Foggy Alpenzia / Photo by Andrey Ivanov
So, Pyeongchang! The World Cup is sent to the so-called pre-Olympic week or Test event - traditional competitions before each Olympics in the arena of future Games.
Pyeongchang is actually not a city, but a county in northern Korea, close to the demarcation line with its communist northern neighbors. But the city around which most of the arenas of the Game will be located is called Daegwallyeong-myeon... The biathlon center from the center of the six thousandth town is half an hour's drive away. And two and a half hours by train (180 km) from the capital of the country Seoul
Alpenzia from a height / f3nws.com This is a typical area of winter resorts - something like alpine places (but, of course, without centuries of cultural traditions and historical heritage in each village) or - probably nevertheless closer - Bukovel.
Pyeongchang 2018 chip - for the first time since 1992 White Olympiad will be held not in big city and in a classic winter resort.
There he is, Pyeongchang
The biathlon center is located in the most famous of the local resorts - Alpenzia. The resort is multifunctional - there are also trampolines, a bobsleigh runner and ski slopes (although, it is believed that they are more for beginners and middle peasants than for pros).
As a reminder, Pyeongchang submitted his candidacy for another 2010 Games when they chose Vancouver, and then was the main favorite at 2014 year, but the arrival at the IOC Session in Guatemala, where the capital of the Games was chosen, Russian President Putin decided to vote in favor of Sochi.
In 2006, before the capital elections in 2014, Alpenzia was laid - one of several (and not the only and best in Asia, as someone might think) winter resorts in this area. The Koreans were so sure that they would get 2014 that they "knocked out" themselves in advance . And before that - also
It was a memorable experience, which is revealingly reminiscent of the interview with the then leader of the Ukrainian national team. Andrey Derizemli ( source - official portal of the Ukrainian Biathlon Federation ):
“Pyeongchang surprised us from the very beginning, as soon as we checked into the hotel. Imagine: we go into the room, and there is not a single bed, not a single chair, only a wardrobe and high mattresses. But it turned out to be just flowers. The berries were found on the track. She turned out to be just awful. The snow is thin, not rolled, no one sprinkles it. This is later the committee international federation strained the organizers, and they began to stir. And the first races turned out to be, one might say, extreme. Like a championship of some region, not a world forum. Before the sprint, we were not even allowed to study the track, it was half washed away ... by the rain ... And during the pursuit race with the markings, they confused something ... So in my memory there was probably no more nervous world championship. "
Andrey Derizemlya in Pyeongchang in 2009 / biathlon-online.de IN sports terms korean world championship became a benefit Ole Ainar Bjoerndalen who won 4 gold out of six possible. In the sprint, all three places went to the Norwegians. The best Ukrainian result was the fourth place Vita Semerenko in masstart and two places in the top 10 for the aforementioned Derizemli.
After 2009, there were no more biathlon starts in Alpenia, and in preparation for the 2018 Games, which finally gave Korea, rumors arose about the imminent bankruptcy of the resort. Alpenzia's losses amounted to $ 55 million, they talked about a possible sale or about government assistance.
In Alpenia, biathletes are met in all languages spoken in the World Cup / Photo by Andrey IvanovMost likely, biathletes who are not too fond of such long journeys will no longer agree to go to stages in Korea after the Games. For the development of biathlon in Korea and Asia - which, of course, the organizers talked about pathetically during the presentation of the application for the Games - the importance of the track is also quite relative. Yes, . But objectively, this is only for the Olympic principle “not victory, but participation”. The rest of the Asians - Japan, China - only occasionally appear in biathlon.
It is very possible that the biathlon Alpenzia will share the fate of other empty Olympic arenas, but so far the attention of the entire biathlon world is directed to this “Potemkin village”.
Alpenzia track (no better circuit yet) / hellopyeongchang.com Alpenzia is a mid-highland. The track is located at an altitude of 700-800 m above sea level
Time difference from Pyeongchang - 7 hours with Kiev and 8 from Western and Central Europe. The races will be held in the evening to make it convenient for Europe. This is an important point, given the weather as well.
The weather promises to be the same as - in the daytime 6-8 degrees Celsius, and in the evening it will be frosty, which, by the way, will require special skills from the service group.
