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4 minutes ago, LowerSaxony said:

Found at the IBU points list:

Is that actually a French name?!

It is. He's the first bearing this name I'm aware of though. 

3 minutes ago, LowerSaxony said:

I think another reallocation place will be available if Germany stays in 3rd position. I doubt that Germany will nominate more than 5 men (unless Zobel having a fantastic pursuit race on Sunday). Sweden will overtake Germany for 3rd place if and only if they win the relay on Saturday (which is totally possible, esp. without Norwegian A team) and Germany finishing 3rd or worse.

Same applies for France I reckon 

I don't see us sending Perrot just to sit there and undergo daily PCR tests, even more while the Junior World Champs are taking place Nor any other IBU Cp athlete in fact.

11 minutes ago, prso1000 said:

Enough to take over ROU for now, but not enough to take over KAZ. 
Now it depends on Wright 🤷🏻‍♂️

i think 6-7 seconds missing 😂

The second Romanian was not even in the top 10 anyway ...

8 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Scored 281 points today ..

 

Unbelievable...just unbelievable

At least you're not Japanese 

Sad for Strolia ... so close 

On 1/8/2022 at 12:28 PM, dcro said:

Yeah, but they revised the qualification system. Max 7 results count.

 

https://www.ibsf.org/images/documents/downloads/OWG_-_YOG/Beijing_2022_-_Qualification_System_-_Bobsleigh_V1.6.pdf

And now she's not in Saint-Moritz 

Don't know why but that's obviously playing with fire ... only 6 results when other have 7. Only  Vannieuwenhuyse and  Kim can overtake her. They're both in Europa Cup, where there's pretty much no competition. The Belgian needs a top 6 to get ahead, consider it done, the Korean a victory With a 2nd place they would be even, with an even best performance, and an even last performance Anyway, supporting Germany for once 

Despite a pedestrian start (0.3 slower than Galea, 1 full second slower than Nikitina), Torres Quevedo manages to beat the Maltese by two seconds  The real race is on Friday though, the last shall be first 

Biathlon will be the key sport. First of all because both France and Sweden can win a huge amount of medals in it, then because it's probably the most unpredictable and open to surprises sport of the Games. France could get 10 medals in biathlon, but could also get 3, same applies for Sweden. France have higher chances though, since our team is stronger overall. Pretty much every French biathlete can win a medal individually, not the case for the Swedes.

9 minutes ago, hckošice said:

+ Sweden can medal in M hockey and Freestyle Skiing, France behind quite a lot of almost secured medals in Alpine Skiing, Biathlon and Freestyle Skiing, can win max 2-3 medals in Cross-Country and maybe a medal in Ice Dance

Ice Dance is not a maybe, that's a probably. Probably gold by the way. 3 in Cross-country would be a maximisation of the chances, manageable but still hard to attain. Snowboard-cross is also a great supplier (between 1 and 3).

31 minutes ago, dcro said:

Wow,  Shannon Galea will compete in St. Moritz this week.

 

Unique chance to see a run 10 seconds slower than the leading ones.

Keep an eye on  Ana Torres Quevedo

Finally, only 7 races taken into account so the current IBSF rankings are pretty much set in stone. 

Men :  Doyle needs 87 points to overcome  Mirambell, i.e top 17 in Saint-Moritz.

Women :  Stratton needs 99 points to overcome  Bessard, i.e top 15 in Saint-Moritz. 

Paradoxically,  Terauda only gets the 10th/11 individual quota, but Latvia (Zunte) is only 4 points away from stealing the second quota to  Deas. If the later finishes next race on her sled, GB will obtain two starters easily though. 

210 points today for China. I think the job's done (almost). They will probably get 4 women and the relay in a month. 

I think our Slovak friend will stop ranting after this 

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yeah, but they revised the qualification system. Max 7 results count.

 

https://www.ibsf.org/images/documents/downloads/OWG_-_YOG/Beijing_2022_-_Qualification_System_-_Bobsleigh_V1.6.pdf

Oh thanks  Changes a lot then.

30 minutes ago, dcro said:

Best 7 results count so that's probably why.

There are 8 WC races so 8 results counted 

Don't know why but the French girls decided to skip both Winterberg and Sigulda, or in fact any race at any competition during these weeks. So in the end they will only score 7 races, as opposed to 8 for the others. Qualification is manageable in both disciplines but with only one extra race it would have been a no-brainer ...

Would have put China in the top 10 for the SMR with Chu/Cheng but Yan and Meng is a very strange strategic choice. The second Chinese man could bury their chances in the MR.

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Baloga today probably buried our chances to have a Relay in Beijing...

 

 

Due to the poor result of Baloga, our team gained today only a few points in the Olympic qualification. The big problem is that although definitely dropped out of the fight for the Olympics since they were not here at full strength and send their best athletes to the IBU Cup to Osrblie, scored exceptionally today, experiencing their best races in many years  - Zahkna finished 17th with 0+0 and others took 57th and 65th places.  

 

That earned them a incredible 284 points !!! and are now only 54 points behind us 4 races before the end of the Road to the Olympics. Today they even erased 138 points from our gap.  If they overtook us, (which is unfortunately very realistic, given they have their strongest events XR and XSR to come) only Šima and Bartko could probably start at the Olympics, and Šimon is yet the last above the cutting IBU points line.

 

The WOG Qualification ranking is here.

But Japan is still behind so if only one of the two overtake Slovakia then you're still in. And Slovakia has got more leeway to score in the mixed relays : both have a 80 points best in the XR but Estonia has a best of 110 points in the XSR when Slovakia has 70 points. Considering Fialkova's form a good single mixed could do it. 

1 hour ago, rybak said:

After first good shooting from Guńka he had 3 misses in second shooting and qualification to pursuit seems to be impossible right now. But still he performed already better than Szczurek and Guzik.

But fellow IBU Junior Cup athlete Zawół has done better and will make the pursuit 

German mafia. Hopefully no win for them here.

10 minutes ago, rybak said:

I see that our leader of Junior Ranking, Jan Guńka will race tomorrow in Oberhof too, I hope that he will manage to be in top40! 

That seems a bit optimistic. Qualifying for the pursuit is a respectable goal at first. 

It seems  has its first ever WC starter : 19 y.o Enkhsaikhan Enkhbat !

Just now, RobtheAggie said:

The only way that happens is if either Austria, France of Czech Republic put up stupid money for advertising.  Outside of that, Germany keeps both weeks.

In a way, the introduction of Decathlon as a sponsor marks a French investment 

Concerning Austria, Hochfilzen is already a German venue, as is Antholz btw.

Just f*ck 'em.

Hopefully Oberhof won't organize any World Championships in a near future 

10 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

It's rational for a small country to concentrate a limited budget on a few sports.  Cycling, sailing, rowing, equestrian, canoeing,....they get a lot of medals for a 5m population country.   Apart from Alice Robinson, their main hopes are in the freestyle events, so....biathlon is not like athletics or swimming where you can chuck a few people in and hope for the best, it's an expensive commitment.  Similar situation years back with Jakov Fak & . 

But Wright mainly trains in Europe and I don't think his federation provide him that much support, probably financially. But we're not even talking about investing a lot of money in biathlon, we're talking about not putting a spoke in an promising athlete's wheels, more so since this athlete could easily represent another country with more room for improvement.