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Mayomaniac

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OJRvE said:
I think it’s a general problem the Swedish men spend too much time in the gym. The women’s gym program is very successfu and their coach previously worked as a performance coach within Ice Hockey. But they have less muscles to begin with and focusing on strength training means they can use higher gears in skiing (Jonna Sundling is probably the best example of that). For the men I think the strength training are causing more muscles to oxygenate without giving any obvious benefit.
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Tbf, in person Anger looked skinnier than last year at the Tour de Ski and I read an article where he talked about loosing weight for the Olympics. With him specifically it could probably be that. With the rest it could really be the classic Calle "beach muscle training in the gym" approach... That said, maybe Italy should send Chiocchetti over to train with the Swedish men. The guy is over 2m tall, but one of the skinniest skiers and needs to work on his double poling power and technique (his diagonal stride is actually better).
 
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QueenStagiaire said:
Maybe the German Men‘s Biathlon team just needs to switch the World Cup and IBU Cup coaching staff and all that. After locking out the podium in the last IBU Cup pursuit over in Europe three weeks ago, they‘ve gone to Lake Placid (without Pfund who‘s probably going to Kontiolahti) and taken 1-2-3-4 in the Short Individual there.
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Very mid performances though
 
OJRvE

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Mayomaniac said:
Tbf, in person Anger looked skinnier than last year at the Tour de Ski and I read an article where he talked about loosing weight for the Olympics. With him specifically it could probably be that. With the rest it could really be the classic Calle "beach muscle training in the gym" approach... That said, maybe Italy should send Chiocchetti over to train with the Swedish men. The guy is over 2m tall, but one of the skinniest skiers and needs to work on his double poling power and technique (his diagonal stride is actually better).
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I am not sure if Anger lost weigth, he still look very big too me. He admitted the preparations was messed up and will never preamp with the team again. Most of Swedish team had the precamp in Seefeld but of the ones with big sucess only Svahn was there. Karlsson in Lavaze, Sundling & Dahlqvist in Seiser Alm and Andersson i Sweden. Now I heard Anger got an ear infection and is probably out for the remainder of the season
 
KZD

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Klæbo switching to cycling makes 0 sense, if anything he could try switching to biathlon but even that seems very unlikely.
 
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Eddy Evenepoel

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KZD said:
Klæbo switching to cycling makes 0 sense, if anything he could try switching to biathlon but even that seems very unlikely.
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That's almost even less likely in my opinion. Changing to cycling (which obviousely wont happen) would be a completely new challenge in a new environment which gives a whole lot of new possibilities training wise, while changing to biathlon would "only" be very small changes.

And unlike many (most?) other countries, in Norway the CX skiers are on the top of the pyramide not the biathletes. It reminds me of one time Cologna got a question "Why dont you do Biathlon?" and he said something along the line of "When you're good enough in XC skiing you dont have to do biathlon". I think that's a mindset that is also widespread among the Norwegian XC skiers. After the season opening in Beito there were some shots fired from the biathletes and Golberg who was working as an expert for NRK shot a bit back.
 
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not that I think it's super likely, but it really hurt his XC preparation much to do a couple of cycling races during the summer? A mainly promotional kind of signing is maybe not completely out of the picture.
 
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Lozbers making short work of the opposition in the Short Individual at the Youth WC, putting 2 minutes in course time alone into everybody over 12.5 km. Early bib didn't hurt either today.
 
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QueenStagiaire

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kingjr said:
Lozbers making short work of the opposition in the Short Individual at the Youth WC, putting 2 minutes in course time alone into everybody over 12.5 km. Early bib didn't hurt either today.
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You know you‘re good when you could have missed six on a 12.5k Individual against two year older opposition and still medaled.
 
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Samu Cuenca

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Strong performance, but I am not sure I've ever heard of any of the guys he's up against. Tanguy Fellay sounds like a meat product aimed at the kind of man who enjoys a higher risk of developing skin cancer.
 
QueenStagiaire

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One of the Hungarian guys apparently only hit one singular target in the first prone, then missed everything, one of the French has missed twelve as well even though the wind looks managable.
 
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Crazy spring onditions on my home loops for the juniors. Fastest guy on the 15km track was almost 44 minutes and crazy gaps behind him. I know it's a juniors race but even there i have hardly ever seen gaps like thst ove 15 and 12,5 km. That Losbers guy pitting in 2 minutes on the next best guys is insane.
 
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Attendance abysmal at the WC in Falun today. This is Sweden we're talking about here; if I was a potential sponsor I doubt I would be particularly interested in investing money into this.
 
Mayomaniac

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dobrien said:
Attendance abysmal at the WC in Falun today. This is Sweden we're talking about here; if I was a potential sponsor I doubt I would be particularly interested in investing money into this.
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Tbf, yesterday they had a really big crowd.
The difference between the skis looks almost comical...
 
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Mayomaniac said:
Tbf, yesterday they had a really big crowd.
The difference between the skis looks almost comical...
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I was not able to watch yesterday so did not know that; thx. That said, I have been a long time fan of Nordic skiing and if my interest in this is waning I can't imagine I am alone in that...

The ski thing is my least favorite part of the sport tbh, ridiculous.
 
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Eddy Evenepoel said:
a World Cup in Falun at the same day as Vasaloppet is bound to lose a lot of spectators..
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Ahhh, yes, that too, totally gapped out the Vasaloppet being today. Pardon me now while I go back and delete my post and deny having ever made it! :p

I think I still owe you a response to your post awhile back regarding Laukli; looks like I'm behind on my homework... ;)
 
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OJRvE

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I think its a bit stupid to race this weekend right after the Olympics but I suppose the reason is they want to organize in all three (four with Drammen) Nordic venues and Lake Placid
 
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