Starting time women's race: 11:00CET

Start list women's race: here

Starting time men's race: 13:45 CET

Starting list men's race: here

Official international stream here (women's) and here (men's)

23/24 Brezno-Osrblie Podiums:

Women

Men

I keep running into a problem where the race replays are normally in potato quality. I often can't even read the athletes' names the resolution is so bad. Sometimes I will go back to the same video at a different time and it will be perfectly clear. It is not my internet speed, and no, I don't use WiFi.

I am wondering if it's an issue with Eurovision's content delivery servers? Some streaming sites you can use a VPN to change the content delivery server to get better quality. Anyone know if this is the case for Eurovision Sport? Or, is there a way to "force" HD playback?

Starting time women's race: 10:45 CET

Start list women's race: here

Starting time men's race: 14:30 CET

Starting list men's race: here

Official international stream here (women's) and here (men's)

23/24 Brezno-Osrblie Podiums:

Women

Men

I was quite sad when reading that Johannes would quit at the end of the season.
I made a graphic summarizing its career. These are all Johannes Boe's races in world cup, world championships and olympic games. Hope you'll enjoy it.

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Here is the corresponding legend:

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I wish we could have him on the commentary team for EurovisionSport. He is great & his voice is sooo relaxing!

He is on some of the current summary videos on the IBU YouTube account.

I am praising him hard as a BIG hint to the IBU!

I currently have Eurosport on my condo TV channels. But would be nice to be able watch EurovisionSport on my phone WITHOUT disastrous commentary 😬

Starting time women's race: 10:30 CET

Start list women's race: here

Starting time men's race: 14:30 CET

Starting list men's race: here

Official international stream here (women's) and here (men's)

23/24 Podiums:

Women

Men

What's the deal with the Eurovision Sport site often not having the first race at a venue? They don't have the women's sprint from Antholz or the Men's Individual from Ruhpolding, and I'm pretty sure that's happened with some earlier weekends. The weird thing is I have no problem finding their broadcast of that race on YouTube.

I think it would've interesting to see who else is going back-and-forth this season, so we can track their achievements across both sports. Anyone else doing both?

With today’s news that Eurosport UK is shuttering at the end of February, it seems biathlon will be movjng to the TNT Sports premium channel. Makes me wonder if perhaps this was related to Mike and Patrick’s commentary not being on Eurovision. Seems WBD is looking to squeeze a lot more money out if their sports holdings

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After JTB/Emilien and Ingrid/Hanna events, I just wanted to bring up some past situations that were resolved differently, and it seems somehow fair from the athlete's side.

I am posting an old thread about Domracheva/Wierer, where, in the last fight, Domracheva was chasing Wierer and accidentally stepped on her pole. She then slowed down and let Doro win the race. And the video from the press conference with the comments made.

It feels like JTB and Hanna could have at least considered doing the same. I believe this is the kind of behavior that is more human (p.s. instead of clamming on the finish line that "I deserve it"). Of course, there are many other factors like (Sturla, Simon, etc, chasing), but it is what it is

https://youtu.be/MW5KwaiwPHQ?si=e8Oe41kEDOlxf8zz

https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/7rqs84/sportsmanship_wierer_lost_her_ski_pole_before_the/

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Karoline Knotten summed it up well: these things happen. I am not going to contradict her nor try to blame either of these great athletes who have hugged it out by Ingrid's own social media post. However, I think the official story is missing how unfortunate it really was and did not reflect what I saw. I looked at the event frame-by-frame and post a few here. (You can go frame by frame with Youtube by pausing with K and then "." or ","). What I now see is not what I had first thought.

Screen 1 (01:06:30.3) Ingrid seems to be planting her pole on Hanna's boot or ski.

Screen 2 (01:06:30.6) Hanna is in an unnatural position and so is Ingrid with a very angle pole still on Hanna's shoe or ski.

Screen 3 (01:06:30.7) Hanna seems to be tumbling forwards and plants her skis very wide (some frames show her clearly off balance particularly if you go frame by frame).

