Warm weather in Europe is probably a joy for ordinary people, but not for biathletes, skiers and fans, as well as for the organizers of the competitions. The organizers need to somehow preserve the snow at +15 during the day and the sun, and +3 at night. And then the athletes try to ski through all this.
«I think that the IBU is moving in the wrong direction. There is a lot of talk about global warming now, and perhaps we should choose the stages and their timing more carefully.
In fact, on a weekend like this, we should ask ourselves: what should we do? What image do we want to give to our sport?
Of course, this is still a competition in which everyone has goals, and today the best are ahead. But I think that at some point biathlon, as a winter sport, will have to take the first step in the opposite direction, that is, in the direction opposite to the current economic logic, similar to the one that the IBU is following today - not increasing the number of stages, but reducing the number of stages» says Emilien Jacquelin.
