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Meaning this will end up being the perfect recipe for having an IBU Cup-like event as the World Cup Final. Great.

Which means the Nations Ranking and so the Olympic quota places coming from there will all be known after the world championships (unless those World Cups are replaced of course)

Cool to see Soldier Hollow and Canmore on it again...not very cool to have the World Cup finals there, unless something mad happens and all of a sudden the atmosphere will be Oslo-like (which I doubt). Lenzerheide though

Yeah it won't happen, and even if it could (in terms of ice), I really, really hope it won't. Elfstedentocht without spectators, yeah, no thanks.

With the first quarter of the run as exception, I don't think I've ever seen a more boring super-G course. Dear lord what a shitshow.

Just now I realize the world championships still have this insane format in the 500m...

Meanwhile Sven Kramer has ended his season after his race in which he couldn't even come close to a decent performance due to a back injury.

So close to finally getting a gold medal

Meanwhile it's being an excellent winter here in terms of series we've been watching sind mid-December: - Finished Lucifer (seasons 4, 5 and the last few episodes of 3) - Watched The Outsider start to finish - Watched Barbaren start to finish - Now watching Snowpiercer All very enjoyable so far

Well, scratch the two Austrian races. @brunamoura was supposed to be travelling on Monday morning, but due to the immense amounts of snow and ice everywhere the train services in both the Netherlands and Germany have seen major disruptions everywhere from Sunday morning on. Things are finally getting a little better now, trains to Germany are going again, but it's not yet possible to realistically get all the way to Austria. We have good hopes that it will be possible on Sunday, so nearly a week delay. Hopefully the World Cup will still be possible, and at least the two Austrian races of this week are by far the least important.

Yes, let's take the tweets serious of dozens of random people who have two friends and their dog as followers.

For some reason I fear Roest might have been going too deep in the previous months (again), although at least this time there were fewer competitions, so he might have energy left

Awesome, all real problems in the US have apparently been solved so the focus can now go on nonsense like this

Not a fan of movies, definitely a fan of Netflix/series

Nothing interesting for the women I think, Chile will get 1 point and good chance Liechtenstein won't get much more than that. Kazakhstan might move up a position, depending on how good they are (their juniors weren't that impressive in the end).

Thanks. First movie I've ever even heard of is ranked 21st there

Oh, I thought movies were nominated for those too

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Mixed Relay 4x7.5km Day 1 February 10th, 2021 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Men's 10km Sprint Day 2 February 12th, 2021 Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin Any Other French Athlete Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jakov Fak Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete x Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 3 February 13th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Marketa Davidova Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss x Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 4 February 14th, 2021 Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin x Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe x Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Sebastian Samuelsson Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete Women's 10km Pursuit Day 4 February 14th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss x Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff Any Other Norwegian Athlete Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's 15km Individual Day 5 February 16th, 2021 Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Athlete Representing Russian Biathlon Federation Hanna Oeberg x Linn Persson Any Other Swedish Athlete Yuliia Dzhima Any Other Athlete x x Men's 20km Individual Day 6 February 17th, 2021 Simon Eder Quentin Fillon Maillet Antonin Guigonnat Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe Sturla Holm Laegreid Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov x Any Other Athlete Representing Russian Biathlon Federation Any Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete x x Mixed Single Relay 6km + 7.5km Day 7 February 18th, 2021 Austria Belarus Canada Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2021 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Finland France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation x Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 9 February 21th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser x Dzinara Alimbekava Marketa Davidova Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff x Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Other Norwegian Athlete Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete x Any Other Athlete Men's 15km Mass Start Day 9 February 21th, 2021 Simon Eder Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin x Any Other French Athlete Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Sturla Holm Laegreid Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jakov Fak Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete x [/hide]

At least the last two times it was women - men, didn't bother to check further To be honest, I like when they mix the order up. As far as I'm concerned, mixed relays at the highest level (so WC, WCH and OG) should always be women - men followed by men - women - followed by women - men and so on. Not much about equality, it's just more fair to have a roughly 50/50 balance in the order in an event where things like final sprints are a thing - and so always having the same order always benefits countries who have stronger men/women (depending on who's always last). The exact distances have changed quite often recently if I'm not mistaken, it seems like they've been trying it out for a while now. I'm fairly sure I've seen mixed relays with equal distances before.

Great, so time trial handlebars during regular flat stages it is..

The shortlists for the main awards come later?

Now I can't see her hidden content anymore, thanks !

For some reason, I am able to see this post by @brunamoura, even though it is 100% within hide /hide blocks. I checked both her and my posts in that thread and they are exactly the same (other than the names in the teams of course, I mean the hide blocks are identical). Also, on her account my post is not visible, whereas on my account her post is visible. What's going on here? Right now the content of that post is just the word 'test' (inside the hide blocks), because of the issue of not wanting to show the team

[hide] Nation Captains NOR JT Bø NOR M Olsbu Røiseland Nation Women SWE H Öberg CZE M Davidova RUS E Pavlova BLR D Alimbekava Nation Men SWE S Samuelsson AUT S Eder GER E Lesser SUI B Weger [/hide]

Warmup tonight and the Daytona 500 to kick off the year for real on Sunday already