Weather in Pyeongchang for the next weekend Both leaders of the overall World Cup standings - Martin Fourcade and Laura Dahlmeier- will perform in Pyeongchang.
We have already talked about the Norwegians and Simon Schempp who were absent at the stage. Martin Fourcade's rivals this season have no tournament motivation - why drive back and forth between time zones.
And Martin, who eight years ago was not yet such a star, but had already performed at the World Championships in Pyeongchang, with a soul calm for the fate of the Big Crystal Globe, conducted a tour along the Olympic track
But the women's World Cup will fight against Laura Dahlmeier, defeated everyone at the world championship. The stages after the main start of the season are always rich in surprises - you can expect them for women, although in the difficult conditions of the new track, service will come to the fore, which means those teams that have a better financial situation.
Just look at this, to put it mildly, mess on the track / Photo by Andrey Ivanov All the leaders went to Korea as part of the Ukrainian national team - "target =" _blank "> all those who celebrated the anniversary of the President of the Biathlon Federation Volodymyr Brynzak plus Dmitry Pidgrushny and Alexander the Fat, who, for good reason, missed the social event. With the same line-up, the guys will go to the last two stages, in Kontiolahti and Oslo, except Valentina Semerenko which will end the season after Korea.
Valya Semerenko and Olya Abramova, again have replaced evening dresses with their usual overalls, Sergey Semenov and Dmitry Pidruchny in training before sprints in Alpenia / Photo by Andrey Ivanov the site will broadcast all the races of the stage - two (), two purses and two relay races. Race schedule -
All the winners and the best results of the Ukrainian national team on the only two in history international tournaments biathlon in Pyeongchang
- Sprint, men- Emil Egle Svendsen, Norway 1 + 0. ... 26 - Alexey Aydarov, Ukraine 0 + 1, +1: 45.5.
- Pursuit Men- Michael Greis, Germany 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 (from 10th place). ... 31. Vyacheslav Derkach 0 + 2 + 1 + 0 (from 36th place)
- Sprint, women- Magdalena Neuner, Germany 0 + 2. ... 28. Lilia Efremova-Vaygina 1 + 3, 2: 23.4
- Pursuit, women- Sandrine Bailly, France 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 (from 2nd place). ... 21. Lilia Efremova-Vaygina 1 + 0 + 2 + 0 (from 21st place)
- Mixed relay - Norway 2 + 7 (Ann Christine Flatland - Solveig Rogstad - Hans Yedrem - Alexander Us) ... 7. Ukraine (Lilia Efremova-Vaygina 0 + 3, 0 + 1; Inna Suprun 0 + 3, 0 + 1; Alexey Aidarov 0+ 0, 0 + 0; Vyacheslav Derkach 0 + 0, 0 + 3) +52.7
Men
- Sprint- Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway 1 + 1. ... 12 - Andriy Derizemlya, Ukraine 2 + 0, +1: 20.2
- Pursuit- Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway 0 + 2 + 0 + 2 (from 1st place). ... 7 - Andriy Derizemlya, Ukraine 0 + 1 + 2 + 1, +2: 09.8 (from 12th place)
- Individual race - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway 0 + 0 + 2 + 1. ... 8 - Andriy Derizemlya, Ukraine 1 + 0 + 0 + 1, +39.1
- Masstart- Dominik Landertinger, Austria 2 + 0 + 0 + 1. ... 23 - Andriy Derizemlya, Ukraine 3 + 1 + 2 + 1, +3: 00.8
- Relay race- Norway 2 + 9 (Emil Egle Svendsen - Lars Berger - Halvard Hanevold - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen). ... 5 Ukraine (Alexander Belanenko 0 + 1, 0 + 1 - Vyacheslav Derkach 0 + 0, 0 + 0 - Andriy Derizemlya 0 + 1, 0 + 1 - Roman Prima 0 + 2, 0 + 0) +1: 14.7
Women
- Sprint- Kati Wilhelm, Germany 0 + 0. ... 15 - Valentina Semerenko, Ukraine 1 + 1, +1: 42.1
- Pursuit- Helem Ekholm, Sweden 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 (from 5th place). ... 31 - Vita Semerenko, Ukraine 0 + 0 + 3 + 0, +1: 52.6 (from 26th place)
