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Waterloo Sunrise said:Are those lanes just dotted on for show? Surely Sundby should be relegated for blatant and crucial blocking of a home athlete, which was the only way he stayed ahead.
roundabout said:Apart from Olsson it seems the favorite tactic for major mass start events is to do very little until the last hill and hope for the best.
Waterloo Sunrise said:Are those lanes just dotted on for show? Surely Sundby should be relegated for blatant and crucial blocking of a home athlete, which was the only way he stayed ahead.
roundabout said:Apart from Olsson it seems the favorite tactic for major mass start events is to do very little until the last hill and hope for the best.
This one's in front of a Russian crowd though. It was a bit daft but I guess if he gets away with it he gets a medal, if he doesn't get away with it he loses nothing.Bavarianrider said:Well, Norwegians can always do what they want. If it was the other way round, there would have been a relegation for sure.
Impressive win by Cologna. Norwegians didn't look to good at all. All of a sudden it seems that Sweden could win the relay.
Bavarianrider said:I wonder what will happen in the relay. Surely they can't let Northug do the last leg.
kingjr said:So far he hasn't disapponted in relays. He was rubbish already 4 years ago in the Skiathlon, and look what he did on his loop in the relay.
kingjr said:So far he hasn't disapponted in relays. He was rubbish already 4 years ago in the Skiathlon, and look what he did on his loop in the relay.
Bavarianrider said:Well, Vancouver didn't have that long climb to the finish.
Walkman said:No, you are wrong.
He was in the top-6 group with Hellner and Legkov but broke his pole in the last kilometer or so.
As if the russians would ever win a medalpython said:The pictures clearly show martin almost cutting off vyleg in the last meters..and winning by .1 sec
the russians launched a protest. the norwegian TV2 expert fredrik aukland admitted what sundby did was strictly illegal.
http://www.tv2.no/2014/02/09/sport/sotsji/langrenn/ol/5300432#
The result ?
martin broke rules, gets a written warning but….. keeps his medal.
if a russian broke any rules at the finish, would he keep his medal ?
perhaps it is time to revive conversations about lack of favouritism in fis lead by a norwegian ?
Why do you think so?python said:objectively, i think sundby was the strongest