Screen 4 (01:06:30.8) Hanna is already off balance and now, Ingrid has just made contact with Hanna's pole.

Screen 5 (01:06:31.0) Hanna has caught herself, but her trailing is unfortunately placed while Ingrid is very much off balance.

What is my question? To me, it seems the unfortunate cascade of events started with a pole unfortunately planted on Hanna's ski setting the whole thing in motion. What do you think? Does it seem more accurate than the IBU's two statements in the press release: "Oeberg’s ski pole accidentally tripped the Norwegian" and "Hanna’s ski pole hit Tandrevold’s knee just before the shooting range loop"?

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The last race before the World Championship was certainly a more chill affair than the penultimate one but let's take a look at some of the details more in depth.

Quite a lot of DNS today - the finns Seppala, Invenius and Hiidensalo, Vebjoern Soerum, Vytautas Strolia, croat Crnkovic, Adam Vaclavik and Vladimir Iliev.

STARTING ORDER FROM SPRINT:

1. Tarjei Boe
2. Sturla Holm Laegreid +0.4
3. Tommaso Giacomel +2.6
4. Martin Uldal +20.5
5. Dmytro Pidruchnyi +22.0
6. Jakov Fak +26.8
7. Vitezslav Hornig +27.6
8. Eric Perrot +29.3
9. Johannes Thingnes Boe +35.7
10. Jonas Marecek +39.2

FIRST LAP AND SHOOTING 1

Top 3, starting very close to each other, arrived at the shooting range together. Behind them a chasing group of 5 formed from Uldal, Pidruchnyi, Fak, Perrot and JTB. Hornig arrived alone couple seconds later and behind him a fast duo of chasing Ponsiluoma and Horn.

The first trio shot quick and clean, the first person to miss was bib 5, Pidruchnyi along with Eric Perrot. and Vitezslav Hornig The rest of the pursuing athletes went clean and Johannes quickly jumped into fourth followed by Jakov Fak and Martin Uldal. Fast Philip Horn with bib 11 jumped into seventh, while his first lap buddy Ponsiluoma was held back by a penalty loop.

1. Laegreid
2. Giacomel +0.9
3. Tarjei +2.4
4. JTB 24.6
5. Fak 25.3

SHOOTING 2

The norwegian duo at the top once again shot clean, but the home athlete Giacomel was held back by a penalty loop. Therefore he joined the clean shooting chasers - JTB, Fak and Uldal. Super fast Ponsiluoma also managed to catch up with the group before the range entrance but in his typical fashion, he was slowed down by 2 penalty loops which put an end to his medal efforts. Horn also missed a target and joined Eric Perrot about a minute behind the leaders.

1. Laegreid

2. Tarjei +2.7

3. JTB +18.0

4. Uldal +18.4

5. Fak +18.4

6. Giacomel +20.5

SHOOTING 3

The first chasing group managed to pretty much catch the norwegian duo at the top before shooting three, however for some this pursuit came with a price. While Giacomel profited and we found him back at the top along with still clean shooting Sturla and Tarjei, JTB had to go on two penalty loops. Veteran Jakov Fak was still clean at this point and left the range in fourth place. Uldal missed for the first time and left the range in some 20 seconds before JTB. Eric Perrot and Niklas Hartweg followed about 1:20 behind and then Qutentin Fillon Maillet who moved up to top 10 from 28th place.

1. Laegreid
2. Tarjei +1.4
3. Giacomel +2.7

4, Fak +12.4
5. Uldal +29.4

SHOOTING 4

The first trio from sprint, once again arrived to the range together. The statistics proved right in this case as the best shooter on the circuit, Sturla Holm Laegreid shot clean and skied away towards victory as his opponents both made one mistake. Giacomel was faster on the range and left couple of seconds in front of Tarjei. Jakov Fak had a chance to catch up with them but he also missed one shot, ruining his clean race. Martin Uldal, who once again showed his excellent shooting speed (16.5 seconds total) got ahead of him. About 5 seconds behind Fak followed JTB who was once again slowed down by a penalty loop.

