Finnator123 292 Posted February 26, 2017 #381 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Oh well, we still won the bronze medal So 2 medals from Lahti so far. And Niskanen/Jauhojärvi are still the defending olympic gold medalists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,263 Posted February 26, 2017 #382 Share Posted February 26, 2017 FIS NORDIC SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men's Team Sprint ClassicalFinal Results RussiaKRIUKOV Nikita USTIUGOV Sergey17:40.69 ItalyNOECKLER Dietmar PELLEGRINO Federico17:42.83 FinlandJAUHOJAERVI Sami NISKANEN Iivo17:49.33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women's Team Sprint ClassicalFinal Results NorwayWENG Heidi FALLA Maiken Caspersen20:20.56 RussiaBELORUKOVA Yulia MATVEEVA Natalia20:26.12 United StatesBJORNSEN SadieDIGGINS Jessica20:38.94 No lack of excitement in Team Sprint at Lahti 2017 Norway and Russia have won the gold medals at today's Team Sprint competition at the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland. For the ladies from Norway it was their 3rd consecutive win in the team sprint event. They previously won in Sochi OWG 2014 and Falun WSC 2015. They become the first nation to win 3 in a row in this event. The silver medal went to Russia who finished +5.56 back of Norway. After a very strong performance from first leg skier Yulia Belorukova on her final lap it was just a two-team battle. Natalia Matveeva did her best to keep it close with Norway's anchor Maiken Caspersen Falla but Falla proved to be too strong. In third place for the first time ever in a classic team sprint event was the United States of America. Jessie Diggins already a silver medalist in the sprint at these Championships used her excellent downhill skills to overtake Sweden's Stina Nilsson coming into the stadium and led her into the final turn. From there Diggins managed to hold Nilsson off to give the USA the bronze medal just 0.19 seconds ahead of Sweden and +18.38 behind the winning time of Norway. In the men's competition is looked to be a gold or at worst a silver medal for the home team Finland as Iivo Niskanen erased his deficit to Norway on the final lap but a crash between him and Norway's Emil Iversen entering the final curve left Finland with the bronze. Navigating safely around the tangle up Russia and Italy came to the finish line for the gold and silver. The Jury deliberated for almost 30 minutes to decided who the bronze medal would go to and in the end Finland who crossed the line in third was awarded the bronze medal. Full Results Men and Women Norway (Weng/Falla) Womens Team Sprint Classical 2017 World Champion Russia (Kriukov/Ustiugov) Mens Team Sprint Classical 2017 World Champion Race Replay Womens and Mens Final Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,559 Posted February 26, 2017 Author #383 Share Posted February 26, 2017 4 hours ago, Finnator123 said: Oh well, we still won the bronze medal So 2 medals from Lahti so far. And Niskanen/Jauhojärvi are still the defending olympic gold medalists Our Dutch commentator directly after the finish by the way: "Gold for Russia, silver for Italy and the Finnish fans can be happy with a nice bronze medal for their team" Ok, after some time maybe, but please tell me in which universe fans from Finland can be happy with this bronze medal directly after the finish (where Finland might also be replaced by any random country, the big thing being it's the home country) If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,263 Posted February 27, 2017 #384 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Tomorrows Womens 10km Classical Start List Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnator123 292 Posted February 28, 2017 #385 Share Posted February 28, 2017 On 26.2.2017 at 20:02, heywoodu said: Our Dutch commentator directly after the finish by the way: "Gold for Russia, silver for Italy and the Finnish fans can be happy with a nice bronze medal for their team" Ok, after some time maybe, but please tell me in which universe fans from Finland can be happy with this bronze medal directly after the finish (where Finland might also be replaced by any random country, the big thing being it's the home country) Oh we are happy about it. It took us what, 1-2 days to be happy about it But the fact is that that's a lost bronze. For example Pärmäkoski won silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnator123 292 Posted February 28, 2017 #386 Share Posted February 28, 2017 And why Saarinen was dropped from 10km classical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,559 Posted February 28, 2017 Author #387 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Alright, time for another gold for Bjoergen (who knows, maybe Pärmäkoski could pull of a stunt, that'd be awesome) If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,263 Posted February 28, 2017 #388 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Hope and wish for a good result for Alena today, after her frustrating 31st place 0.02s behind the top 30 in the sprint, it´s our last chance to earn something interesting and nice for this sport at this WCh. a top 20 is probably unrealistic but something close to that would be fine and will bring at least a small smile in the face of our nordic skiing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,140 Posted February 28, 2017 #389 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Let's go Heidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,559 Posted February 28, 2017 Author #390 Share Posted February 28, 2017 So apparently getting below 180 FIS points in this specific qualifying race was indeed needed. This was the result: And only people from the top-7 are participating today. Not even all of them, because Paul, Skender and Auzina aren't here. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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