Cross-Country Skiing FIS World Cup 2022 - 2023

[heywoodu 15,135]

On 1/17/2023 at 1:22 PM, heywoodu said:

Meanwhile I've heard Brazil may have a woman in the sprint in Livigno (and possibly the team sprint), so there's a little fun fact for the weekend ahead  

Gabi Neres will make her World Cup debut in an hour or so  

 

Eduarda Ribera will debut as well, right behind Gabi, whereas Victor Martins has done it before.

[JonPhi 250]

Jonna is baaaacccckkkkk 

 

1 Sundling 

2 Ribom  +1.3

3 Fähndrich  +4.5

4 Dahlqvist  +5.3

5 Svahn  +5.7

[heywoodu 15,135]

Fairly annoyed with that generic British Eurosport commentator going "Gabriela Neres, living at 1200m altitude in Brasilia, but it hasn't helped her, because she is way, way off the mark"  

 

Come on dude, give 'em a break, don't expect the Brazilians to have Swedish pace.

[Belle 975]

Triple Sweden on the podium. JONNA! MAJA!! EMMA! 

[hckošice 14,823]

Stage 8 in Livigno (ITA)

 

Women´s Sprint Freestyle:

 

1.  Jonna Sundling 

2. Maja Dahlqvist 

3. Emma Ribom   

 

Full Final Result HERE

[hckošice 14,823]

Stage 8 in Livigno (ITA)

 

Men´s Sprint Freestyle:

 

1.  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 

2. Richard Jouve 

3. Janik Riebli   

 

Full Final Result HERE

[heywoodu 15,135]

Different kind of team sprint qualifying today, and it does not sound fun at all: every athlete will simply do the lap of yesterday's individual sprint, and the times of the two athletes are added together to form the ranking. No exchanges, no multiple laps, no head-to-head fights, nothing to make it a team sprint other than adding some times.

 

Apparently all 14 teams in the women's event will be going to the final, which means a final spot for Brazil  

[JonPhi 250]

50 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Different kind of team sprint qualifying today, and it does not sound fun at all: every athlete will simply do the lap of yesterday's individual sprint, and the times of the two athletes are added together to form the ranking. No exchanges, no multiple laps, no head-to-head fights, nothing to make it a team sprint other than adding some times.

 

Apparently all 14 teams in the women's event will be going to the final, which means a final spot for Brazil  

I think the qualification mode is not so bad, because it was much too demanding for most sprinters to run the 1.5km 6 times a day, so they only have to do it 4 times. Moreover, no team can complain anymore that the semifinals were unevenly filled.
On the other hand, I don't understand why it has to be 20 teams again. So you have again (at least in the men's) 40 athletes standing around in the changing room.

[heywoodu 15,135]

28 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

I think the qualification mode is not so bad, because it was much too demanding for most sprinters to run the 1.5km 6 times a day, so they only have to do it 4 times. Moreover, no team can complain anymore that the semifinals were unevenly filled.
On the other hand, I don't understand why it has to be 20 teams again. So you have again (at least in the men's) 40 athletes standing around in the changing room.

I think this turns the qualifying into a soulless event, which just isn't really interesting to watch, whereas the semis used to be fun to watch. The one time FIS doesn't go for making things more 'fun' to watch, they mess up an event  

 

They could perfectly well make the semis have the same basic format as the final, but with 2 laps per athlete (or even 1), while still keeping it a head-to-head race. Usually there's plenty of 'fastest non-automatic qualifier times' anyway to not really make it an unfair division in the team sprint.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Anyway this women's qualifying is nothing but a warmup for the top countries (so everyone outside of Brazil today), since everyone goes to the final anyway