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Cogne (ITA) has prevailed over Ulricehamn (SWE) and will replace the World Cup in Nove Mesto (CZE). This means that a total of 10 World Cup races are planned in Italy next season.
 

The IBU has announced some stupid rules for the new season. Among other things, the top 15 in the overall World Cup will start with a 60-second delay with bib numbers 42 to 70. 
If there are low conditions again, this is a huge disadvantage for the athletes with the high numbers.

https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/rule-changes-2024-2025-season/4Y2Ck3I9b3oprKBerFIlyQ

And in the Nordic events, they were very creative again... yet they once again copied the same crap from the previous games. For the cross-country skiers, the first week is completely packed, so not everyone competed in every event, and the entire second week consisted only of team sprints and the 50 km race …

Unfortunately, there were no night events for the Alpine skiers in Bormio, even though there were floodlights available.

12 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I would assume when cutting the team event from 4 to 2 athletes, at least countries can have two teams...otherwise it's going to be an epically empty field of athletes in the Nordic combined especially.

 

A maximum of three Nordic combined athletes per country are allowed to compete at the Olympics, so there is no possibility of fielding two teams. The field of participants has been reduced to 36 athletes.

35 minutes ago, dodge said:

 

The GB women on the other hand could win by a second!

Certainly not a second. But France, the Netherlands and Germany were only just behind and these relay teams can still add to their tally. And first they have to get through, that already went wrong in Munich.

4 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

the problem is that our best runner Thomas Jordier is out of Europe and maybe even the Olympics; hard to do without him

Jordier is their best runner? Never ... He didn't run at the World Championships last year either.

3 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

and Qualified

Germany has exchanged two athletes for the preliminary round (both men). Don't the rules stipulate that only one athlete may be changed? 

The first competitions are already listed in the venues description on the organizer's homepage, for example ...

Biathlon: Mixed Relay 08.02

Alpine: Downhill Women 07.02

Alpine: Downhill Men 08.02

Ski Jumping: 07.02

Cross Country Skiing: 07.02

https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/places/

There isn't a complete schedule yet, is there?

Dahlqvist is out 

Some updates from the IBU meeting:
- the Super Sprint will be deleted from all IBU race series
- the Mixed Relay will always be 4x6km in the future, no matter if women or men start

France will not take part in the Junior European Championships in Poland in February as the journey there would be too far and expensive.

https://www.nordicmag.info/biathlon-trop-loin-et-trop-cher-la-saison-prochaine-la-france-nira-pas-en-pologne-pour-la-junior-cup-1005/

Women

National Team

BRAISAZ-BOUCHET Justine – Douane / Club des Sports des Saisies (Savoie) – (A)
CHAUVEAU Sophie – Armée de Champions / Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) – (A)
CHEVALIER Chloé – Armée de Champions / CO des 7 Laux Grésivaudan (Dauphiné) – (A)
COLOMBO Caroline – Ski Club Mouthe (Massif Jurassien) – (A)
JEANMONNOT Lou – Armée de Champions / Olympic Mont d’Or (Massif Jurassien) – (A)
SIMON Julia – Douane / Club des Sports des Saisies (Savoie) – (A)

BOTET Paula – Armée de Champions / La Bressaude Section Ski (Massif des Vosges) – (B)
GUIGONNAT Gilonne – Ski Club Villard sur Boëge (Mont Blanc) – (B)

IBU-Cup Team

BENED Camille – Ski Club Chablais Nordic (Mont Blanc) – (B)
BENED Chloé – Ski Club Chablais Nordic (Mont Blanc) – (B)
BERTRAND Fany – Club des Sports de Méribel (Savoie) – (B)
BONDOUX Anaëlle – GUC Grenoble Ski (Dauphiné) – (B)
COUPE Camille – Club des Sports La Féclaz (Savoie) – (B)
JEANNIER Léonie – Ski Club Les Verrières – La Cluse (Massif Jurassien) – (B)
MICHELON Océane – Bauges Ski Nordique (Savoie) – (B)
RICHARD Jeanne – Les Gets Ski Compétition (Mont Blanc) – (B)
 

Men

National Team

CLAUDE Fabien – Armée de Champions / Basse sur Le Rupt Ski Nordique (Massif des Vosges) – (A)
FILLON MAILLET Quentin – Douane / Ski Club du Grandvaux (Massif Jurassien) – (A)
GUIGONNAT Antonin – Armée de Champions / Ski Club Morzine Avoriaz (Mont Blanc) – (A)
JACQUELIN Émilien – Douane / CS Nordique Villard de Lans (Dauphiné) – (A)
PERROT Éric – Armée de Champions / Ski Club Peisey-Vallandry (Savoie) – (A)

CLAUDE Émilien – Armée de Champions / Basse sur Le Rupt Ski Nordique (Massif des Vosges) – (B)
LOMBARDOT Oscar – Entente Sportive Saugette (Massif Jurassien) – (B)