1. Laegreid
2. Giacomel +17.9
3. Tarjei +22.1
4. Uldal +33.6
5. Fak +43.4
6. JTB +58.2

LAST LAP AND FINISH

Sturla powered up by his yellow bib skied to the finish quite peacefully. Meanwhile Tarjei caught up with the younger Italian and even got in front of him, showing us that age is just a number (in this case at least) and finished second. The podium therefore remained the same except the Norwegians switched places. Martin Uldal controlled fourth position. JTB caught up with Jakov Fak only to lose to him again right before the finish line. Eric Perrot moved one place up to 7th, QFM climbed 20 places to finish 8th, Sebastian Samuelsson, starting 20th, finished 9th and Nik Hartweg closed the top 10.

PODIUM

1. Sturla Holm Laegreid
2. Tarjei Boe
3. Tommaso Giacomel

ISOLATED PURSUIT

1. Sturla Holm Laegreid

2. Quentin Fillon Maillet +1.2

3. Johannes Thingnes Boe +11.9

4. Martin Uldal +18.0

5. Tarjei Boe +18.9

6. Jakov Fak +19.9

7. Tommaso Giacomel +21.0

8. Antonin Guigonnat +25.2

9. Viktor Brandt +30.5

10. Sebastian Samuelsson +31.7

BIGGEST CLIMBS

Brandt - 33 positions
Germain - 32
Guigonnat - 31
Leitner - 26
Dudchenko - 22
Zobel - 21
Fillon Maillet - 20

BIGGEST DROPS

Komatz - 29 positions
Hornig - 28
Burkhalter - 24
Marecek - 20

NOTES

- Dmytro Pidruchnyi (bib 5) is listed as DNF. I tried to investigate what happened to him but came out empty handed

- Hornig's brilliant top 10 streak came to a bitter end with the worst shooting performance of his senior career (and of the day) with 7 misses. We don't know what happened there as he refused to give the post race interview but as his teammate Krcmar said, if you're going to fall on your face, it's better for it to happen now than at the World Championship. His only saving grace is that misery can be handled better when there's more people to share it - his compatriot Marecek also suffered a mighty drop from grace as he fell from 10th to 30th with 4 misses and the veteran Krcmar went from 20th to 34th with five misses. Disaster on the range for the czechs today.

- It's great to see the struggling Felix Leitner show a sign of life with 11th pursuit time of the day! Hopefully it means that his form is slowly creeping back up. Same thing applies for Viktor Brandt who quietly had an excellent race too and is our climber of the day! Antonin Guigonnat also with a solid performance.

- JTB still doesn't seem to be the best version of himself, although he had the second fastest skiing time and 3rd fastest pursuit time. Sturla extended his lead in the big globe race.

- Campbell Wright and Justus Strelow didn't have a good sprint but as the underperforming top 20 athletes, they had a great chance to join the biggest climb race... And it was a chance they did not take. Campbell finished 39th and Justus finished 40th after some mediocre performances. They will probably be hungry at the World Championship to make up for this miserable trimester ending. Campbell's friend Maxime Germain had another excellent pursuit though! Great to see that.

- German skiing did not look super sharp to me again, as the fastest Philip Horn was 11th, a minute behind Ponsiluoma but the rest didn't even crack top 20. Is it the service again?

What else caught your eye?

And that's it for the second trimester of this biathlon season! Time really does fly... Next up is the season peak, The World Championship in Lenzerheide and before that some European Championship races to fill the gap!

The first picture is Hanna passing Ingrid, the second is moments before Jacquelin falls (unfortunately there is no pictures the moment it happens to my knowledge). I've seen several comparing these two, but I truly don't understand how they are comparable. When someone falls it is always horrible, both for the athlete and for fans watching the sport. And I truly don't think either Hanna or JBT did it on purpose (things happen in the heat of the moment). But Hanna clearly had a lot more contact with Ingrid.

