Overview
- After finishing 13th in the Nove Mesto mass start, Preuß told Sportschau that these “maybe” were her last World Cup races.
- DSV sport director Felix Bitterling cautioned against jumping to conclusions and said any decision should be reassessed after the Olympics.
- Preuß’s mass start was marred by three penalty loops, two in the second prone stage and another at the final shooting.
- She had taken third in the shortened individual earlier in Nove Mesto, her first podium of the season following an injury- and illness-disrupted winter.
- France controlled the mass start with Julia Simon winning and four French athletes in the top five, as the Olympic biathlon program begins February 8 in Antholz.