- Individual race- Kati Wilhelm, Germany 0 + 1 + 0 + 0. ... 12 - Vita Semerenko, Ukraine 0 + 1 + 0 + 0, +2: 01.7
- Masstart- Olga Zaitseva, Russia 0 + 0 + 1 + 1. ... 4 - Vita Semerenko, Ukraine 0 + 0 + 0 + 0, +34.6
- Relay race- Russia 0 + 9 (Sleptsova - Frolina - Medvedtseva - Zaitseva). ... DNF Ukraine (Elena Pidhrushnaya 1 + 3, 0 + 2 - Valentina Semerenko 1 + 3, 0 + 2 - Oksana Khvostenko - Vita Semerenko)
Mixed relay
France 0 + 6 (Marie Laure Brunet - Sylvie Becar - Vincent Defrand - Simon Fourcade). ... 11 - Ukraine (Oksana Khvostenko 0 + 1, 0 + 3 - Valentina Semerenko 0 + 0, 0 + 1 - Alexander Belanenko 0 + 1, 0 + 0 0 Andriy Derizemlya 0 + 3, 0 + 2)
And this is required attribute- mascots of Pyeongchang-2018 / Photo by Andrey Ivanov The biathlon season after the end of the World Cup is close to its final. So, from March 2 to 5, the 7th stage of the 2017 Biathlon World Cup will be held in South Korean Pyeongchang. Note that there are 9 stages in the World Cup calendar, and therefore the denouement is close.
Biathlon 7 stage of the World Cup: schedule
We bring to your attention full schedule 7th stage of the Biathlon World Cup, which will be held in Korean Pyeongchang. Given that stage will pass in South Korea, starts earlier than usual. So, the first race of the 7th stage will be the women's 7.5 km sprint, which will take place on March 2 and will start at 14:15 Moscow time. The next day, March 3, the men will run the 10-kilometer sprint.
There will be two pursuit races on March 4th. At 12:45 the women will start the 10 km race, and the men will start at 14:30 (12.5 km).
Finally, for dessert, on March 5 - the last day of the stage - two relay races are left. At 10:30 the women will run the 4 x 6 km relay race, and the men's relay (4 x 7.5 km) will start at 13:45.
The composition of the Russian national biathlon team for the 7th stage of the 2017 World Cup
Let's talk about as part of the Russian national biathlon team for the 7th stage of the 2016-2017 World Cup in Pyeongchang. It looks like this. Note that Olga Podchufarova is likely to miss the stage due to injury, and Eliseev, Volkov, Loginov and Malyshko will take part in the IBU Cup in Kontiolahti.
Women: Svetlana Sleptsova, Tatiana Akimova, Irina Starykh and Irina Uslugina, Svetlana Mironova
Men: Anton Shipulin, Evgeny Garanichev, Anton Babikov, Maxim Tsvetko, Yuri Shopin and Timur Makhambetov.
Biathlon World Cup 2016-2017: overall
In conclusion - about the position in the overall standings of the Biathlon World Cup 2016-2017. In men, Frenchman Martin Fourcade is leading by a huge margin, with 1020 points. The Russian Anton Shipulin, who is the second, has 690 points, the German Simon Schempp, who closes the top three, has 673.
German Laura Dahlmeier is in the lead in the women's standings with 903 points. In second place is Gabriela Soukalova from the Czech Republic - 857 points, in third - Finnish Kaisa Makkarainen (776). The best of the Russians - Tatyana Akimova - closes the top ten with 457 points.
The Biathlon World Championship in Hochfilzen has already become a part of history, and after a short break, the World Cup is resumed with another stage in Korean Pyeongchang. The pre-Olympic week starts on Thursday, March 2, with the women's sprint. Athletes will also run the pursuit and relay race.
Bjoerndalen sets an example for the young
The biathletes will have a very stressful week and a half, because at the end of the stage in Korea, they will have to make another long flight to Finland, where the eighth stage of the World Cup will be held from Tyumen. Due to such a schedule, it has already become known that many of the strongest will not fly to Pyeongchang.
The leader of the German national team decided to follow the example of the tired Norwegians and not fly to Korea, citing illness.
“There is no point in flying sick. Hopefully I can recover quickly for the Finnish stage, ”Schempp told Sport1.de.