This post is not meant to shame Hanna. She is an amazing athlete and she looked strong today! But I don't think the comparison is fair..

Racing incident.

Welcome to the recap for the Women's Relay in Antholz. It's the last competition before the World Championships in Lenzerheide for the Women and Antholz delivered a fantastatic crowd as usual but no sunshine today. It was a little cloudy with fresh snow in the morning before the race and also at times throughout the race.

Before we get into the race itself let's look at the start list since (mostly due to illness) there have been a few changes in the different teams:

Start List:

-Germany without Grotian (feeling sick) and Preuss (wanting a break), 3/4 of their relay team haven't done a race in Antholz this week

-France without JBB, but with a very strong team after an impressive pursuit und the favorites to win

-Sweden as expected without Elvira Öberg (sick)

-ILT back in the Norwegian Relay

-Vobornicova gets replaced by Otcovska in the Czech Team

Can the French Women win their first relay of this season? Can Switzerland get onto the podium again after being so close to it in 4th last week in Ruhpolding? How will Norway and Sweden do after a rather mediocre Sprint and Pursuit? How will this young and inexperienced German team do? Or will we have a complete surprise on the podium?

Leg 1:

The field stayed mostly together for this first lap with Deedra Irwin unfortunatey falling on the downhill leading to her arriving to the first shooting with a gap of 28s

Shooting 1:

Overall good shooting from the top teams, with Norway and France going out first with 5 hits. Sweden needs one spare round.

The tempo isn't too high in this loop from Knotten and Richard with the field getting closer together and Skottheim leading the field for Shooting 2

Shooting 2:

Great shooting from Skottheim with a quick 5/5 she goes out first, followed by Knotten (+4s) and Repinc (+4.8) . Richard with 1 miss follows in 6th place, 16 seconds back.

Skottheim does a good last loop and leads for Exchange 1, but a geat last laps from Richard and Auchentaller as well who are able to close the gap slightly.

Standing Exchange 1

1. Sweden, 2. France (+10.4), 3. Italy (+11.1), 4. Norway (+12.1), 5. Slovenia (+12.8)

Leg 2

Jeanmonnot starts fast and closes the gap to Sweden, Femsteinevik also with a good first loop. Sweden, Norway and France get to the shooting range alsmost at the same time

Shooting 3

Lou misses 2, she gets passed by Morway and Sweden

Lou closes the gap on the track again. Norway and France work on the track work together, Sweden slightly looses touch before the shooting.

Shooting 4

France with 5/5, Sweden with 5/5, Norway with two misses

Lou comes out first, but a great last lap from Femsteinevik, she closes the gap to France a little and overtakes Sweden

Exchange 2

1. France, 2. Norway (+4.6), 3. Sweden (+17.1), 4. Italy (+46.8), 5. Switzerland (+55.0)

Leg 3

Kirkeeide closes the gap to Michelon during uphill, Magnusson doesn't loose any significabt time on this loop

Shooting 5

Magnusson with a great 5/5, while Michelon missing 2 and Kirkeeide missing 1, they all go out together

Norway, Sweden and France ski most of this lap together, but Kirkeeide starts to open up a slight gap to the others before the shooting

Shooting 6

Norway and France with both a miss each go out together while Magnusson muisses twice and goes out 13.5 s behind them

Michelon has a terrible last lap (I hope she is doing good!) and looses 26s to Norway. She also gets passed by Magnusson who does a good last lap to pull back a few seconds from Norway and pass France.

Echange 3

1. Norway, 2. Sweden (+10.0), 3. France (+25.8), 4. Italy (+1:21.0), 5. Estonia (+1:55.5)

Leg 4

Hanna Oeberg starts fast and makes up a bit of time on ILT, but there's still a 5.8s gap between them before the shooting. Julia Simon does not get closer to the two in front.

