Live timing tells me that Johaug didn't win? Whaat?! And who would have expected Stina Nilsson to be the first one all season to beat Johaug in a distance race?
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massive showing there indeed. If I didn't do any mistakes, with the two worst results striked out, the standings are as following now:zarnack said:Kuzmina the only person in the field to shoot clean and win by 2 minutes? Huh, didn't expect that. Perfect way to end her career, like Domracheva last year.
By the way, can anyone see Kuzmina winning the mass-start with both Wierer and Vittozzi flopping, thus Kuzmina taking a shock overall World Cup globe victory?
search said:massive showing there indeed. If I didn't do any mistakes, with the two worst results striked out, the standings are as following now:zarnack said:Kuzmina the only person in the field to shoot clean and win by 2 minutes? Huh, didn't expect that. Perfect way to end her career, like Domracheva last year.
By the way, can anyone see Kuzmina winning the mass-start with both Wierer and Vittozzi flopping, thus Kuzmina taking a shock overall World Cup globe victory?
Wierer 875
Vittozzi 852
Kuzmina 838
Olsbu 823
so if Kuzmina wins again tomorrow, she'd need Wierer to finish 18+ and Vittozzi 4+ to take the globe.
Wierer needs to finish 6th or better to be on the safe side, no matter what happens
Pole did not break. It was broken by another "sportsman". 15 nations competed, any guesses who did that? Norwegian Toenseth.Bavarianrider said:Oh well Norwegian xc skiers displaying their legendary sportsmanship and fair Play once again. Attackig when Bolshunov's pole breaks. Classy as always
Bavarianrider said:Oh well Norwegian xc skiers displaying their legendary sportsmanship and fair Play once again. Attackig when Bolshunov's pole breaks. Classy as always
Rider said:Pole did not break. It was broken by another "sportsman". 15 nations competed, any guesses who did that? Norwegian Toenseth.Bavarianrider said:Oh well Norwegian xc skiers displaying their legendary sportsmanship and fair Play once again. Attackig when Bolshunov's pole breaks. Classy as always
BullsFan22 said:Rider said:Pole did not break. It was broken by another "sportsman". 15 nations competed, any guesses who did that? Norwegian Toenseth.Bavarianrider said:Oh well Norwegian xc skiers displaying their legendary sportsmanship and fair Play once again. Attackig when Bolshunov's pole breaks. Classy as always
Do we have a replay of that incident? FIS and local broadcaster didn't show it. Would love to see what exactly happened.
Why just her right hand was (twice) so young and unexperienced to shoot at Belorukova face? Watch the video again, it was intentional.zarnack said:I think you have to give Frida Karlsson a bit of a break. She is just so young and inexperienced at this stage...
Don't you see that he is pushing with the rest of the broken pole?MrRoboto said:Bolshunov seems to put his pole close to his ski.
MrRoboto said:Edit: Sorry, this was just after he broke the pole.
Yeah, I was a bit quick, it was the push after he broke the pole. Still not seeing what Toenseth -- or anyone else but Bolshunov -- has to do with the breaking though.Rider said:Don't you see that he is pushing with the rest of the broken pole?
Nope. Also late.MrRoboto said:This is the moment he breaks the pole. Can't see it properly, but he' must have slightly missed when putting a lot of power into it.
MrRoboto said:MrRoboto said:Edit: Sorry, this was just after he broke the pole.
This is the moment he breaks the pole. Can't see it properly, but he' must have slightly missed when putting a lot of power into it.
You wrongly judge on a picture taken few seconds after a pole was broken.bambino said:MrRoboto said:MrRoboto said:Edit: Sorry, this was just after he broke the pole.
This is the moment he breaks the pole. Can't see it properly, but he' must have slightly missed when putting a lot of power into it.
Either he indeed just pushed in bit wrong anckle and broke it, or it went under the skis of Harvey. I predict the first option, some skiers told after race that the poles suncked into snow at least 10cm with every push because of really soft snow. The pole also seemed to broke from the middle, which kind of indicates it was not because it went under skis.
Either way Toenseth definitely had nothing to do with that as suggested by Rider.
Rider said:Nope. Also late.MrRoboto said:This is the moment he breaks the pole. Can't see it properly, but he' must have slightly missed when putting a lot of power into it.
It's this or the push before that, kinda hard to see, but the one before looks fine, so then he would have to have broken it just after the initial push. Either way nothing to do with Toenseth.Rider said:You wrongly judge on a picture taken few seconds after a pole was broken.
Rider said:You wrongly judge on a picture taken few seconds after a pole was broken.bambino said:MrRoboto said:MrRoboto said:Edit: Sorry, this was just after he broke the pole.
This is the moment he breaks the pole. Can't see it properly, but he' must have slightly missed when putting a lot of power into it.
Either he indeed just pushed in bit wrong anckle and broke it, or it went under the skis of Harvey. I predict the first option, some skiers told after race that the poles suncked into snow at least 10cm with every push because of really soft snow. The pole also seemed to broke from the middle, which kind of indicates it was not because it went under skis.
Either way Toenseth definitely had nothing to do with that as suggested by Rider.
Yep. You watched the translation (of the race), so you did NOT see the moment.bambino said:Rider said:You wrongly judge on a picture taken few seconds after a pole was broken.bambino said:MrRoboto said:MrRoboto said:Edit: Sorry, this was just after he broke the pole.
This is the moment he breaks the pole. Can't see it properly, but he' must have slightly missed when putting a lot of power into it.
Either he indeed just pushed in bit wrong anckle and broke it, or it went under the skis of Harvey. I predict the first option, some skiers told after race that the poles suncked into snow at least 10cm with every push because of really soft snow. The pole also seemed to broke from the middle, which kind of indicates it was not because it went under skis.
Either way Toenseth definitely had nothing to do with that as suggested by Rider.
Nope I watched the race live and replies after. I agree this picture is late. But Toenseth was meters away from Bolshu also when it happened. If someone else broke it, it was Harvey. He was arguably too close to Bolshu there.