Monzanator 3,569 Posted March 17, 2023 #701 Share Posted March 17, 2023 29 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said: Another proof that most sport officials are completely braindead. They could have scheduled this race for earlier this day or they could have scheduled both sprints for yesterday, but instead they created a schedule that only would have worked if no race/only men's sprint had to be delayed. I guess just canceling women's pursuit/mass start doesn't matter, because it only hurts the athletes. The same has happened in ski jumping many times before. They schedule a competition as late as possible and then they are shocked when they have to cancel it because they can't postpone it. At the 2018 olympics one of the ski jumping competitions finished after midnight ... I'm pretty sure today's sprint was scheduled so late so it didn't clash with the World Cup cross-country races in Falun. Norwegian TV probably wanted to avoid the overlap. There was no cross country yesterday so men's sprint was not affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,128 Posted March 17, 2023 #702 Share Posted March 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Monzanator said: Start postponed by 30 mins due to fog Here are the men's 2023/24 quota. Due to Russia and Belarus ban some teams obviously profited with extra quotas. On the flip side is Slovakia who had didn't even make Top 20 for the first time in XXI century @hckošice we only have two registered active adults. thus the number of quotas is sitting and fair, we are at our right place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonPhi 246 Posted March 17, 2023 #703 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Patrick Favre and Vincent Vittoz will no longer be coaches of the French men's team next season. They would probably have continued, but the athletes in particular had wanted changes. maestro and Bohemia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,128 Posted March 17, 2023 #704 Share Posted March 17, 2023 (edited) Apparently the worst situation was in the middle-placed shooting ranges and the complains from teams who were zeroing there including were one of the main reason why the race was postponed for tomorrow. Our girls claimed they did not see the target at all Edited March 17, 2023 by hckošice JonPhi and maestro 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted March 17, 2023 #705 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Women's pursuit cancelled like expected. New bibs for the sprint and suddenly everyone goes in Group 1 again Grotian with #71. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,715 Posted March 17, 2023 #706 Share Posted March 17, 2023 8 hours ago, heywoodu said: This is some of the very best news ever in cross-country skiing, something that should be adopted on a large scale! Next thing is to somehow limit the number of skis per athlete for a competition. It is bullshit for top athletes to have the option of 40-50 pairs (!) of skis per race, that immediately neutralizes any chance anyone from any less rich nation has to ever be competitive. Great step with the wax though! In Planica the race organizer already limited some of the resources they could bring. Like, Norway wanted to bring three equipment trucks for stuff like waxing, which is way way over the top of course, so they were only allowed to park one Edit: a bit further reading, and athletes can register 2 pairs of skis for the race the day before! I guess they can still bring a gazillion and then choose 2, but still, that's a good step! Also: it should be up to the athletes to test & choose their own skis. No more having squads of roadies doing it for you. heywoodu and hckošice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,715 Posted March 17, 2023 #707 Share Posted March 17, 2023 3 hours ago, Monzanator said: Women's sprint is postponed for Saturday. Probably no pursuit then. Run it as a double header, like baseball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 17, 2023 #708 Share Posted March 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Grassmarket said: Also: it should be up to the athletes to test & choose their own skis. No more having squads of roadies doing it for you. Exactly. It's really not that difficult, there's the official training the day before the race to do that. Plenty of time. 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...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 17, 2023 #709 Share Posted March 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Monzanator said: Women's pursuit cancelled like expected. New bibs for the sprint and suddenly everyone goes in Group 1 again Grotian with #71. Too bad, but cancelling the unfair pursuit is still a way better decision than moving that one to Sunday and cancelling the mass start Surprised they went for the good decision. 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...
phelps 6,528 Posted March 17, 2023 #710 Share Posted March 17, 2023 still, the race is scheduled once again late in the afternoon. you already know the forecast is not good at all and then you persevere to put events in the worst possible clocking with no chance of "playing with time"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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