Cross-Country Skiing 2022 - 2023 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,135]

Never mind, those are results from 2020, I'm blind  

 

The Norwegian federation site linked to that and I hadn't noticed their mistake  

[dcro 10,210]

There is no novelty here, however it's still fun to see Lebanese women grabbing generous 140.80 FIS points for nearly 30 minutes required for 5 km free.

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=42206

 

I wonder, are Cedars the Lebanese Alpe Cermis?

Edited March 17, 2023 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,135]

On 3/17/2023 at 4:30 PM, dcro said:

There is no novelty here, however it's still fun to see Lebanese women grabbing generous 140.80 FIS points for nearly 30 minutes required for 5 km free.

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=42206

 

I wonder, are Cedars the Lebanese Alpe Cermis?

Cedars must be a super easy track, considering some of the athletes who are participating there  

 

But yeah, this thing with 140 points is one of the main reasons why it's good Olympic qualification isn't solely based on FIS Points List anymore  

[BlueWhiteJerry 20]

This applies to all FIS competitions, but I feel like it's most relevant in cross-country. FIS has just announced full implementation of the fluor wax ban starting next season.

FIS to fully implement fluor wax ban at start of 2023-24 season (fis-ski.com)

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 hours ago, BlueWhiteJerry said:

This applies to all FIS competitions, but I feel like it's most relevant in cross-country. FIS has just announced full implementation of the fluor wax ban starting next season.

FIS to fully implement fluor wax ban at start of 2023-24 season (fis-ski.com)

About time, IBU has already had it for a while now (with countries being penalized as well for breaking this rule....yes, hello Brazil when IBU saw a bottle of fluor standing in your wax cabin )

 

I believe in the Toblach World Cup FIS was busy testing everyone's skis, specifically saying one would not be penalized yet if fluor was discovered, because they wanted to test their detection methods. Seems like it worked  

[Grassmarket 3,401]

Some trespassers on the Norwegian Plateau - Rosie Brennan second & Andrew Musgrave third in the Reistadløpet just now.

[Grassmarket 3,401]

Jess Diggins interviewed on eating disorders. I know that Norways pull athletes from competition once they develop symptoms.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12013099/Running-5-miles-eating-cookie-Social-media-eating-disorders-female-athletes.html

[heywoodu 15,135]

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/cross-country/cross-country-news-multimedia/news/2022-23/fis-cross-country-committee-spring-meetings

 

Last season's distances confirmed as keepers, and the process to have them at the World Championships and Olympics as well has started. So hello to also the title races for the men's interval being the semi-joke 20k, but at least also hello to the women's 50k. It has good and bad sides: the bad obviously being the shortening of the men's interval and skiathlon, but the good side being the lengthening of the women's mass starts (which not a lot of sports would do).

 

Also:

 

The FIS Point System - that was approved in 2022 - will be efficient as of 1st of July 2023.

 

Any idea what they mean? I can't find anything about a specifically different system being approved last year, but also the Brazilian federation has mentioned this as something that will affect their way of qualifying for 2026.