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This week the World Cup biathlon makes a stop in Korea. In the last hours there were reports of several flat rate among the top nations, especially in the men's field.
Monday 27 February 2017 3 minutes reading time
In particular, Norway will present riddled with second lines. In fact the game will not be the Bø brothers, Emil Hegle Svendsen and Lars Helge Birkeland. By Johannes Svendsen and it is a choice, while Tarjei and Birkeland got sick right next departure for Asia.
Therefore the only norge leading to compete in South Korea will Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who will be accompanied by Henrik L'Abee-Lund, Sjåstad Vetle Christiansen, Fredrik Gjesbakk, Bjørn Vegard Gjermundshaug and Erlend Øvereng Bjøntegaard.
The women will Tiril Eckhoff, Mars Olsbu, Hilde Fenne, Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen and Marion Huber.
 also announced a couple of weight absences in the home Germany, in both cases caused by illness. They will remain in Europe and Simon Schempp Vanessa Hinz. Both should return the game of Kontiolahti.
10 will be the Teutonic engaged in Pyeong Chang Count: in the women's field is laura dahlmeier, Maren Hammerschmidt, Denise Herrmann, Franziska Hildebrand and Nadine Horchler. Among men instead they take to the track Benedikt Doll, Florian Graf, Erik Lesser, Arnd Peiffer and Roman Rees.
The German team has decided not to adapt to the time zone Korean, but to continue to live according to European times, so as to not suffer jet lag. Translated, the team will remain standing all night, going to bed in the early morning and waking in the early afternoon. A strategy sometimes used by Formula 1 drivers during the great Asian awards.
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