Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[Mayomaniac]

apparently Myhlback will go no-wax again. double poling the entire course. Don't think VdF is best suited for that, but someone doing things different could add some interest, at least.

The old course where Svensson won once ok,but no wax on this one?
The Italian women with an impressivd qualifier, 3 inside the top 10

 

[kingjr]

Julia Kern skiing with Heidi Bucher's transponder lol. Joensuu and Fähndrich already out.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Fähndrich out in the quarterfinal was not on my list...

 

[dobrien]

Matintalo looking solid; maybe some hope against the Swedish armada!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Hagstroem out in the Quarterfinal as well

 

[Mayomaniac]

All aboard the Myhlback Vril wagon!

 

[dobrien]

Matintalo skis not great

 

[search]

conditions changed a lot since the start. There may be some more struggling with ski speed

 

[dobrien]

This is playing in Sundling's favor imho, it's a grinders race now. The finalists my be feeling this Thursday.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Meh, I was cheering for Jonna over Svahn...

 

[No Excuses]

That was pure demolition

 

[KZD]

What a humiliation from the Swedish trio. Svahn really deserves her gold after the injuries she had during her career. Drivenes the surprise of the day in fourth.

As for the men's, not much to say, Klæbo is by far the best sprinter ever, Ogden was brilliant today in second and Tuz the surprise of the day.

 

[BigCoward]

Is Perrot not aware this is 20k? Absolutely flying on the track.

 

[BigCoward]

Botn having quite the breakthrough season. Real shame he missed those races.

Nice for him after what happened with Bakken also.

 

[Brullnux]

Botn impeccable - him and Perrot were the most likely candidates I think for the individual so nice to see they lived up to it. Laegreid shot and skied so well.


Looking forward, I think the top two are favourites still but Giacomel, Dale-Skjevdal, QFM, Uldal and the Swedes will be closer in penalty loop races. That said, Samuelsson looked relatively slow.

Very hard to see past Simon or Jeanmonnot tomorrow.

 

[meat puppet]

What a humiliation from the Swedish trio. Svahn really deserves her gold after the injuries she had during her career. Drivenes the surprise of the day in fourth.

As for the men's, not much to say, Klæbo is by far the best sprinter ever, Ogden was brilliant today in second and Tuz the surprise of the day.

Vuorinen did better than I expected. Being more of an endurance sprinter, he should not have hesitated on the first third of the finale, but gone with the trio. Probably it didn't matter, he was cooked on the final hill.

Tuz was the most entertaining for sure.

 

[Salvarani]

Laegreid has stolen the headlines with his bronze

 

[Bavarianrider]

Klaebo s explosiveness is simply out of this World. At least they had a rattert long Sprint course, i have give them props for that.

 

[Brullnux]

Laegreid lol, what a loser...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Can Norway affort to bring Skistad to the teamsprint? If the race gets blown apart earlier they could end up with no medal that way...

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Can Norway affort to bring Skistad to the teamsprint? If the race gets blown apart earlier they could end up with no medal that way...

If they select her they are obviously mentally challenged… it has to be Weng, Slind or Fosnæs together with Drivenes. Slind or Fosnæs more likely I think, given they have been doing a couple of teamsprints in the world cup.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Laegreid has stolen the headlines with his bronze

Lindsey Vonn was one thing, but Laegreid's confession is truly soap opera material. Yikez.

 

[BigCoward]

I've done some cringe stuff drunk in my youth, but never sober with the world watching. What a weapon.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I was the first person not to dig into Diggins, but you guys are way way too harsh towards her. Apart from her flamboyancy, she's been nothing but a great competitor. She, unlike many Americans in other sports, always performs during the World Cup stages, she honors Tour de Ski literally every year, something no other XC skier does. She massively improved her classic technique and endurance in late years. There's really nothing bad about her, once again it's not her fault English speaking media is shoving her up our throats, who else are they going to hype?

I've said it 100 times, I find her "it's not enough to have fun, I have to show you how much fun I'm having and you must acknowledge what a fun and bubbly person I am or I will make myself even MORE fun and bubbly" and her histrionics at every start/finish to be obnoxious and irritating.

It's not her fault that the over hype has spiralled my dislike of her into full-on "go away heat", but I would really dislike her even without the hype.

It is stupid to have her run the whole program including the classic sprint when she looked so far off the pace at the weekend, though, yes.

 

[kingjr]

Laegreid lol, what a loser...

"Maybe it was really selfish of me to give that interview."

hmmm, yeah, maybe