Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[Bavarianrider]

Sorry but this is a complete joke. In Nagano 1998 they had no gate rule, no Wind rule, no artificial run in, yet , of course they were able to finish the competition in the most astrocius conditions. Ski jumping has become so ridicilously artificial.
That being said, why not stop the competition and continue the next day.
Fis doing Fis things isn't a cross country thing only.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Sorry but this is a complete joke. In Nagano 1998 they had no gate rule, no Wind rule, no artificial run in, yet , of course they were able to finish the competition in the most astrocius conditions. Ski jumping has become so ridicilously artificial.
That being said, why not stop the competition and continue the next day.
Fis doing Fis things isn't a cross country thing only.

A proper team competition would have been nice, to begin with. They could also have started a few minutes earlier if the weather was potentially sketchy later on.

If they were going to go with the Super Team silliness, then I don't understand why it's men only either.

FIS doing FIS things, as you say, but you have to feel for the guys like Raimund and especially Nikaido, who got absolutely screwed there.

 

[Bavarianrider]

A proper team competition would have been nice, to begin with. They could also have started a few minutes earlier if the weather was potentially sketchy later on.

If they were going to go with the Super Team silliness, then I don't understand why it's men only either.

FIS doing FIS things, as you say, but you have to feel for the guys like Raimund and especially Nikaido, who got absolutely screwed there.

I think the reason for the new format is due to the new quota regulations. However, if we are honest, there are simply too few countries that can have a 4 man team anyway to justify a competition.

 

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Edit: now it seems they cancelled it, the Austrians and Poles are celebrating, the Germans and Japanese are really hard done by, the Poles and Norwegians get saved by the snow (especially the Poles, as Sundal had yet to jump in the weather. Wasek had already dropped them off the podium before Tomasiak had to jump in the snow) while Nikaido's jump being annulled means that Japan drop back from 2nd place to 6th - and Raimund pulled off a brilliant jump in the horrendous conditions that is all for nothing. Reminiscent of the time at Hochfilzen Simon Fourcade pulled off 10/10 and possibly his best ever race in horrendous wind and heavy snow, only for the weather to clear up later in the session and for him to not even end up on the podium.

even as a German, I must say that it was the right decision. Raimund did a great jump, but the break before him was also much shorter, so he had faster conditions. It was just totally unfair, starting with Prevc, and no way to still turn it around. The mistake was done before, when they didn't speed up on time.

 

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If they were going to go with the Super Team silliness, then I don't understand why it's men only either.

the women just got the large hill event on top for 2026. Not unusual for IOC to do things step by step.