Shooting 7

Sweden and Norway with 1 miss each, but due to faster shooting the gap is down to 2s between them. Julia Simon is clean and fast and gets closer as well, now 11.8s behind

Sweden and Norway stay together this lap, Julia Simon is loosing time on them.

Shooting 8

A thrilling last shooting with 2 misses each for Sweden and Norway meaning they go out together again, having to make the decision on the last loop. Julia Simon with 1 miss and 11.8s back has no real chance to make up that difference.

Sweden and Norway stay together for most of the lap but now unfortunately to the controversial moment of this race: Ingrid and Hanna start a long sprint in the Stadium. They're pretty close together, they touch and Ingrid falls. It's hard to say wether one is more at fault than the other, it did not seem like a deliberate move by Hanna and it is very unfortunate to say the least. This of course leads to Hanna crossing the line for Sweden first who immediately talks to Ingrid once she arives.

Finish:

1. Sweden (0+6) , 2. Norway (0+7) (+13.4), 3. France (0+8) (+23.6), 4. Switzerland (1+8) (+2:13.8), 5. Italy (1+9) (+2:17.4)

Statistics:

Total Course Time:

1. Norway (59:31.0), 2. Sweden (+3.2), 3. France (+26.2), 4. Italy (+1:18.7), 5. Switzerland (+1:36.9)

Total Range Time:

1.Sweden (6:51.3), 2. France (+1.7), 3. Ukraine (+14.6), 4. Norway (+17.0), 5. Czechia (+22.9)

Best Legs:

Leg 1: Skottheim (SWE)

Leg 2: Jeanmonnot (FRA)

Leg 3: Magnusson (SWE)

Leg 4: Oeberg (SWE)

Final thoughts:

What a fun relay to watch. My recap was a lot more focused on the Sweden, Norway and France than I initially wanted it to be but it felt like they were the only real contenders for the podim and my recap felt so long already so apologies if this recap is lacking a bit of diversity. This was fun nonetheless :)

Hey y'all, I'm attending the sprint in Nové Mêsto this year and would love to meet Tarjei and/or Johannes for a photo and an autograph. I've never been to a biathlon race before, let alone on this stadium. Could you please give any advice on how to make this possible? Where to search for them, what's the best time to do this etc?

Starting time: 12:05 CET

Start List: here

Datacenter here

Official international stream here or here

Relay standings after 3/5 competitions:

Starting time: 14:45 CET

Start List: here

Datacenter here

Official international stream here or here

Current Overall World Cup Top 10 after 13/20 competitions:

Current Pursuit top 10 after 3/6 competitions:

Before the race

As the last race before the world championships in Lenzerheide is ahead of us it will be an exciting watch with a top 3 within 16 seconds of eachother the race will be close from the very start.

Will Jeanmonnot be able to hold on to her lead or will Grotian and Preuss be able to overcome the gap and battle alongside her for the win?

With the start of the pursuit ahead of us the overall standings look currently like this:

1.      Franziska Preuss –     814

2.      Lou Jeanmonnot –     697

3.      Elivra Oeberg –             571

4.      Jeanne Richard –        471

5.      Suvi Minkinnen –         459

With a gap of 117 points will Jeanmonnot be able to pull the gap back within 100 points?

Currently the standings for the under 23 competition looks like this:

1.      Jeanne Richard –        471

2.      Oceane Michelon –   445

3.      Selina Grotian–            437

4.      Maren Kirkeeide –       359

5.      Julia Tannheimer –     194

With only 34 points between the top 3 how will the standings develop into the world championships, who will be wearing the blue bib during those races?

We’ll find out what today is going to bring!

Loop 1

As the athletes leave their starting positions Jeanmonnot starts out strong and widens the gap to the German ladies behind her to Grotian with a gap of 17 seconds and to Preuss with a gap of 23 seconds before the shooting. Simon being the only one of the top 5 who has only lost 1 second before they head to the first shooting.

