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Classic Fourcade. I'm not much of a fan of the guy, but dear Lord the man is impressive when he's on a mission like this. Insane.

Quiet, I've still got the other two to watch and have been avoiding the XC thread for a reason

German commentator: "No information yet about what happened with Kühn. Oh, Herbert, you have some information about it now?" Herbert: "Yes, he didn't hit the targets." Inside information

Johannes Kühn with the dreaded 5.

No, I like the pursuit as a race, no problem with that. The format shouldn't change, it just shouldn't be the case that BOTH the sprint and pursuit are awarded Olympic medals. About biathlon-specific events like the world championships or World Cup, I find it much less of a problem.

Campbell Wright keeps being on a roll and qualifies for the heats in the XC sprint

Yes! It's just bullshit.

Impressive race by Fialkova And what a show by Eckhoff, nothing to be done against that This is also why pursuit should be kicked out of the Olympic program (or sprint/pursuit should be one set of medals, but in any case it shouldn't be treated as two separate medal events)

Probably so they can be like "Let's not show it".

There's qualifiers to give everyone a chance to qualify, and there's a main tournament where we just don't really need teams who regularly lose matches by 10-15 goals on average, or more. Those teams should have been weeded out in the qualifiers.

Apparently this race is called the Schwalbe Classic (Schwalbe is the German word - also used in the Netherlands - for a 'fake fall/dive' in football) Caleb Ewan won by quite some margin.

Sadly that seems to be geoblocked.

And when you go (way) further back in time, you find the Dutch anthem where the main verse - the one that's generally sung - ends with "The King of Spain....I've always honoured"

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Oh well, the Dutch anthem has a boatload of verses, but generally one is supposed to be played and that's more than enough...even so, I've seen plenty of sports events where it was just cut off halfway through the only verse they were supposed to play It's like you'd play the French anthem and go like: Allons enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé! Contre nous de la tyrannie L'étendard sanglant est levé. L'étendard sanglant est levé: Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Mugir ces féroces soldats? Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes! Aux armes, citoyens, Formez vos bataillons. Marchons! Mar.......and fade away.

I believe that much more in a 4x100m - where relay-specific things like handovers make a serious difference - than in something long like a biathlon or cross-country relay. Sure, pressure and all.

I guess we're gonna have to agree to disagree. With the current line-up and what they've been showing for a while, I personally just find it disappointing France hadn't won for so long. Good thing they finally did, it was very much about to happen any moment obviously.

Oh they most definitely won't I don't think we'll ever see Pyeongchang again neither, the world championships there showed how dead it is.

Yes, that's a whole lot of big disappointments. Although especially this season losing seems like a shock when you've got half of the top-8 biathletes in the world in your team.

With the quality they've got, every non-win is a big disappointment indeed.

Like two weeks ago when in what, his 8th ever competition or something, he nearly got into the top-10 in the World Cup already?

Wait until we get to Beijing. And duh, I didn't name Bagnis 2026 Olympic champion for nothing earlier this month

I know Labastau was really impressive last year in Minsk, but damn, Belarus is doing quite something here.

It depends on the moment. When I'm visiting a World Cup or something, I like all these songs basically