JonPhi

Unvaccinated or not recovered athletes are not allowed to start at the World Cup in Antholz: https://www.nordicmag.info/biathlon-les-non-vaccines-a-la-covid-19-ne-pourront-pas-aller-a-antholz-0109/

She'll probably be nominated in any case. Skottheim is too slow and there is no one else. Brorrson gets 5th place and she gets 6th place. Since Magnusson and Persson are far away, a start in the sprint is not even unrealistic.

Petra has not really excelled in giant slalom this season. Otherwise, it's nice to see other names in front. Hector, Worley and Bassino already have a gap, but behind them it will be really exciting. Unfortunately, it is hardly transmitted, because biathlon comes parallel.

Robinson it is too much! She is a little bit like Noel.

Mixed Relay https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/2122/BT/SWRL/CP05/MXRL/C51B2_v0.pdf Single Mixed Relay https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/2122/BT/SWRL/CP05/MXSR/C51B2_v0.pdf

Guigonnat - Desthieux - Bescond - Simon Claude - Chevalier Bouchet so no Jacquelin, Fillon Maillet and Braisaz-Bouchet

Typical fog and wind

Benjamin Weger covid-positive also in Isolation.

Osrblie has no snow most of the time. Even now at the IBU Cup everything is brown and green around. The World Cups in the past were regularly cancelled due to lack of snow. And if places like Nove Mesto or Le Grand Bornand don't get any space every year despite the masses of spectators, then it becomes difficult for such places. Otepää is now a newcomer.

Rescheduled to Schladming .

In Germany, unfortunately, you can not say in general how long you have to be in isolation or quarantine. The decision depends on the local health department. A distinction is made as to whether you have to be in isolation (affected yourself) or in quarantine (contact person). From the quarantine you can usually test yourself freely from the isolation not before the expiry of the ordered time. And now it should also be differentiated with which variant one is infected, Omikron or Delta. Therefore, one can only rely on the statements of the health office of the district and according to the information of the German television, they have ordered 14 days of isolation.

Sprint Men https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/2122/BT/SWRL/CP05/SMSP/C51A_v1.pdf Sprint Women https://ibu.blob.core.windows.net/docs/2122/BT/SWRL/CP05/SWSP/C51A_v1.pdf

14 days in a hotel room? You lose all your form and then he only has 2 weeks left...

Latypov will also miss Ruhpolding because he has to go into a 14-day quarantine. Olympics are also quite over with that.

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Zagreb is a nice city, there were some nice pictures before the race

Incidence of 7600. Some ski party’s there …

There should be 30 in the finish, then one should probably drive a second run

Women‘s Slalom in Flachau is cancelled due to Covid-19.

According to Frank Wörndl, the race is probably not insured and therefore they want to push it through at all costs ...

Eduard Latypov covid-19 positive will miss Oberhof. All other tests yesterday were negative.

I don't think so. Because this venue has much tradition and the athletes receive the most prize money in slalom, so the athletes would also commit to it. And also the date is usually during the week, so there would be no direct competitors who would then hold races. And the last few years the races were held in reasonably acceptable conditions.

Anything else would be a big surprise … Especially in the Men‘s team is Halfvarsson by far the best Swedish men at the moment. And also Kalla is safely in the top 8 …

In addition, a note: The route plans for this year and the world championship next year have been slightly changed again. The so-called 'Henkel loop' will be run in every race from now on. Therefore the 'Birx-Steig' will be omitted in the Single Mixed Relay.

Since last night, temperatures have dropped below zero. Then the artificial snow was applied, and the first fresh snow fell tonight. Today and Friday there should be a lot of snow again. Basically, however, it is better to run on artificial snow. At the Olympics, we also have only artificial snow.