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Absolutely godawful snow conditions by the way. Tons of athletes fell in training today, weather doesn't help but also organizers seem to have no clue what they're doing. Honestly, 10/10 for the friendliness of people working there, but organizing something in an efficient and logical manner doesn't seem to be people's strong suit here Oh well, anyway, the fear among smaller teams is the track will be salted tonight, so it will be fine for the top athletes but destroyed even more for the ones after that. Expect lots of falls and athletes going down carefully.

I already told my dad there's 10 women he needs to pay extra attention to in terms of taking nice photos if possible, obviously including bib 95

Yeah, against Grunde Njøs. Wennemars' screams are part of Dutch collective memory.

Oh, seems like the fastest time counts @MHSN, sorry for the fake news

100%

Dutch TV just seemed to suggest his original time will be scrapped when he does the rerun @MHSN

This is a more than excellent question

He certainly can (although comparisons with Eric Heiden should never be made), depends on the tactics the rest will use in the mass start. Bring him to the finish for a sprint and you're fucked.

Wasn't he around in Beijing already? He is certainly a long established star already

Gold was expected and to be fair, not so many were expected before today (at most 1 or 2 if things went perfectly) but yeah, first medal for them.

Nope, no way Gonna be one of the slowest times of the day I think.

Just see who is good at what kind of race and then you can kind of predict the flow of the race

Gonna be 1:11 or so for Wennemars in the rerun. Meanwhile, beyond insane race for Stolz, as per usual

Wennemars will do the rerun, 19.56 CET.

At least, may even have been 1:06.7ish

Wennemars would absolutely be entitled to a rerun, but yeah, that's gonna have no chance at all.

Wennemars getting screwed out of an almost certain medal by a blind Chinese rookie, fantastic.

Yeah sure, that's ready in my mind

What a shame for the misses, first time in a long time I saw this amazing speed for Baiba Hopefully Saturday she has the same speed and can repeat the 9/10 she started with...

First medal in how long would this be for Bulgaria? And yes, we are in the biathlon thread, so biathlon only obviously

Did it really have to be Simon to take the win?

Surreal is for sure a correct way to describe it, the entire day From seeing her, of course (first while she was warming up and we saw each other for the first time there), to sitting waiting for the finals to begin and suddenly someone coming up and "you must be Bruna's family? I'm from the NOS and I am here for Bruna! I just talked to her already and she is coming here she said, now can I ask you a few things?" (NOS is the Dutch public broadcaster)

Today in a restaurant we met a bunch of Swedish fans who were watching another sport on their tablet while eating, we had some nice contact with them. On the grandstands, my dad asked the Swedish army behind us to cheer for Bruna and they certainly did! So far, 10/10 for the Swedes I've met here, keep it up

Next goal: top-20 in the team sprint, because if rules are followed, that should mean a nice extra bag of financial support ('Bolsa Atleta') for the next 1 year

And with that, threw my prediction for Bruna in the trash: I had said she'd finish 76th. She did. Then the two Koreans were DQ'ed and it became 74th.