Biathlon. Will Julia Simon be reassured? The Blues still on top? Questions about Ruhpolding

Preuss, like Jeanmonnot?

Does Franziska Preuss experience what Lou Jeanmonnot experienced in Grand-Bornand? While fighting for first place in the general classification, the Frenchwoman had difficulty managing the weight of racing at home (35^e 18^e 14^e ), letting the German escape who missed at Oberhof last week (28^e 20^e ). As a result, the Jurassienne returned to 116 points even though she was more than 200 behind.

In Bavaria, in its station, the yellow jersey will perhaps have even more pressure. The fact remains that she did not use this argument when analyzing her failed sprint, instead criticizing the IBU’s choice of not having suspended its new starting order procedure in order to protect the big names in the rain swinging.

Will Simon be reassured?

Alongside the victories of Paula Botet, Lou Jeanmonnot and Quentin Fillon Maillet, one of the strong images of last week was the distress of Julia Simon after missing four balls during the last shot of the chase, while success stretched out his arms.

Preserved on Sunday for the mixed relays, the Savoyard fell to 82% success against the targets. An average that she was no longer accustomed to since she had reconstructed her shot with Jean-Paul Giachino at the dawn of winter 2022-2023, that of her explosion at the top of the world hierarchy. In Grand-Bornand, before its 2^e place in pursuit, she explained that she lacked “serenity” when arriving at the shooting range. Ruhpolding is the penultimate stop before the Lenzerheide Worlds to resolve this problem.

Wednesday Individual men (20 km) at 2:10 p.m. THURSDAY Individual women (15 km) at 2:10 p.m. Friday Men’s relay at 2:20 p.m. SATURDAY Women’s relay at 2:20 p.m. Sunday Mass-start men (15 km) at 12:30 p.m., then women (12.5 km) at 3 p.m.