Nordic Skiing/Biathlon Thread

[meat puppet]

Karlsson out.

 

[dobrien]

Karlsson out.

Putting my (metaphorical, as I don't gamble) money on Astrid.

 

[meat puppet]

Slind is the woman to beat, yes. Niskanen might be good as well, not that I want her (or the bro) to.

 

[dobrien]

Slind is the woman to beat, yes. Niskanen might be good as well, not that I want her (or the bro) to.

What do you not like about Kerttu?

 

[Forever The Best]

Nice final to biathlon women's mass start.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

At the moment the Norwegians throw so much money at it that no one else can hope to compete, .

The Swedes have a wax budget that is like 95% of what Norway have, so you kind of have to wonder what the he** they are spending their money on.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The Swedes have a wax budget that is like 95% of what Norway have, so you kind of have to wonder what the he** they are spending their money on.

Footing hotel bills for damage caused by Frida Karlsson because she decided to use her room as a gym rather than using the actual facilities provided.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Footing hotel bills for damage caused by Frida Karlsson because she decided to use her room as a gym rather than using the actual facilities provided.

That would probably be placed other places than wax team expenses

 

[BigCoward]

There's nothing stopping the smaller countries pooling their waxing budgets is there?

 

[meat puppet]

What do you not like about Kerttu?

I just dislike the traditionalist (competitive) skiing culture that continues to prevail in Fin. You know the drill: the elevation of classic, individual start races as something otherworldly, and the derived hyperbole about who really is the best. Demotion of speed, skills and skate.

The siblings, and particularly their media representations, are the latest batch of inputs for the reproduction of this culture. Cultural frames and ideas matter, and to me not challenging this is nostalgic and self-defeating as a competitive strategy.

I know the majority opinion in this thread would be in support of such a distance/classic emphasis, and that's understandable given how the sport is being managed by FIS and commented on in other national contexts. Our wintertons are different, put it that way.

 

[Salvarani]

Ebba want redemption today

 

[Salvarani]

Slind is cooked

 

[Salvarani]

Diggins being dropped every time it goes up

Dont know how many more times she can come back in the descents

 

[Salvarani]

How long can Weng follow is the question

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Diggins getting dropped on the uphills and gliding back on, she would probably never have a better chance in 50k classic in her life even if she wasn't retiring with so many withdrawals and so many tired legs out there, but the gap seems to be really big this time.

 

[Salvarani]

Diggins looks really cooked now

Might have gone into red for too long

Those behind will catch her soon

 

[Salvarani]

Weng vs Ebba

 

[dobrien]

Lot of slipping out there

 

[Silhouette]

How are the rules on ski prep for the second pair of skis? One of the Norwegian commentators said they had to turn in the skis for testing before the start, but is it possible to adjust them in the later rounds? If not, that means you can't recover if you make a mistake and don't realize it before you start racing.

 

[dobrien]

Astrid out; what a bummer.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Theresa please remember the course this time

 

[dobrien]

Weng vs Ebba

Heidi looks up to it at the moment thankfully...nothing against Ebba, it would just be nice to see a race today.

 

[Salvarani]

Heidi looks up to it at the moment thankfully...nothing against Ebba, it would just be nice to see a race today.

Weng is more active atm and she can go the distance for sure

We will see, should be a good fight

 

[Orcs]

This is worse than men's race yesterday, 5km of racing and 45km of nothing happening. I understand why FIS wants shorter races.

 

[Salvarani]

This is worse than men's race yesterday, 5km of racing and 45km of nothing happening. I understand why FIS wants shorter races.

Its funny as they not too long ago changed it from 30km to 50km for the women. So both men and women have the same distances