Well, first, Poland is not so bad and at 2, it was the opening match, the first games are often very complicated against weaker sides, because of motivation and all physical forces still present
China won here against Poland on penalties... Poland recently lost very badly to Slovakia and Latvia at the World Champ. and is definitely the weakest team present here.
Last time someone won the Major event downhill with bib 1 was Patrick Ortlieb in Albertville Olympics 1992, so just to say how uncommon is to win the major Downhill with starting number 1.
I am not persuaded they are worse than Slovakia, but yep, definitely worse than Japan. All teams of the final tournaments are worse than Japan except Sweden whichi is +/- at the same level, followed by a small margin by Germany, Denmark, Hungary and France. Then we have a bigger gap ahead of Slovakia, China and some other more or less equal level teams like Norway and Austria. The Netherlands are an anomaly here, they are benefiting here from the rather fortunate circumstances that occurred two years ago resulting in their fluke maintaining in the division, but their real level is I am afraid a bit inferior than what their seeding tend to suggest
Goggia before her last injuries in period: 2022/2024, would have fought for gold even on this course. Unfortunately, another accidents have taken their health and she is no longer the same skier she was before. Throughout the current season, Goggia has been at a lower level in the downhill than Brignone, which was once unthinkable. Apart from Goggia, Brignone couldn't do anything yesterday and Delago and Pirovano aren`t currently at medal level.
Anyhow, turns out in the junior relay you're actually not taken out of the race when lapped, well fuck
As entirely expected, Brazil's opening man lost some time on Greece's opening man, but as also expected, Brazil's first girl destroyed the first Greek girl. I had expected them to be long lapped by then, which would be excellent, because then Brazil would get a position ahead of Greece and so a few more points. However, apparently everyone goes all the way, and the second Greek guy is likely to put the second Brazilian guy behind...hopefully not too far, because the last Brazilian girl should be better than the last Greek girl. It's a whole thing
Not helping Brazil that Lithuania is doing quite well, but the good thing is Lithuania isn't in the U23 relay and Brazil is. Strangely will do so without Manex Silva though, who is by a massive margin their best guy, and could have gotten them a few extra points which Brazil desperately needs in the ranking.
Edit:
Yeah, here we go with the second guys. Left is at the 2nd exchange, right is at 1.75km in their 5km race.....goodbye.
Including biathlon? They have their IBU Qualifying Points list public, but in their own results system, from which you can't download or even copy anything, so taking away all of the nations that qualify via the nations cup is a manual thing and takes forever.... (instead of if they at least had a CSV format or something, so you could filter those out easily).
China got rid of all the naturalized players from Canada and the US, so this is no surprise. With them on board, they were on equal lovel with Japan. Without foreign recruitment the Chinese team is worse than Slovakia or Holland.
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