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OEB is back again!
This season has been comparatively bad for Ole Einar, I mean he has only
won 3 or 4 world cup races (plus anchoring in 3 relay wins), he's only leading the overall and mass start categories in the world cup, and his shooting has been somewhat wobbly. :-( On friday he was on schedule for another Sprint race win, the category where he has the most wins afaik, but a possibly bad wax job (???) cost him 8 seconds on the last (easy) km, and that's very unusual. Yesterday's pursuit was bad, with 7 (?) missed shots. Today we got to see the great Ole Einar again, just like we've been used to from previous years: Mass start, in the leading group into the first shoot, then one missed target, so he left the stadium about 18-19 seconds behind. On the second lap he must have hit the afterburner, clawing his way back into the leader group, then after 5 fast hits he was in the lead for good: From then on he was alone in the lead, and those that tried to keep up with his skiing speed (Maximum Tschoudov sp?) started missing targets, so the final lap became a leisurely "victory lap" instead of a fight to the finish. The Swede, Bjørn Ferry, had a very nice weekend, winning the pursuit yesterday, and outskiing the rest of the followers today for a nice 2nd place. Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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OEB is back again!
On Jan 20, 12:57*pm, Terje Mathisen
wrote: This season has been comparatively bad for Ole Einar, I mean he has... Is seems like Ole's skiing improves/maintains with age, but his shooting gets worse, may be time to see an eye doctor... |
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OEB is back again!
shane wrote:
On Jan 20, 12:57 pm, Terje Mathisen wrote: This season has been comparatively bad for Ole Einar, I mean he has... Is seems like Ole's skiing improves/maintains with age, but his shooting gets worse, may be time to see an eye doctor... He switched his shooting style to use a strap this year, and the NRK commentator seems certain that's the problem. I think it is like a golf pro deciding that her swing need to be changed: You get a wobbly season, but then hopefully stabilize on a higher level afterwards. Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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OEB is back again!
He switched his shooting style to use a strap this year, and the NRK commentator seems certain that's the problem. It's odd that I never see anyone use the cuff in standing, in WC, North American events, club level biathlon races. Wonder if we'll see him bag is next year or more people use it |
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