IBU-Cup Team

BROUTIER Rémi – Bauges Ski Nordique (Savoie) – (B)
FONTAINE Paul – Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) – (B)
GENY Edgar – Ski Club Sallanches Tête Noire (Mont Blanc) – (B)
GUIRAUD POILLOT Théo – Ski Club Villard sur Boëge (Mont Blanc) – (B)
JEFFERIES Jacques – Les Gets Ski Compétition (Mont Blanc) – (B)
LEJEUNE Valentin – Basse sur Le Rupt Ski Nordique (Massif des Vosges) – (B)
MAHON Sébastien – Entente Sportive Saugette (Massif Jurassien) – (B)
MEUNIER Ambroise – Club des Sports La Féclaz (Savoie) – (B)
THIEVENT Lou – Ski Nordique Chartreuse (Dauphiné) – (B)

Da wären die Staffelquoten aber knapp bemessen. Normalerweise sind es ja mind. 6 Sportler für die 4x100 und 3 Sportler für die 4x400. Aber vielleicht werden Ersatzsportler ja nicht berücksichtigt in der Quote.

Hallo,

wie kommen denn in der Leichtathletik die nur 23 (46) Quotenplätze zur Stande? Im Rahmen der European Games findet in der Leichtathletik ja die Team-EM statt. Somit wird sich die Teamstärke eher im Bereich 55 befinden, sonst bekommt man gar nicht alle Disziplinen und vor allem keine Staffeln zusammen. 

The calendar for next season is published!

Oestersund (SWE)

Hochfilzen (AUT)

Lenzerheide (SUI)

Oberhof (GER)

Ruhpolding (GER)

Antholz-Anterselva (ITA)

WCH Nove Mesto na Morave (CZE)

Oslo-Holmenkollen (NOR)

Soldier Hollow (USA)

Canmore (CAN)

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

Sundling 2nd in a 20km race! And against Kalvå, nothing to do, amazing skiis, gliding faster than the others working hard staking behind

Rather, it was Hennig who slowed down the rest. That's why there was such a big gap in the first place.

20 minutes ago, Swewi said:

Ilar DSQ

Valnes was not disqualified in Trondheim either. At least Ilar won't care about the disqualification. 

Job done by Ribom. And Sundling too late again.

All eyes on Ribom, she need to help Dahlqvist.

But you can't punish Dahlqvist either, Hennig led to the situation.

8 hours ago, Swewi said:

And as she also did in Drammen in a course where it is almost impossible to keep a lead before the long downhill before last curve.

Yes, she has to go full speed immediately and outrun Skistad like in Planica. Otherwise she will face the same threat in Lahti.

29 minutes ago, Swewi said:

 Skistad hits her ski into Sundling a few meters to the finish and wins

Sundling also made the same tactical mistake as in Falun. Last year she managed it better, but probably the form is just not that good.

Will be no real City Sprint in Tallinn, the course will be on the Song Festival Ground. This is the venue:

They will be racing twice to the top. 
 

Course map: https://www.owc.ee/en/2023en/maps-23

11 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Good lesson for Grotian today. I think starting that late didn't help her + she probably didn't have great material + all the traveling probably didn't help either, but she saw that she still has ways to go. I think even at her peak she probably would have been 40-50 seconds behind the best. She made a big step forward from last season to this season. If she does that again before the start of the next season, she will hopefully be able to regularly fight for top 10 spots. Kebinger, Schneider, Preuß, Voigt are all unpredictable at this point. Somehow Germany always has the problem of a "youngish" athlete improving one year and then regressing the next year. For example i still didn't hear any explanation for what happened to Voigt this season. Schneider and Kebinger improved this season, but i wouldn't bet on them continuing to improve next season. I fear that Grotian might need to carry the german team already from next season onwards. Grotian and Kirkeeide are probably the most interesting talents going into next season. The progression of Vorobnikova and the young french women will also be interesting to follow.

In a way, Voigt confirms my thesis that it is a disadvantage for the German girls to train in the national team. You also say that most of the time there is no more step out of the junior level and this stagnation often happened recently with the transition to the national team with the training under Mehringer. Of the women who trained completely under him this season (Voigt, Hinz, Hettich, Weidel), it has to be said that the season was not that great and there was no hoped-for improvement. Denise Herrmann-Wick is officially part of the team, but she went her own way for a large part of the season's preparation and during the season she often did her training camps alone.
Kebinger and Schneider, who were the only convincing athletes this season besides Denise, trained under Peter Sendel and Andreas Birnbacher. That's why I have hope, in a way, that Grotian won't be sent to the national team right away, but can continue to develop independently under Kröll.
The second really successful lady of the last few years, Preuss, also often trained away from the national team.

And also on the men's side, the development under Kirchner is not really positive.

3 hours ago, Swewi said:

Huge margins in the womens sprint qualification

But tactically Sundling was a disaster in the final and only came second. She was correspondingly pissed off.