Russian women during stagnation
Women turned out to be more resilient than the stronger sex, and all the leaders of the season will take part in the fight for cup points. This can also be explained by the nature of the struggle for the Big Crystal Globe, where for men Anton, who occupies the second place in the overall standings, can only theoretically win 330 points against Martin Fourcade, but something out of the ordinary must happen for this.
The women's struggle is in full swing, and the German World Cup leader is ahead of last year's Globe winner by only 46 points, so it is extremely dangerous to miss the starts.
The fight for first place in the season for women will be sharp, and it cannot be confidently stated that the triumphant world championship in Hochfilzen Dahlmeier, who won five gold and one silver medals in Austria, will calmly hold the first place in the overall standings. Moreover, after such stress and emotional outburst, the German woman may not have enough strength to continue victorious pace in Korea and Finland.
Koukalova is quite capable of taking advantage of the inevitable decline in Dahlmeier's form after the main start of the season and impose a fight on her. As for Kaisa Mäkarainen from Finland, who closes the top three in the overall standings, her lag behind the Czech diva is 81 points, and it will be extremely difficult to recoup.
Russian coaching staff decided to conduct a cautious experiment with the composition of the women's team.
The already proven Tatyana, Irina Uslugina will be joined by a 23-year-old, for whom this will be her debut in the World Cup.
Mironova performs this season in the IBU Cup, where she has never climbed to the podium, and her best results were two fourths.
the legendary biathlete presented a jacket with sable fur, "made by the best master of Krasnoyarsk."
Now he has a great opportunity to present himself with a present in the form of the second final place in the overall standings of the World Cup. In the absence of Schempp and Shipulin, he can break away from his closest pursuers and bring the title of vice-champion of the season closer.
An interesting challenge to the national team of Shopin and Makhambetov. The 24-year-old Shopin has already started at the World Cup stages this season in Östersund and Oberhof, but his best result was 31st in the pursuit in Germany.
His peer Makhambetov made his debut in big biathlon and gained good shape, at the beginning of the month climbing the podium at the IBU Cup stage in Osrbli, Slovakia.
The absence of a leader German team Shemppa can also affect the hands in the fight for the Small Cup in the relay competition. The Russian national team is leading in this discipline by a small margin of 17 points from the German national team, but in Korea it will have a chance to increase the advantage over a weakened opponent.
Five minutes later, the owner of the sixth Bolshoi crystal globe Fourcade continues to chase Bjoerndalen's record for the most wins in a season.
At the moment, the Frenchman has 11 individual success and he lacks just one victory to catch up with the great Norwegian. In the event of a very likely winning double in Pyeongchang, Fourcade will beat the achievement of the biathlon king. And a repetition of the record for the number of victories in the overall World Cup is just around the corner.
The ill-fated Pyeongchang
Russian fans have mixed feelings about the Korean biathlon stadium.
In 2009, the World Championship was held here, which is remembered for several events of the opposite nature. Sleptsova,
Korea follows in the footsteps of Russia
For the Games in Sochi, the Russian Olympic team was joined by the Korean and American Vic Wild, who brought us gold medals in short track speed skating and snowboarding. Koreans not only keep up with, but already surpass the Russians in the naturalization of foreign athletes on the eve of the home Olympics.
Speaking in the World Cup for the Russian national team, Lapshin twice won the relay races, and also climbed the podium three times in individual starts. His best result career - Sprint Silver in the 2011/12 season. And the post of the head coach of the national team is occupied by the former Russian biathlete... I wonder if Koreans will be able to next year turn quantity into quality.
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Our tourists can’t run but shoot at someone else’s expense, it’s time for them to participate in competitions at their own expense, then maybe the results will be treated more responsibly. Well, the nags are tired of this hopelessness.
And I am against putting Mironova at the current TS. Shooting will not appear, and the move will be lost. Now the skis in the national team are smeared according to Yakovlev's order.
paris, well, to Akimov (the leader), they have no right to put where they please, since the first 15 in total choose the group themselves
The last group will not give an advantage, so they will run late in the evening, but what the state of the track will be - that's the question
Haytham, the rights of which you speak are of a recommended nature,
they are not law. Coaches have the right to put even the leader (against his will) at the bottom of the list.
Sveta Mironova good luck in the race and be careful at the shooting range. and then luck will turn to you.
