Nordic Combined 2022 - 2024 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 16,640]

The International Ski Federation (FIS) is planning changes in tNordic combined. With the obvious goal to keep this sport in the program of the Winter Olympics.

 

Steps to increase popularity were presented at the Forum Nordicum event in Kranjska Gora by World Cup Event Director Lasse Ottesen. From the 2023/24 season, a super sprint, a mass start race or a mixed team competition could be added. There should also be restrictions on equipment for ski jumping and cross-country skiing in order to reduce the dominance of powerhouses such as Austria, Germany, Norway and Japan.

 

Remember IOC canceled this may the planned premiere of the women´s Nordic combined under the five rings, saying that the discipline is losing its attractiveness and they did not rule out its complete deletion in the future.

 

[Monzanator 5,136]

Szczepan Kupczak had called it a career. He will focus on being the head coach of women's ski jumping team from now on. This leaves Polish NC with two active senior athletes at international level - Andrzej Szczechowicz and Pawel Szyndlar (who picked up some cheap points FIS points last March by attending Continetal Cup in Park City and Lake Placid where she finished dead last in all four starts ).

[heywoodu 16,468]

On 9/22/2022 at 10:09 AM, hckošice said:

There should also be restrictions on equipment for ski jumping and cross-country skiing

Oh wow, FIS coming with senseable things  

 

Equipment restrictions should absolutely 100% be done in cross-country skiing as well. It is absolute bullshit to have the powerhouse nations going around with 50 (!) pairs of skis for a single athlete and an entire science division to join them in their trucks.

[Grassmarket 4,313]

And we also get a Nordic Combined season opener from Norway this weekend, although I guess the jumping will be highlights only.  Queans (old Scottish version of the Norwegian word) & Men on both Saturday and Sunday.

 

Kombinert – November 2022 – NRK TV

[heywoodu 16,468]

@hckošice At the Continental Cup in Eisenerz today, the Provisional Competition Round was won by super young Hektor Kapustik  

 

https://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/NK/4268/2023NK4268PCR.pdf

 

Sure, it's only the PCR and only jumping, but there's quite some well-known names in the field so anyway it is an excellent (and judging by his age, promising) result!

 

Edit: I had missed that the actual competition round in ski jumping had already happened as well and he won that too, by a bigger margin even!

https://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/NK/4268/2023NK4268RL.pdf

Edited March 3, 2023 by heywoodu

[hckošice 16,640]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

@hckošice At the Continental Cup in Eisenerz today, the Provisional Competition Round was won by super young Hektor Kapustik  

 

https://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/NK/4268/2023NK4268PCR.pdf

 

Sure, it's only the PCR and only jumping, but there's quite some well-known names in the field so anyway it is an excellent (and judging by his age, promising) result!

 

Edit: I had missed that the actual competition round in ski jumping had already happened as well and he won that too, by a bigger margin even!

https://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/NK/4268/2023NK4268RL.pdf

Still do not understand and know why and when they decided to turn him into NC. He was considered as our future ski jumping representative, no idea when this project ended

 

When he was 11 and jumped for the first time in a Large Hill, he managed 121m, was quite a buzz here at that time..did not hear a lot about him since though...at least until @Dragon I assume was the one who mentioned him as our qualified athlete in NC for the next YWOG

 

Edited March 3, 2023 by hckošice

[heywoodu 16,468]

4 hours ago, hckošice said:

Still do not understand and know why and when they decided to turn him into NC. He was considered as our future ski jumping representative, no idea when this project ended

 

When he was 11 and jumped for the first time in a Large Hill, he managed 121m, was quite a buzz here at that time..did not hear a lot about him since though...at least until @Dragon I assume was the one who mentioned him as our qualified athlete in NC for the next YWOG

 

Well he did finish 6 minutes behind the winner and was already far behind after 2.5km of skiing, so he might indeed be better off with a switch to ski jumping  

[hckošice 16,640]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Well he did finish 6 minutes behind the winner and was already far behind after 2.5km of skiing, so he might indeed be better off with a switch to ski jumping  

Maybe it is a problem with the federation, who knows ? Maybe it would be better for him to just change nationality while there is still time, there no future for him here for sure

 

 

[Olympian1010 8,313]

Some highlights from the end of the season technical meetings (will still need FIS approval):

 

- Individual Gundersen cross country distances will be increased next season (12.5k for men, 7.5km for women)

- A compact race format will also be tested over the summer (fixed time gaps based on position, and shorter distances)

- World Cup points given to Top 40

 

Link to announcement: https://www.fis-ski.com/en/nordic-combined/nordic-combined-news-multimedia/news-multimedia/news/2022-23/updates-from-the-nordic-combined-technical-meetings