Shooting 1

Jeanmonnot has a quick and clean first shooting and leaves the range even before the pack behind of her has started to shoot, as both German ladies miss a shot the shooting is an ideal scenario for Jeanmonnot as her gap now widens to 34 seconds now as Simon leaves now in second place with Grotian followed behind in third place being 46 seconds behind.

Loop 2

During the second loop Jeanmonnot puts out a statement that she isn’t to be played with today and continues widening the gap as its getting to 50 seconds before the second shooting, will the battle for the win be exciting today or is the race for the podium the best battle we will have today?

Shooting 2

Jeanmonnot shoots clean and leaves in first place again, Simon who had a very quick shooting making up 7 seconds alone with just shooting leaves the range in second place being 42 seconds behind. As the remainder of the women shortly behind them are also clean Preuss, Grotian and Richard all leave the range together a minute behind of Jeanmonnot.

Lap 3

During the third loop the picture is once again all the same, Jeanmonnot being outright dominant as she again ski’s 10 seconds further ahead of Simon before the third shooting. The gap being close to 55 seconds before the third shooting. The group that is battling for the final podium spot now being 1 minute and 15 seconds behind the lead.

Shooting 3

As we arrive at the shooting range for the third time today Jeanmonnot had a solid shooting, losing some time on Simon on the range itself makes it that Simon once again leaves in second place with 42 seconds behind of Jeanmonnot. In the battle for third the only athlete missing a shot is Grotian, who now drops to the seventh place. Richard and Preuss continue their battle for the final podium spot being 1 minute and 5 seconds behind of the lead.

Loop 4

During the fourth loop Jeanmonnot continues her dominance as she once again makes sure to increase her gap a little, getting onto the shooting range 50 seconds ahead of Simon.

Shooting 4

In the final shooting Jeanmonnot shows some signs of being human today and actually misses a shot! Making it not the perfect race, but as she has had such a dominant lead she still leaves the range in first place with Simon following 15 seconds behind her as she finished her first individual clean race of the season. Preuss and Richard both leaving the range together being 50 seconds behind for the battle for the final podium spot.

Loop 5

In the final loop Jeanmonnot carries on by what she has been doing all day today, being dominant, as she finished the race out strong in first place, never being in any type of danger whatsoever. Simon finishes the race out in second place and Preuss after outsmarting and outskiing Richard in the final lap passing her in the final parts of the loop makes sure she secures the third place and keep the gap towards Jeanmonnot in the overall standings as big as possible.

Final Remarks

A huge shoutout to Jeanmonnot as she has had probably one of the most dominant displays of the season being simply the best today.

Surprisingly Jeanmonnot was also the only one out of the women that finished in the top 10 of the overall race that also was in the top 10 of the overall skiing times being in third place. With once again Lampic being quite far ahead of everyone else leading the number 2 by 26 seconds.

Huge shoutout to Lena Haecki-Gross as she started out as 59^(th) and ended her race in 14^(th) place!

As we leave the final individual race of the weekend and prepare ourselves for one more relay before the world championships the overall standings currently look like this:

1.      Franziska Preuss –     879

2.      Lou Jeanmonnot –     787

3.      Elvira Oeberg -              571

4.      Julia Simon -                  530

5.      Jeanne Richard -         526

With Jeanmonnot pulling herself back within 100 points in what feels like forever the race for the overall standings promises to be exciting after the world championships!

The under 23 standings are currently looking like this:    

1.      Jeanne Richard -         521

2.      Oceane Michelon -    500

3.      Selina Grotian -           482

4.      Maren Kirkeeide -       379

5.      Maya Cloetens -          195

Which makes that Jeanne Richard will carry the blue bib into the world championships.

Enjoy the relay tomorrow everyone!

Starting time: 14:55 CET

Start List: here

Datacenter here

Official international stream here or here

Relay standings after 3/5 competitions:

Starting time: 13:00 CET

Start List: here

Datacenter here

Official international stream here or here)

Current Overall World Cup Top 10 after 13/20 competitions:

Current Pursuit Cup Top 10 after 3/6 competitions:

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