Anna Di, with a small heap, I agree, will bypass, but with a large heap ... well, I don’t know, she will have to try hard if Sveta, too, doesn’t get carried away with the production of heaps - and she can do that, we know. :))
Forward! We need to show ourselves on the Olympic track. If only Mironova could cope with the shooting, and our servicemen with grease.
Anna Di, Denise will bypass all our feet as if she were lying down.
DimaN1951, so someone who is Denise ... with his feet with a bunch of penalties ... Sleptsova, as a standing one, will bypass) good luck to everyone! especially Mironova!
Frolina and Avvakumova start in the top thirty,
and the owner knows best places in the House…))
Sveta Mironova, go for it! Well, Tanya and Ira too! Sleptsova I do not want anything. Earn points with a service.
From an interview with Alikin: ... “In 2009 we competed on artificial snow - now, as I understand it, it will be the same. This is a big concern for the service: training was during the day, and by the evening the sun was freezing. The Norwegians in 2009 realized this, showed up in the last group in the sprint, smeared well - they had 20-30 seconds advantage from the circle ... ”It turns out that Mironova was the most fortunate ?!
Interesting combinations were formed:
Akimova should try to catch up with Hammerschmidt and run away from Jim;
The old ones should try to catch up with Pidgrushnaya and run away from Merkushina.
God forbid the others not to be overtaken:
Sleptsova - Herrmann;
Service - Domracheva (hopeless if Daria does not shoot herself);
Mironova - Emonya (quite capable).
And the mustache will be good! :))
Sveta Mironova, double luck! Be careful on the slopes, the track is broken.
Many leaders are closer to the tail ", they hope it will freeze? Good luck to the girls. I wish Sveta Mironova to get into the GP.
paris, what hazing? The right to start in a comfortable group must be won by a position in the leading group of the overall WC. Mironova does not have such a right, since there are no points at all in the KM standings, but if she breaks up, she will get it.
Again, young people are at the end of the list, like hazing in the army.
On March 2, the next stage of the Biathlon World Cup starts in South Korean Pyeongchang. These competitions are of particular importance for Koreans, as they will become a dress rehearsal on the eve of the 2018 Olympics, which will be held in this Korean place.
Our team arrived in Korea a few days ago and conducted training and shooting. Judging by the statements of the athletes, the track has its own specifics - different snow, rather steep ascents, making high demands on functional training, as well as occasional sudden lateral gusts of wind. In addition, the weather brings surprises. IN last days in Pyeongchang a stable "plus" was established, during the day the temperature exceeds 7-8 degrees Celsius, and therefore there is practically no snow on the slopes of the hills. The layer is supported on the track, but it is wet. In the evening the temperature drops, heavy snow is expected at night, and warming again during the day. In general, the maintenance crews of the prefabs will have to puzzle hard to guess with lubricants for the sake of optimal glide.
Judging by the declared composition, Russia brought its best line-up... The women's team included Svetlana Sleptsova, Tatyana Akimova, Irina Starykh, Irina Uslugina and Svetlana Mironova, and the men's team - Anton Shipulin, Evgeny Garanichev, Anton Babikov, Maxim Tsvetkov, as well as Yuri Shopin and Timur Makhambetov.
Note that we will have to see many other Russian names among the participants. In particular, four well-known Russian athletes will compete for the home team - South Korea - at once: Anna Frolina (Bulygina), Ekaterina Avvakumova, Timofey Lapshin and Alexander Starodubets. All of them have already received Korean citizenship and will now defend the honor of Korea both now and at the 2018 Olympics.
The World Cup stage will open with a women's sprint. A special feature of the races in Korea will also be the fact that they will be held late. For example, the women's sprint will start at 9:00 pm local time. Men's sprint March 3 - at seven in the evening. This is done for the convenience of viewers, the lion's share of which is in the European region.
The stage of the World Cup in Pyeongchang has already been marked by a small scandal. The famous Norwegian athlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen en route to Korea. The missing items were discovered while transferring to Helsinki for a Seoul flight. However, the athlete himself took everything with humor. “They stole my new ski goggles, headlamp, wireless speaker, and a laser medical device. Now someone is wearing glasses in good light and probably with good music,” Bjoerndalen joked.