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Biathlon Season Opens Without Laura Dahlmeier as Colleagues Honor Her Legacy

The World Cup opener will highlight her absence from the ZDF broadcast.

Overview

  • ZDF analyst Sven Fischer plans to keep Dahlmeier’s Ruhpolding snowshoe hike and shared meal tradition alive in her memory.
  • The German Ski Association will recognize emerging talent with the newly named Laura‑Dahlmeier‑Preis.
  • Athletes described palpable grief, with rising prospect Selina Grotian moved to tears recalling a supportive training lap with Dahlmeier in Kontiolahti.
  • The new World Cup season begins Saturday at 13:15 on ARD and Eurosport with relay races, marking the first broadcasts without Dahlmeier’s on‑air presence.
  • Dahlmeier, a two‑time Olympic champion who became a ZDF expert after retiring in 2019, died on July 28 in Pakistan in a rockfall during a descent, and her body could not be recovered.