Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[No Excuses]

This is the biggest choke i have seen in a while. You might think Karlsson and Andersson alone can gain a minute.

 

[search]

Teams for tomorrow are out as well. Another upset is probably too much to ask for, even if the Frenchmen are some kind of relay specialists.

Iversen instead of Amundsen looked like a minor risk when it was first announced, but he is mainly facing sprinters anyway.

NOR Iversen - Nyenget - Hedegart - Klaebo
SUI Grond - Wigger - Klee - Riebli
SWE Haeggstroem - Halfvarsson - Poromaa - Anger
FRA Schely - Lapalus - Desloges - Lovera
CAN McKeever - Cyr - Drolet - Stephen
ITA Graz - Barp - Carollo - Pellegrino
USA Ogden - Schumacher - Hagenbuch - Ketterson
GER Brugger - F Moch - Notz - Stölben
FIN Vuorinen - Niskanen - Ruuskanen - Anttola
CZE Tuz - Novak - Bauer - Ophoff

 

[BigCoward]

Maybe Hedegart messes up his pacing again and we get a race.

 

[kingjr]

Teams for tomorrow are out as well. Another upset is probably too much to ask for, even if the Frenchmen are some kind of relay specialists.

Iversen instead of Amundsen looked like a minor risk when it was first announced, but he is mainly facing sprinters anyway.

NOR Iversen - Nyenget - Hedegart - Klaebo
SUI Grond - Wigger - Klee - Riebli
SWE Haeggstroem - Halfvarsson - Poromaa - Anger
FRA Schely - Lapalus - Desloges - Lovera
CAN McKeever - Cyr - Drolet - Stephen
ITA Graz - Barp - Carollo - Pellegrino
USA Ogden - Schumacher - Hagenbuch - Ketterson
GER Brugger - F Moch - Notz - Stölben
FIN Vuorinen - Niskanen - Ruuskanen - Anttola
CZE Tuz - Novak - Bauer - Ophoff

This is so dire lol

 

[YavorD]

Gonna be iconic if we see another Jorgen Brink.
Perhaps we can see a Valnes or Amundsen (in the relay) climb?

Indeed we saw another disaster in Val Di Fiemme.
It wasn't Norwegian though, it was swedish..again. 23 years later.
Swedish women decided to do what Norway did in Sochi, though they at least got a medal.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Top 15 for Denmark, what the hell?
Edit: Top 16

Since we couldn't get Hedegart (yet) we have to be happy for for the Norwegians we can import

Joking aside, this is a huge result for De Besche, and it also made her good friend Tandrevold very excited. Having both a man and a woman qualified for the pursuit is a fantastic achievement for the Danish team.

Lucas Braathen wasn't available to us, but Danish-Austrian Christian Borgnæs finishing 20th in the men's Super G was also quite pleasing.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Teams for tomorrow are out as well. Another upset is probably too much to ask for, even if the Frenchmen are some kind of relay specialists.

Iversen instead of Amundsen looked like a minor risk when it was first announced, but he is mainly facing sprinters anyway.

NOR Iversen - Nyenget - Hedegart - Klaebo
SUI Grond - Wigger - Klee - Riebli
SWE Haeggstroem - Halfvarsson - Poromaa - Anger
FRA Schely - Lapalus - Desloges - Lovera
CAN McKeever - Cyr - Drolet - Stephen
ITA Graz - Barp - Carollo - Pellegrino
USA Ogden - Schumacher - Hagenbuch - Ketterson
GER Brugger - F Moch - Notz - Stölben
FIN Vuorinen - Niskanen - Ruuskanen - Anttola
CZE Tuz - Novak - Bauer - Ophoff

Graz is better in skating, I would have swapped first and 3rd leg.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Graz is better in skating, I would have swapped first and 3rd leg.

That makes like zero sense. Carollo was 7th in the 10km and has been twice top 10 in skating this year, while his best classic result has been almost constantly horrible. Graz have had some decent classic races, and was top 10 in Oberhof a couple of weeks ago for example.

If Graz was to do skating it should be Pellegrino doing classic.

 

[Silhouette]

Iversen instead of Amundsen looked like a minor risk when it was first announced, but he is mainly facing sprinters anyway.

I don't understand why we (Norway) keep putting in guys who haven't competed yet in the relay. We've done this too many times and I don't see why we need to do that this year unless Amundsen is sick again. It's always a risk even with athletes who have had a good season and we seem to prefer to take that risk instead of going with reasonably safe choices.

 

[BigCoward]

Would Russia be able to drop the first 3 to stop Klaebo just following Bolshunov, and kicking his a$$ in the last 500m is the question.

 

[BullsFan22]

Would Russia be able to drop the first 3 to stop Klaebo just following Bolshunov, and kicking his a$$ in the last 500m is the question.

They did it comfortably in the 2022 Olympic relay.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I don't understand why we (Norway) keep putting in guys who haven't competed yet in the relay. We've done this too many times and I don't see why we need to do that this year unless Amundsen is sick again. It's always a risk even with athletes who have had a good season and we seem to prefer to take that risk instead of going with reasonably safe choices.

Because it's Emil co-pilot Iversen's god given right to be in the relay after they select him, apparently.
Honestly, I was kinda surprised he didn't get to start in the skiathlon.

 

[No Excuses]

Maybe Hedegart messes up his pacing again and we get a race.

Not gonna happen. And Hede still did good. It's not like he blew up big time.

 

[BigCoward]

They did it comfortably in the 2022 Olympic relay.

Norway won in 2002 and Russia were 6th, what's your point?