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il y a 3 minutes, Maxim Fastovsky a dit :

 

Well Baker was gone most of the season last year and they still did better, and sure there are the 2 players that played with the 15's in the world cup, i guess they'll come next round? hopefully next round will be better, after all fiji and australia also missed one quarter final this season.

Folau Niua is the real playmaker and he's injured, don't know when he's coming back. Pinkelman and Iosefo were at the 15's WC, i reckon they will be back next month 

il y a 7 minutes, Maxim Fastovsky a dit :

Really bad start from USA in the first 2 tournaments of the season. Maybe shows that last year was a fluke, hopefully it will be better next month, however not one win against a major team is a problem.

 I don't think it was a fluke, it just tends to show that without some key players the USA are far less dangerous and that having two speedsters is no guarantee

Il y a 2 heures, heywoodu a dit :

Or how often do you see the official organizing committee spelling even the IOC abbreviation in their own language? Then again, it's France, one can be surprised they even have an (somewhat broken) English tweet on this  

Well, settle for it, one can argue that one official language is more than enough to give informations 

Merkushyna winning the qualifications, how surprising 

M... has been the code for Macedonia for a little while now

Moldova = MDA

Mongolia = MGL 

il y a 45 minutes, heywoodu a dit :

 

How do you see that? A one minute sprint, shoot prone, one minute sprint, shoot standing, one minute sprint to the finish?  

At least a 1km loop so more like 2 or 3 minutes depending on the circuit 

Speaking of super-sprint, I hope they change the format of super-sprint to reproduce the cross-country sprint model 
 

il y a 14 minutes, heywoodu a dit :

Better a good one man army than no army at all  

Sure 

One is exactly the number of ice rink we don't have 

Very encouraging result from Loubineaud again 

The new Contin, the one man army, what a pity 

One very interesting result is the 22nd place of Cheng Fangming  , at a time when China doesn't seem to have good male prospects heading for their Olympics, he's back from 4 years out of the circuit and get a very decent first appearance in the WC.

Good shooting (18/20) and, despite what we may think at first, promising performance on the skis : 33th course time +3.05, beating the likes of Eliseev, Dale, Guigonnat, Samuelsson (and we know you might exceed a certain speed threshold to hope for top 20 and further). Nonetheless, like his fellow countrywomen, too much time lost at the range (92nd range time).

Fabien Claude will get a fine for his poor performance

Guigonnat will be suspended 20 years 

il y a 6 minutes, Bohemia a dit :

I have to go now so I will miss the end can the standings stay like that?

Very possible

WTF 

il y a 44 minutes, Werloc a dit :

Hoegberg is two points away from leading the IBU cup. Can't wait for her to not get start in the world cup this entire season AGAIN. FFS

 

No no, you misspelled Oeberg  Which one do you want ? 

Aymonier 

WTF no penalty for Kelsey Mitchell despite a clear lane infringement 

Not very fair and again a OQT in France 

But I will not complain, maybe the little help we need to get to Tokyo 

il y a 1 minute, Benolympique a dit :

Belgium will not be present in Australia? So we're going to end up in front

I think you don't get it ... only the 3 best results count. Belgium will get the points for being 2nd in HK, given the teams in Cambridge and Brisbane I'm quite sure the French won't perform that well so huge gap to be expected 

I've really tried to understand the principle of having already qualified athletes/athletes that cannot qualify to a olympics QUALIFYING tournament ... but I just can't get it 

Great manoeuvre from Belgium, they get a 2nd place in the women team pursuit with a very weak field and earn a lot of point to go past France ...  

Very good news 

9th course time for  Cheng, 50s from Andersen and Rastorgujevs 

He has missed the 3 last seasons 

The problem with this format is that there is no weighting according to the results or the competitivness. A 3rd place in 4.25 with 4 opponents weighs the same as a 3rd place in 4.16 with 10 opponents ... 

à l’instant, Benolympique a dit :

but it's stupid, because belgium will earn points for the women's pursuit, to believe that the federation does not want girls to go to the Olympics

Look, they will be in Cambridge, they cannot participate to each and every competition. Nonetheless, looking at the entries it seems that the concurrence is less important in HK so maybe not the greatest move indeed

à l’instant, Benolympique a dit :

France will not be present in pursuit in Hong Kong?

Nope, only men sprinters 

And you can see that the entries are only provisional since some athletes listed will not be there for sure