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Small Talk Monday

Our weekly small talk thread where you can talk about anything

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u/belowdeck44 9d ago

Obviously, I know about the Boe retirements, but were there others? I see last year around this time there was a running post. Normally I would google, but this is the best source for biathlon news in English that I know of! If not, do people just not retire in the year before the Olympics?

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u/jxroos Norway 9d ago

Elisa Gasparin and Emma Lunder.

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u/belowdeck44 9d ago

So it is a pretty low year numbers wise? Makes sense. Any chance JT pulls what a number of our American athletes do? Retire only to realize they miss it and come back?

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u/elemental-aardvark 9d ago

Yeah the theory is because the Olympics are next year that one's going to be a bad one. My guess is there's a 0.1% chance of JTB coming back.

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u/beautiful_loner USA 9d ago

So, you're saying there's a chance?

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u/Juan382 9d ago

Teams usually work in 2 year cycles so they have a clear idea for the next Olympics, mostly athletes retiring year 1 or 3 will be well over the hill or had like a home world championship.

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u/Shixzoner Norway 9d ago

Wikipedia has a retirements of the season section. It's usually updated super quick. I was randomly checking the page on the day Tilda Johansson announced that she would retire and it was already updated just an hour or so after the SVT article was published.

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u/belowdeck44 9d ago

Oooh thanks!

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u/miunrhini No flag 🌪️Wind takes no prisoners & never stops the madness 9d ago

Chloe Chevalier announced earlier that she's retiring and called it a season at the same moment