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[Roar]

Nice pictures from Östersund...

One comment - there are many pictures of Magdalena when she puts her right finger in her mouth and pulls off her glove from that finger, this makes of course her shooting better because she fells the "pressurpoint" better when she pulls the trigger....

In a TV interview with Anna Carin Olofsson-Zidek (??) she sad that her hand got so cold during the race and the shooting was difficult because the thick glove stuck to the trigger??
When the reporter give her the tip to cut a hole in her shootingfinger glove -she looked like she never heard it before.
Strange that such a simple thing is not known in the Swedish camp...

The latest entry on Magdalenas diary was really nice and impressive.. The shooting was very hard in Hochfilzen - but why does some make it and some not?

Martina Beck for instants. Could she not give her team mates some tips??
I think that it is mostly a mental thing - an mental thing that has much to do with experience. Martina makes her decision and makes the adjustments on her "bioptikal" sight, then she is confident on what she done. If you start to hesitate and doubt you´re ability to make the right decision you are lost - lost like so many was last week. One other fact that I think I saw was that the wind was stronger in the middle of the shooting range, and weaker on the first lanes. So unfair in a way..

Let´s hope for a fair race this week, with a weak steady wind..(for Magdalena´s sake of course!!!)

Have You seen this clip on Youtube from ARD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Ga8EwwjQw

IS Magdalena thinner this season? She really looks super great on the shooting range I think ! 




   

It's pretty strange that Olofsson didn't know that. It's hard to believe

i'm not the one that can say why who's better in the wind but i guess it have to do with experience .

Magdalena maybe looks thinner but i guess it's because she have been ill weeks before wc starts ...

[Rusch]

Normally the russians do best, if it is windy and the Germans got big problems. I think this has to do with the training situations. The russians got more oportunity to shoot whille it is windy.

[Roar]

This Biathlon-award, is that some important event or...no news about this other than biathlon-online.

[Roar]

More windy  for the ladies...again

[Roar]

I saw the intervju of Lena by ZDF live stream and she looks happy  . Very important with 0 0 in the last 2 shootings.

Super! 

[Humi]

More windy  for the ladies...again

Well, biathlon is an outdoor sport. So it sometimes happens that you've got to cope with windy or difficult conditions.

[Roar]

More windy  for the ladies...again

Well, biathlon is an outdoor sport. So it sometimes happens that you've got to cope with windy or difficult conditions.

Why i'm saying this  it's because there is more wind later on the day than when the guys are going . As we saw last weekend.Thats my point.

[Markus]

If the conditions are stable, and today it looked like that, it should not really have an effect.

[Jensi]

I think so too. Everybody had the same conditions, which were difficult but regular.

[Roar]

I think so too. Everybody had the same conditions, which were difficult but regular.

I'm not sure we talk the same here . It's the same conditions for ladies and boys but it was more windy later on the day as we saw last weekend. Because of the wind i was worried about how Lena was doing today but that went not so bad after all 

[Roar]

I really hope lena will be on top 3 today. .But I don't expect she will go tomorrow . 

[Jensi]

Please use the edit-function and do not post one post after another .

[HudikMats]

Questions..

1. Can any team beat Russia (men´s and Lady´s) on the relays tomorrow?

2. Should athletes that are band a period of time from the sport because of doping - be allowed back in the sport again (see the first question)?

3. Why are the German men performing so bad?

4. Why should not Magdalena and Katrhin Hitzer take places in the German "Staffel"?

5. If you have - like the Swedish team - two good runners and two bad ones - how do you set up you're relay team? I think the two best should go out in the beginning??

 

[Markus]

Questions..

Answers.

1. Can any team beat Russia (men´s and Lady´s) on the relays tomorrow?

I don't think so, especially the women look very strong.

2. Should athletes that are band a period of time from the sport because of doping - be allowed back in the sport again (see the first question)?

Yes. because everybody deserves a second chance.

3. Why are the German men performing so bad?

Good question...

4. Why should not Magdalena and Katrhin Hitzer take places in the German "Staffel"?

The will run the relay, as Kati Wilhelm and Martina Beck will pass.

5. If you have - like the Swedish team - two good runners and two bad ones - how do you set up you're relay team? I think the two best should go out in the beginning??

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[Jensi]

1. Can any team beat Russia (men´s and Lady´s) on the relays tomorrow?

No, I don't think so. The ladies are much too strong. The men could lose if something goes really wrong.

2. Should athletes that are band a period of time from the sport because of doping - be allowed back in the sport again (see the first question)?

Yes, my opinion is the same as Markus'

3. Why are the German men performing so bad?

Birnbacher was ill. I don't know why the others (especially Rösch) are so weak. Its possible that the material is not the prepared as good as it should be, but that's speculative.

4. Why should not Magdalena and Katrhin Hitzer take places in the German "Staffel"?

They take part.

5. If you have - like the Swedish team - two good runners and two bad ones - how do you set up you're relay team? I think the two best should go out in the beginning??

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