have children.

Looking at the skiing times, Repinc (born in 2003, by far the best skiing time) seems to be clearly the biggest talent. Zingerle (born in 2002) also had a great skiing time. Very encouraging to see Grotian (born in 2004) from Germany with one of the fastest skiing times despite being 2 years younger than most of the other girls. Richard and Michelon from France also look good. The Russian girls were surprisingly slow, will be interesting to see if they can turn it around (after all it was just one race). Hard to know how much value all of the results have thanks to the Norwegian absence, but it is very hard to imagine that any of the Norwegian girls are on the same talent level as Repinc.

So already two nations you hadn’t on your list with medals, also Sweden and Belarus pretty close.

Would be nice if people who know the results would post them here instead of just naming random medalists ... Gold: Jeanne Richard (France) Silver: Lena Repinc (Slovenia) Bronze: Ema Kapustova (Slovakia) Interesting that Repinc started first, followed by Andersson (who finished 4th). Richard started 6th and Kapustova started 9th. It looks as if the starting order had an influence on the result.

All the German officials were perfectly clear about the situation before the start of this competition. Nobody expected a medal in women’s ski jumping for example. You clearly didn’t inform yourself about what the expectations were in Germany. Also I don’t really care about the situation in Slovenia and Germany should never compare itself to Slovenia.

Another bad day for the sport when a doper steals another medal. Also another horribly boring race. Cross-country should be one of the most exciting sports, but for the last few years it has mostly been super boring. Not sure what can be done to change it. The difference between Norway/Sweden and the rest is just too big. It would be a start to allow less athletes from Norway/Sweden to compete and to focus more on shorter races. I think with climate change the gap will otherwise just get bigger.

Can’t believe that German television is showing a trash event like women’s combined instead of men’s giant slalom.

Please stop trolling/don’t talk about things you have no clue of/inform yourself before talking nonsense. Thanks!

Don’t know what you mean with „Riiber did the same“. I am sure he didn’t plan to have such a bad jump. Not sure what happened with the Germans today but if Geiger would have been in normal shape, Riiber might have very well lost this race (given that Geiger started almost at the same time as Herola and usually is at pretty much the same level of skiing, but much better at sprints). Recently the German guys completely dominated Oftebro in cross-country skiing and often took around 1 minute off of him. It is very surprising that he also was able to beat someone like Watabe. I think either a lot of guys are completely out of shape or they just couldn’t deal with the conditions (maybe thanks to bad material). In a usual race there is no way that Oftebro would have finished ahead of Frenzel/Riessle/Watabe and that Herola would have finished that far ahead of Geiger.

Interesting that there won’t be any Norwegians in the youth races tomorrow. Looking at the start list of the women’s race I would predict at least one medal for Russia (thanks to their superior speed) and the other two medals should go to two out of Zingerle/Michelon/Repinc.

Surprised about Greenland. I think at least one out of Sweden and Slovenia will medal. Edit: After reading this I actually see a good chance for Slovenia to finish top 5 in medal table (by number of medals): https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/who-will-be-the-next-jt-boe-and-lisa-theresa-hauser Cisar and Repinc seem to be special talents.

Too bad that there won’t be a free live stream. I prefer watching junior events because doping isn’t as big a problem at junior level.

Yes, all endurance events. I understand the coaches though, doping your athletes as a German coach is pretty close to suicide. In the US no one really gives a shit. No surprise that British rowing, British cycling and Swedish biathlon was made big by German coaches who weren’t wanted here, they can’t pull off the same shit in Germany.

Really? I think barely any experts considered him the favorite before the start with only 20 seconds advantage compared to Riessle/Frenzel. Obviously the Norwegians either had insane material or had a great „training“ camp. When even some rando like Oftebro can beat Riessle/Frenzel, you know that something weird is going on.

Would you rather sacrifice one child to save two adults or two children to save four adults?

a) Sorry, not sure what you are trying to say. b) I don’t wonder why Norway is able to develop world class speed skaters unlike Germany. Germany doesn’t develop world class speed skaters because they don’t want to and they don’t want to, because thanks to the GDR past German coaches are too „scared“ to develop a doping program. Other nations don’t have that „baggage“.

I just heard that Pichler was involved in „developing“ him. I think this is all the proof one needs.

I don’t think you can apply normal „logic“ today. The conditions will be special thanks to the temperatures, we might have a very soft course, which would Help lighter athletes (Herola). The German coach just said that he hopes for a hard course, because the German athletes are generally on the heavier side. Personally I wouldn’t be shocked to see Herola/Geiger on the podium.

Agreed, the funny thing is that thanks to this, the men have 2 team competitions and the women have only 1, so it promotes inequality. In my opinion there absolutely shouldn’t be normal team events/relays and mixed team events/relays. In some cases it makes sense to have a mixed team event/relay instead of normal relays/team events (if it increases the number of nations that can compete for a medal), not sure about ski jumping though. Quite interesting that there actually might be more competition on the women’s side. I think having a women’s team competition might also be good for the level of competition in the long run, because nations will have to develop 4 good athletes in order to compete for a medal. I really hope that we won’t have 7 ski jumping competitions at the Olympics in the long run (2 x 2 individual competitions + 3 team competitions), there is absolutely no way that ski jumping should have that many events, when for example figure skating only has 5 events (and one of those actually shouldn’t be an Olympic event). Personally I would like to see less events overall, but sadly this won’t happen (thanks to monetary reasons).

Forgot to ask: Is the mixed an Olympic event?

Which 10 nations do you have in mind? Last year 12 different nations won a medal and surprisingly Sweden wasn’t one of them. I doubt that Bulgaria will medal again and Belarus/USA each won only one bronze last year, on the other hand this time nations like Kazakhstan, Ukraine or New Zealand could medal. The following individual medalists will be young enough to return (in the same age category): - Amy Baserga (won bronze in junior women individual) - Linda Zingerle (won gold in youth women sprint and bronze in youth women pursuit) - Oceane Michelon (won bronze in youth women sprint) - Anastasia Shevchenko (won gold in junior women sprint and gold in junior women pursuit) - Aasne Skrede (won silver in junior women sprint and silver in women junior pursuit) - Danilo Riethmüller (won gold in junior men pursuit) - Alex Cisar (won bronze in junior men pursuit) From a German perspective I hope that Danilo Riethmüller will win at least one medal again. Not sure about the women’s side though, there doesn’t seem to be a special talent. Germany seems to have the same problem as usual: They just aren’t competitive in cross-country. I guess on the women’s side Zingerle should dominate at youth level and Shevchenko/Aasne should dominate at junior level, on the men’s side it looks more open.

True, I don’t see them beating Norway or Austria, but they could beat every other nation.

Agreed. I honestly can’t believe what is going on. Now we might have 3 olympics in a row without a bidding process. Everyone knows that IOC officials are corrupt and always have been, but I can’t believe that they don’t Even bother anymore to hide it, they must feel untouchable. I hope that countries will boycott the 2032 games if there won’t be a fair process to determine the host. Sadly this won’t happen though ...