Overview
- Elana Meyers Taylor won Olympic monobob gold by 0.04 seconds over Germany’s Laura Nolte, with Kaillie Armbruster Humphries taking bronze.
- German ski officials blasted the jury after the team event in Predazzo was abandoned after two rounds, a decision they say cost a likely bronze by 0.3 points, while FIS race management defended the call amid heavy snowfall.
- DER SPIEGEL reports former Russian biathlete Anton Schipulin refused to return his 2014 relay gold, days after Germany’s Erik Lesser, Daniel Böhm, Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp received retroactively awarded golds following a Russian doping disqualification.
- Bookmaker odds cited by SPORT1 place France as favorite for today’s men’s 4 × 7.5 km biathlon relay, even as Norway enters as reigning Olympic and world champion and the current World Cup relay leader.
- Germany reshaped its women’s biathlon relay for Wednesday, moving world champion Franziska Preuß to the second leg and installing Vanessa Voigt as anchor after recent late‑shooting struggles.