JonPhi

Bol and Klaver want to double up!

Tomorrow also some biathletes will be in action at „Lysebotn Opp“ Women: Men:

Here is the Full-Line Up for Ruhpolding. 28 Countries, but the two big nations Norway and France are missing:

800m Women: Round 1 02.08 Repechage 03.08 Semi Final 04.08 Final 05.08 4 times 800m in 4 days, really?

Sadly it’s Wind assisted

Could be the last championships with transgender and DSD women: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/athletics-transgender-women-dsd-seb-coe-semenya-b2128079.html

And Jamaica falls victim to the bad changes. And for Germany a very surprising bronze after Asher Smith is injured again.

Botswana was relegated to the men's 4x400m final!

will have Kemba Nelson on lead-off leg not Briana Williams. That’s a huge surprise!

Really?

But then Ukraine would also have to be disqualified to get into the final.

In the Dutch media they also write that it would be due to disability of the French woman. However, it is due to the wrong rod recording. This is also stated in the official document at World Athletics: WA Rule TR24.6 - Fault at recovering a dropped baton

missed out by 0.01 to !

Very disappointing! Maybe miss out both 4x4 in the final!

Slower than Switzerland is very weak indeed. At least Kaczmarek could have run here as well.

The baton may well fall down. However, Klaver should have picked it up and not the third runner. Therefore the justified disqualification.

What are the substitution rules in the 4x100m? In the mixed relay only one athlete was allowed to be substituted for the final. Jamaica wants to bring Fraser, Jackson and Thompson for the final. Can they still do that?

The organizer called it so in the German press. I don't know whether teams will follow. But I can't think of any spontaneously. Russia and Belarus are blocked. And I mean the final entries for the nations are always about 4 weeks before.

It's already a success, after there was nothing at all in London and Tokyo. Let's see if she still run the relay at all, I have some concerns so no.

Countries for Summer World Championships in Ruhpolding:

Fraser looked anything but confident. Thompson was completely unimpressed, very relaxed.

Unfortunately, the Nordic combinations is going downhill. If you consider that 10-15 years ago there were still very strong teams or athletes from the USA, France, Italy or Finland. USA and Italy have completely disappeared from the scene. And France and Finland have if at all single good results times by Herola or Muhlethaler for example. But far away from what was once. The French don't even have a coach at the moment, because the combination hardly plays a role in the federation and not much money for a coach has been calculated in. In front, there are actually only Norwegians, Germans, Austrians and possibly Japanese. But there is not much to see of internationality. No athletes from North America or the Eastern states who are competitive and in addition the ever decreasing competition from athletes from Central Europe such as France or Italy. In a certain way, one can question whether something is not going wrong in the combination and one should question the system and whether it makes sense to continue in this way.

No single Mixed relay in Biathlon

Some shocking news to me: • the IBU World Championships will no longer be included in the World Cup Total Score. Thus, there are no more World Cup points collected at World Championship events. This is in line with IBU’s general direction to make the World Championships a stand-alone flagship event • there will be no more dropped results in the World Cup Total Score. Every competition in the World Cup will count toward the Total Score • the point system for the Total Score and the Discipline Scores will be adjusted to increase the value between the top results ensuring that if athletes are forced to miss a race due to sickness they will still have the possibility of being able to win the Crystal Globes https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/carlsson-2022-biathlon-rules/7zLHlnECP6Ggp3VxDf1HQp

In the live results, Robert is back in the results. And very strong from Shelly