Ricco is En Route

His back is better (I massaged it lots the other day) and is in the 10km spring in Ruhpolding AS WE SPEAK.

I'm so nervous.

He's cleared all the targets on the prone and standing shoots but is not all that fast right now on the snow -- in 2nd beind a really fast French guy (Poiree).

Will update!

VC

EDIT: My lover is 10 seconds out of the lead with a Russian now 6 seconds ahead of him for second.

EDIT: AH! Another German is 0.4 seconds ahead of him and he's rumoured to accelerate (which Ricco doesn't).

Edit: NO! Some Swede (who's only 20! I DETEST YOUNGER GUYS!) is now in 2nd.

It's hard to compare in these races because everyone stars at different times, do you can only compare split times.

Edit: Gross is across the line and can do no better than 2nd because someone finished ahead of him already. Some other German just finished (Wolfgan Rottman -- fastest skiier but sucked on the standing shoot) and his heart rate is 178 beats per minute.

Edit: AH! Someone else just finished ahead of Ricco. Ok I can't update again until it's ALL over, beecause it's making me neurotic and sad :(

Edit: Not done yet but wanted to say that the 20yo burned out :) HA! Ricco in 4th at the moment, but one another German is almost guaranteed to beat him, so I'm praying for 5th

Edit: OMG I jinxed my babe AGAIN! The 20 somehow managed to shoot EVERY standing target in like 1 second and even though he fell ON HIS FACE in the snow skiing out of the range, is like 15 seconds in the lead! Which puts 123 as German-French-German, and then Ricco probably in 6th :(

Edit: The 20yo put in an unbeatable time and 123 is Germany-France-Germany (so far). My only satisfaction is that the youngster was filmed in slow motion at the finish making some kind of oddly-fascist salute, kissing his fist while snot and spit stuck to his hand -- the most unglamorous part of this sport being that by the end they are COVERED in semi-frozen snot and drool. Oh...and he's 22, not 20.

Edit: The 22yo just got bumped by someone I don't dislike as much. Bad for my baby, good for my jealousy of the 22yo German. Looks like my babe is in 7th :(

But whatever, I don't love him because he's a championship skiier...or because he's extremely hot...or because he loves dogs and is a polyglot and is extremely hot (oh wait, I already said that). I love him because of who he is INSIDE -- which is an extremely hot championship skiier polyglot dog-lover ;p

VC