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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Unfortunately the season ends way too early, spring skiing in Lapland is magical. I would love to have something similar to Lapponia in the world cup. 3 stages in 4 days, 60, 50, 80 km freestyle. We could add some very hilly and long stages in classic style as well similar to e.g. Reistadlöpet...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Central Europe + Warm weather = Finnish wax techs completely clueless.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Did you read and understand my post? Of course there is a difference between fluor and non fluor waxes (in pretty much all conditions, but especially in wet ones), but that's not the question at all. The question is old, banned long-chained "C8" fluor waxes vs new, completely legal short-chained...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    New, purified, and PFOA-free fluorinated waxes (so called C6 fluorides) are still completely legal in biathlon and cross-country skiing, and you can buy them from many brands (see e.g. https://rex.fi/en/topcoatings/future-fluor-top-coatings), whereas the old, impure waxes with longer fluoride...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Iivo hinted in the Finnish interviews that he's currently under a very heavy training load and is expecting to become a lot better in the races to come. If he manages to nail his preparations, he will be strong in Planica, but will that be enough to beat JHK and the Norwegian armada who maybe...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    The standard Oberstdorf 3,3 km loop only includes the small Burgstall with MC 33 m.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Sweden, Finland, Italy, and Norway launched the proposal to revert back to a pursuit, and Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, GB, and Australia supported it. In other words, there were 2 significant omissions from the list: USA and France. USA pushing for a mass start was not surprising, to say the...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    You should appreciate the guy, 20 km is a good distance for him. 12th in Ruka (3rd time of the day), 15th in Lillehammer, and 11th in Davos. He's not a natural talent like many others and he doesn't have the VO2max and speed to fight in 10 km races, but he has a big aerobic engine with high...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    For instance, this is what happened in Falun 2015.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    He was glad that the issue was finally dealt with. Obviously, he wished that it would have been done much quicker, already after Lahti. Blame FIS for being too slow.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    In theory, yes, the World Championships could start earlier, but FIS loves its Tour de Ski. If the worlds began before the Alpine Worlds, few athletes from the Scandinavian countries would participate in the Tour. That can already be seen during the olympics years to some extent, and it could be...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Having a pursuit based on a 15 km mass start is a complete joke. FIS seems to hate interval starts, too bad. At least there is the altitude and the competitions are organized in the first place.
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Already this year if the pandemic doesn't force the local organizers to shorten the loop like they did last year. The plan is to do 5x10 km. If they can't use the track to Frognerseteren because of the risk for spectators, it will most likely be converted back to mass start with 8x6,3km. Of...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    Yeah, according to some Finnish media Mäki's hand got hurt by the tip of the pole when Bolshunov hit him, not by the tackle after the finish line. Mäki himself doesn't know what happened, it all happened too fast. The police report is irrelevant, done by some random citizen. The police will...
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    Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

    The experts at NRK, YLE and FIS all agree that Mäki was ahead and had a right to choose whichever corridor he wanted for the finishing straight. I agree with you that what Mäki did was unsportsmanlike, but it was within the rules. FWIW, Mäki didn't even get a verbal warning.
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