Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[Silhouette]

I think all 3 would have skied a lot faster with new wax. But Nyenget probably wants to make the race as hard as possible, and the other two don't want to let him go alone.

 

[No Excuses]

Surprised nobody changes

 

[jsem94]

I think the only saving grace is that the Norwegians were limited to four skiers. Korostelev would probably have more of a chance if his skis were cooperative.

Nyenget ONCE AGAIN not choosing new skis, lmao.

 

[Norbea]

Interesting that Nyenget wants to grind them down on slow skis

 

[meat puppet]

Doing what he can I suppose. Not much point trying to out-speed kläbo.

I thought Niskanen was bluffing, but yeah, he was sick alright.

 

[BigCoward]

BBC iplayer showed first 40km then switched sports. Unbeleivable.

 

[No Excuses]

Crazy they still don't change

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Nobody changing skis at all!

 

[KZD]

No one changes skis, unbelievable.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Honestly, with one lap to go you could try to switch if the others don‘t and it could work

 

[Norbea]

Last chance. And no ski change. Do or die

 

[kingjr]

Race is over now

Nyenget looks resigned to me

 

[Samu Cuenca]

BBC iplayer showed first 40km then switched sports. Unbeleivable.

To be fair to them, they lasted much longer than I did.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Do they dare?

 

[No Excuses]

Iversen struggling

 

[kingjr]

The gap in ability is so vast, it's fascinating.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yea, the hammerman has come for Emil. That's the medals now sorted, the big question was which way round the minor metals would be.

 

[tobydawq]

The Danish commentators have been talking a lot about the issues with getting a frozen penis while doing cross-country skiing.

 

[No Excuses]

GOAT time

 

[kingjr]

The best we've ever seen or will ever see.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

...and he does his thing on the Zorzi climb as ever. I do dislike the way they always lay the course out with that being the last climb here, it's too decisive to be like a Northug step finish (which they've tried to replicate in Antholz with the reprofiling for these games), but it's not long enough to tilt things back towards some of the endurance specialists like Chiesa or Pojer which would introduce tension as to whether or not Klæbo could keep the attack pace up for the whole climb, whereas we know full well he can on Zorzi and nobody can even remotely go with the pace he can generate on that uphill. How Johannes is still so fresh after such a program is just wild.

 

[KZD]

Klæbo doing a Michael Phelps Beijing 2008, unbelievable Olympics.

Schely overtaking Korostelev in the last lap to take 4th.

 

[BigCoward]

What happened. Fis is showing klaebo lost by 1.8 seconds.

 

[jsem94]

The only way Johannes would not have won this one is if it were an individual start. We don't really know how he would fare, but Nyenget would have been the odds on favorite in that case.

 

[BullsFan22]

The best we've ever seen or will ever see.

Without his top rival for 4 straight seasons. His main competition these days? His own teammates. Congrats.