Recent content by DenisMenchov

Big climb stage he talks about is 2km ascent up the alpine track at the end of every Tour de Ski race. Skis are not important in that stage because they use the so called freestyle technique where you climb up the mountain in V shape and wax has minimum effect there, as it's basically just a run...

Are you sure about that? In Bejing 20222 the conditions were very specific and you can see the results.

If you watched 50km for Men on Saturday you could see the difference the skiis make. On one side you have Iversen from Norway and then on the other you have Korostelev, who was an independent athlete. In the start list it doesn't look like Korostelev is at a disadvantage here, You can think...

Yes, this would've been an even easier gold for him than XC Sprint.

No salt, so pretty slushy for later starters, Klaebo has the perfect position.

Biggest race of the Olympics tomorrow. The only one that can stop Klaebo from magical 6 golds. Frida can actually get 5 as well, I see no reason not to put her in team sprint with this form.

Crazy fast time - sub 23 minutes. We might have an Olympic champion with sub 20 result tomorrow. I bet that never happened in a distance race.

I was the first person not to dig into Diggins, but you guys are way way too harsh towards her. Apart from her flamboyancy, she's been nothing but a great competitor. She, unlike many Americans in other sports, always performs during the World Cup stages, she honors Tour de Ski literally every...

Well yes, like I said the only guy that could possibly drop him is obviously Bolshunov. But we can add 10 more Russians here and I still think Klaebo wins. VDF just suits him perfectly. Whereas Beijing was exact opposite.

Yes, but he has no control of it. He was literally congratulated today among first by Saveliy.

I don't think much of the hate comes because of him, but from the fact that races are getting tailored towards him. Cutting distances, shorter climbs, joke Trondheim courses... And in fact I think he himself doesn't like that. I honestly think that in 30k he would also win today. Maybe even...

You can't say Norwegians raced for Klaebo this time. He's just unstoppable for them. The only guy that could drop him was not here, but that's some other issue. Klaebo is the GOAT of XC skiing.

For some, I follow Frida on Instagram, and you could see that she was training at altitude for weeks while others were at the World Cup races. Ever since Tour de Ski I knew she was going to smoke the Olympics, exact same thing happened last year, but she did seem to be peaking better this time...

Yes she did. https://swedenherald.com/article/svahns-message-not-boycotting-the-olympics https://112.ua/en/svedska-liznica-bojkotue-olimpiadu-2026-cerez-dopusk-rosian-99303

Svahn said today that she will not boycott the Olympics now that the Russians are allowed. A 180 degree turn after claiming for years that she would never compete with "them" while Russia is in war with Ukraine. I'm really puzzled by what changed her mind. Maybe there was a lot of pressure...