Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[Libertine Seguros]

S?dergren going for broke, Vyleg chasing with Olsson on his tail.

 

[Kokoso]

Bauer didn't change ski when almost everobody did. I fear he f****d it. Clearly now he has big problem with wax uphill. Shame cause he clearly has great form.

 

[meat puppet]

Sadly i dont see an attacker surviving to the finish line from the top of the m?rdarbacken tbh. Or the gap must be 20 sec plus.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Bauer didn't change ski when almost everobody did. I fear he f****d it. Clearly now he has big problem with wax uphill. Shame cause he clearly has great form.

He might get away with it though, cos of the slow pace up front, he's got the new skis in the last 5k, he's back in the group, and they're gliding well. As you say, his form is good. If he can get back up among the front few before M?rdarbacken, who knows?

 

[python]

Bauer didn't change ski when almost everobody did. I fear he f****d it. Clearly now he has big problem with wax uphill. Shame cause he clearly has great form.

looks like he did everything right !

was back and now leading...

 

[Bavarianrider]

So this is a mass start because of german Tv, yet they didn't even show the first half of the race: And the race is a 48km borefest, what a supriserolleyes:

 

[Kokoso]

looks like he did everything right !

was back and now leading...

I was wrong.

Everybody except Bauer trying to do everything for Northug to win. Bauer is hero.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So this is a mass start because of german Tv, yet they didn't even show the first half of the race: And the race is a 48km borefest, what a supriserolleyes:

Actually, the first half of the race was quite interesting, then the weather came in and the second half was a pack race as expected.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Male cross country skiers gotta be the most stupid persons on this planet.

Softpedaling Northug to an easy gold again

 

[Libertine Seguros]

**** this sport.

 

[Lupetto]

Here comes the legend!!!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Meanwhile, at Li?ge-Bastogne-Li?ge 2014...

 

[roundabout]

gah. when Northug was 4th coming into the stadium I was this close to throwing the remote at my TV

 

[Bavarianrider]

Well, that's what you get when you take your foot of the pedal from km 25 to km 45.

 

[kingjr]

Haters gonna hate. I don't like Northug either, but he is definitely the only one who seems to be using his brain in this sport.

 

[meat puppet]

**** this sport.

Yup quoted for truth. Also one could say that there were too long continuous downhills ensuring that all gaps surely get neutralised

 

[Kokoso]

Thanks Bauer for giving us little chance that Northug won't win. Shame on everbody else but.

Also I think Bauer gave an answer on topic Olsson vs. Bauer. I'm very glad for him, I think there is nobody who wouldn't wish him this medal.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Haters gonna hate. I don't like Northug either, but he is definitely the only one who seems to be using his brain in this sport.

Simon Gerrans uses his brain, but nobody likes watching him race. Apart from a couple of athletes I will spare (Bauer, Olsson in the first half of the race, S?dergren) they all played into Northug's hands.

The fact that he's an obnoxious, unlikable *** the rest of the time just serves to make the "I hate watching you race" haters into "I want you to go away" haters. For all the moaning I do about Martin Fourcade, it's only in the races he bothers me. Northug is objectionable at almost all times.

 

[Walkman]

Also I think Bauer gave an answer on topic Olsson vs. Bauer. I'm very glad for him, I think there is nobody who wouldn't wish him this medal.

Huh?

Bauer did not do as much work as Olsson and was lucky.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Huh?

Bauer did not do as much work as Olsson and was lucky.

Olson did ****ing nothing meaningful in the second half of the race

 

[Walkman]

Olson did ****ing nothing meaningful in the second half of the race

Because he realized it was useless. He tried all he could but the weather was too bad.

 

[Kokoso]

Huh?

Bauer did not do as much work as Olsson and was lucky.

Huh? Bauer did all the work last five kilometres or so, when it really mattered. Olsson worked before when it was useless and than nothing. How was he lucky?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Northug, Olsson, Bauer and S?dergren are about the only athletes who can come away from today with any fondness tactically. Olsson worked hard early on to force the selection, but once the weather changed he settled in and got a medal. Bauer had good form and gambled on the late ski change, and it paid off, he led from the front and pushed the pace on the last lap. S?dergren did a lot of pacing and tried a solo break which was perhaps inevitably doomed.

Maybe Vylegzhanin, as he had all the momentum coming into the last small climbs, however Bauer saw him trying to attack and shut the door on him into the stadium, he lost all momentum and that cost him a medal. Vyleg would have been on the outside anyway, so maybe in retrospect Bauer should have gone right and closed the door on Northug rather than Vyleg, but Vyleg was the more immediate threat as he was right on Bauer's heels into the stadium while Northug was coming from further back.

 

[Walkman]

Huh? Bauer did all the work last five kilometres or so, when it really mattered. Olsson worked before when it was useless and than nothing. How was he lucky?

Skis. Had fresh during the last 5k.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Because he realized it was useless. He tried all he could but the weather was too bad.

No that way of thought is exactly the problem.
Everyone races not to lose, nobody races to win.
While Olson wouldnt have dropped everybody, keeping a high pace would have certainly cracked Northug, just like in the Skiathlon.