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IBU Youth/Junior World Championships 2017 to Take Place in Osrblie, Slovakia http://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/ibu-youth-junior-world-championships-2017-to-take-place-in-osrblie-slovakia The venue for BMW IBU World Cup 8 will be announced soon.

Anastasiya Kinnunen (Dubarezava) left the Belarusian team after Pokljuka - she's pregnant Domracheva will come back in Oberhof as planned.

Iryna Starykh is listed in the start list of the Russian competitions tomorrow. Alexandr Loginov won the individual race. Meanwhile Glazyrina won't start which heated rumours about her doping ban.

^ Everything is unofficial so far. It's between Holmenkollen and Kontiolahti. Raubichi are in but they have no chances. Our male team wanted Almaty (after Universiade), our female team roots for Holmenkollen. ps. FIS suspended 6 Russian skiers (including Legkov & Vylegzhanin). All of them took part in Sochi Olympics (4 medals). I guess all these cases in other winter sports will influence biathlon too.

http://www.biathlonworld.com/news/detail/ibu-press-release-extraordinary-ibu-executive-board-meeting Russia was stripped of the World Cup in Tyumen and Youth/Junior World Championship in Ostrov. There's only 1 biathlete from the local level among doping offenders. 30 (!) biathletes who took part in international competitions. 2 biathletes were suspended, the rest 29 wait for IBU's decision. According to recent interviews at least 1 of those 2 took part in the OG in Sochi, the main competitors for hosting the World Cup event are Holmenkollen & Kontiolahti.

The media close to their officials say it's Starykh, Loginov & Iourieva from those who've already been caught. Olga Zaitseva, Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova from those who've already retired. Glazyrina & Shumilova from the active biathletes. + numerous local biathletes who've never competed internationally.

Out of nowhere. Valj Semerenko is training in Pokljuka... with the main team. In a bib, lol. Trainers planned that she will return in January. Wondering if she's ready.

Official info: Valya Semerenko will skip this season. After numerous continuous diseases (it started 1 year ago) she's going to a health resort and she will join the team in spring. It seems Pidhrusna's come back inspired her and she chose do not end her career.

Direct quote: "It's not my first summer championship so I don't think it will leave some psychological trace on the end of the season. We end the summer season and begin preparing for winter from scratch. It's totally different things, especially when we have only a few top sportsmen here..." Not disrespectful at all. Not being hypocrite like certain biathletes who say that they love everyone [/end of gossip] Almost all best biathletes skipped this event. There's nothing bad about saying that. If somebody's star disease is hurt, she's sorry. Moreover she was very sober by rating her own performance - she sets for herself enormous standards... like when she didn't end the season after losing consciousness/having heart problems right during the race. Or training with a broken foot etc. Or competing & winning Olympic gold when her husband was wounded at the Maidan events 2 years ago. Diva, disrespectful? It's definitely not about her. Btw, she praised Kaisa and said an obvious thing once again: "she was unbeatable today".

Ukrainians are competing here after hard trainings/physical stress so this championship is a part of the training plan and our adult team (and some girls) weren't supposed to show good results. And they weren't good even despite all the gold medals. Pidhrushna said that she has no emotions after the victory and it's not valuable comparing to winter biathlon, no serious competitors except Kaisa so she's pretty sober about that.

Women's 100 m Hurdles Oksana Shkurat - 12.96

https://www.directathletics.com/results/track/46652_2885521.html + he's got 8.20 (+2.0) at the Sunshine Invitational on May 2 but I can't find the official results.

Valya denied info about her pregnancy She's not with the girls because she's recovering from constant health problems. She plans to come back in January.

Men's 200 m Salem Eid Yaqoob - 20.34 Men's 110 m Hurdles Damian Czykier - 13.35 Men's Long Jump Ankit Sharma - 8.19 Mohammad Arzandeh - 8.16 Women's 100 m Iman Isa Jassim - 11.26 Rima Kashafutdinova - 11.31 Women's 200 m Olga Safronova - 22.95 Srabani Nanda - 23.07 Women's 100 m Hurdles Olena Yanovska - 13.00 Women's Discus Throw Subenrat Insaeng - 61.12

Men's Discus Throw Mykyta Nesterenko - 66.23 Women's Javelin Throw Hanna Hatsko-Fedusova - 62.02

^ intrigued woohoo!

I remember these guys: http://www3.biathlonworld.com/en/press_releases.html/do/detail?presse=1005

Women's 400 m Elina Mikhina - 52.09 Women's 100 m Hurdles Valentina Kibalnikova - 13.00 Women's Triple Jump Elena Panturoiu - 14.33

^ another reason to cheer for Brazil)) More boys & girls in the biathlon family Merkushina was included in the Olympic group. She's training with all the girls now as we speak. Of course it doesn't mean she gets selected in the end but she has a chance. I believe that Pidhrushna, Varvynets, Merkushina & Bondar will improve their performance next season. Not sure about Dzhima. Thanks to Uros they went through a medical checkup in Slovenian & German clinics. Pidhrushna had a surgery on her nose (proper breathing is crucial for biathlon/skiing), Dzhima got confirmation of her asthma (not that kind that allows enhancing meds legally like certain biathletes ) & given proper meds, Valya was helped as well ... as we can see very successfully.

Men's Triple Jump Artem Bondarenko - 16.90 Dzmitry Platnitski - 16.90 Maksim Nesterenka - 16.85

^ 2 (or 4) biathlon babies)) Speaking about dads. Vita's hubby is a futsal player & Valya's hubby is a ski coach. So the chances to become a good sportsman are pretty high As for Korea. Girls are getting used without Valya. She had a very horrible season so basically they had to work on their own. + They both want to come back (Vita officially in January, Valya in 2017/2018 season most def). Vita used to train while being pregnant, as well as Valya. ps. Judging from the training camp pics coaches want to break that rock teach Yana Bondar how to shoot If this happens we aren't gonna worry about Valj. + there's Ira Varvynets, Nadya Byelkina, Anastasia Merkushina. Wondering if Abramova comes back I hope not or stays in Russia with her husband (Lapshin). In a 2 years there can be a good competition for both - Vita & Valya))

Valj Semerenko is also pregnant Vita & Valj are working on our future relay team

Women's Triple Jump Natallia Viatkina - 14.22 Women's Pole Vault Irina Yakoltsevich - 4.50 ps. Alina Talay (100m Hurdles) ... 12.71 with the headwind of -1.5 m/s Ivan Tsikhan (hammer throw) .... 80.04

The Kyiv's Championship brought more questions than answers for long jump. Now it's 5 girls with standards, 3 clear competitors for the 3rd place in the team with the same results + this is the 1st time in our history when 2 guys are going to compete in 200 m. Men's 200 m Ihor Bodrov - 20.49 Women's Long Jump Anna Lunyova - 6.73 Hryshytyna finally "confirmed" her previously gotten standard and landed at 6.71.

Men's 200 m Davron Atabaev - 20.50 Men's 400 m Hurdles Dmitriy Koblov - 49.39 Women's 200 m Olga Safronova - 23.05 Nigina Sharipova - 23.17 Kazakh women's 4x100 relay team - 43.18