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Fourcade losing 20 seconds in 2 kilometers. 

If my calculations are correct, Bolshunov needs 56 points to win the overall title.

5 races to go

550 points to grab

Guess he'll have to go to North America, Klaebo has 350 points for sure I'll say.

Krueger v Bolshunov, ditched the entourage at 47.7 km.

Come on, wind, get in.

Italian catastrophy again.

Lots of misses, I like it.

Can't believe Mike and Pat from Eurosport have said (multiple times) that this is the greatest ever biathlon season.

But Boe - QFT - Fourcade about to make it same as always.

Cheng retakes the lead!

Nice job, Ole.

Cheng takes the lead!

This just might be the worst combined race I have ever seen.

There are times when I'd be happy if AC was just a dead discipline, today it might be such a day, as when slalom comes we'll be sure of winner after 2 minutes.

SG is more of a GS, and it lasts as long.

Stupid discipline (well, today at least!).

Ebba Anderson with a (small) chance to actually win ahead of Johaug.

EDIT: +3.4 at the end. Shame.

At the same time, very nice that Johaug didn't win with 30+ seconds or something like that.

Well done, Ortlieb.

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

At which point in the race, do you know?

Found one instance, a Russian is doing it at 26:35 of ES player ambient sound recording. Just after 5.0 km checkmark in race. Seen it with a different athlete as well, but really no idea where in race.

I noticed multiple athletes were doing something with their skis, pulling one over the other, not sure how to explain it properly in English...it's a motion like sharpening something, like a sword. Poorly waxed? If anyone finds some news, I'm really interested what happened with Bolshunov, was it really just tiredness?

Jaq the Bø Killer.

Yaaaaaawn.

For a "high" we need a darn blizzard. 

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All this happened because of Kasperovich’s accreditation which was issued for another person. The IBU suspected that he is hiding under another name and supplies me with doping before races. These are just groundless suggestions, I really have no words to describe what has happened,” Loginov said.

 

“They checked all my clothes, everything including wheels on my suitcase. I told them you may check everything, but seizing my phone and laptop is really beyond my understanding, because now I cannot even contact my family,” the biathlete said adding that he would like to be with his wife as soon as possible.

 

“Recent events forced Alexander to withdraw from the race,” Russian Biathlon team coaching staff said on Sunday.

https://www.rt.com/sport/481505-alexander-loginov-pulls-out-mass-start/

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

Catch? They dropped him and that went quite convincingly  

At the time I was talking about he recovered a few seconds and was just 7-8 behind.

Got an answer for that very quickly...nope.

Can Bolshunov at least catch that group of Norwegians? Would save a day a bit for him.

Looks like another Norwegian podium. Bolshunov looks dead! Pal took 40 seconds out of him in first 5k and took the lead. Others closing in too.