Cross-Country Skiing 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[Federer91 2,904]

  On 11/30/2018 at 11:38 AM, Kirkpatrick said:

Do we have a topic on totallympics where we could rant against Eurosport and other TV channels? 

 

Live action, but the so often put those horrible (and very long!) Eurosport player videos.

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  On 11/30/2018 at 11:40 AM, heywoodu said:

Or, and I am not kidding, "Top 5 Naomi Osaka shots US Open final 2018" that takes 2-3 minutes.

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I think i have the answer for these breaks. Our commentators have said about them, that since Eurosport broadcasts across multiple countries, there is a variation in the ad time. Let's say in one ad break the UK have bought 5 minutes of ads, but Bulgaria only 2 minutes. In the 3 minute difference, such highlights would be shown in Bulgaria to compensate the difference. 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 11/30/2018 at 3:39 PM, Federer91 said:

 

 

I think i have the answer for these breaks. Our commentators have said about them, that since Eurosport broadcasts across multiple countries, there is a variation in the ad time. Let's say in one ad break the UK have bought 5 minutes of ads, but Bulgaria only 2 minutes. In the 3 minute difference, such highlights would be shown in Bulgaria to compensate the difference. 

 

 

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Well yeah, but why not just go back to the sports?  

[Federer91 2,904]

  On 11/30/2018 at 3:40 PM, heywoodu said:

Well yeah, but why not just go back to the sports?  

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Well i think they use an universal feed for all countries and can't switch whenever they want.  Whatever they say in Paris is what happens. 

[Wumo 3,016]

According to NRK, Petter Northug will tomorrow at a press meeting at 12:00 in Trondheim say that he will no longer try to come back to the World Cup, and he will likely not be skiing at top cross-country level anymore. 

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[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 12/11/2018 at 10:10 PM, wumo26 said:

According to NRK, Petter Northug will tomorrow at a press meeting at 12:00 in Trondheim say that he will no longer try to come back to the World Cup, and he will likely not be skiing at top cross-country level anymore. 

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He still thought he was doing that?

[Wumo 3,016]

  On 12/12/2018 at 7:25 AM, heywoodu said:

He still thought he was doing that?

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It's Petter "drunk-driving-and-crashing-my-car" Northug we are talking about. 

[Wumo 3,016]

Petter Northug confirmed his retirement today at a press meeting in Trondheim, Norway. 

[hckošice 15,129]

Good Bye legend.

was great to live in the Northug era

 

[heywoodu 15,355]

If he did it two years earlier it would at least have been a bit of a worthy end to a career like his...

 

This is kinda the XC equivalent of fantastic footballers who end up playing in some crappy Qatari league and then announce their retirement and everyone goes like "oh I thought he retired 5 years ago" 

[Olympian1010 8,074]

  On 12/12/2018 at 11:24 AM, wumo26 said:

Petter Northug confirmed his retirement today at a press meeting in Trondheim, Norway. 

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*shocked*