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Cross-Country Skiing 2019 - 2020 Discussion Thread


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South American distance champion as well :cheer: (with a fall on the bottom part of a downhill right before a climb, meaning she had to enter the climb with 0 speed as opposed to the rest who raced down and had extra speed going up)

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=34160

 

Sad for Gabi though. The South American distance title was supposed to be handed out today in the 5k freestyle, but for whatever reasons the Argentinian local team (and organizers) decided only a few days ago it'd be in the 5k classic. She barely trained classic technique though, focussing on the freestyle since that's where the medals would be awarded.

 

Meanwhile, Spanish-trained Manex Silva is on an absolute tear at the junior competitions, utterly destroying all the Brazil-trained Brazilians.

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=34163

 

I'm not saying the training programs in Brazil don't seem to be working, but they sure don't seem to be functioning properly.

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Swiss-Brazilian Steve Hiestand is apparently going to try and qualify for the Beijing Olympics. He's 35 years old and qualified for the Brazilian Olympic rowing team in 2016, but due to an IOC problem (something with nationality I guess) wasn't allowed to compete in the end. Today he finished barely half a minute behind Victor Santos (Brazil's 2018 Olympian)...and that's even though he only started skiing last year and his technique still has a lot to improve. Already almost under 200 FIS points today!

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=235877&raceid=34165

https://www.stevehiestand.ch/

 

I'm now 150% behind Steve, let's go :cheer: 

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Just now, heywoodu said:

Swiss-Brazilian Steve Hiestand is apparently going to try and qualify for the Beijing Olympics. He's 35 years old and qualified for the Brazilian Olympic rowing team in 2016, but due to an IOC problem (something with nationality I guess) wasn't allowed to compete in the end. Today he finished barely half a minute behind Victor Santos (Brazil's 2018 Olympian)...and that's even though he only started skiing last year and his technique still has a lot to improve. Already almost under 200 FIS points today!

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=235877&raceid=34165

https://www.stevehiestand.ch/

 

I'm now 150% behind Steve, let's go :cheer: 

 

I am really surprised that you support someone based in Switzerland over skiers that are trying to make it out of Brazil. :yikes:


If anything, he reminds me of another versatile Brazilian XC skier...

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Just now, dcro said:

 

I am really surprised that you support someone based in Switzerland over skiers that are trying to make it out of Brazil. :yikes:


If anything, he reminds me of another versatile Brazilian XC skier...

The Brazilian male skiers I support now are based in Spain (Manex Silva), Austria (Matheus Vasconcellos), Switzerland (Steve Hiestand) and Brazil (Lucas Martins), one each :p 

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Start list for today's Ushuaia Loppet (50km) and the Marchablanca (25km) in the southernmost skiing area in the world.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTsmbth22OwfuKP4bNDQxMmLwMY9evHO8hI_rGHU6Bmdy4MHRPXN87R7oQmp-XtlEm1ehVmAsAAp3_i/pub?output=pdf

 

It's the opening of the World Loppet 2019/20 season as well :) 

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Aaaaand they're off! For clarification: Ushuaia Loppet is 50km, Marchablanca is 25km. Here's a video of the start (too bad quality drops right at the actual start, around 9:30 minutes in the video)

 

 

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Halfway and Bruna is in the lead of the women's race, 15-20 seconds ahead of someone else, don't know who. Also no clue about the men's race yet :p 

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American former biathlete Claire Waichler won the race.

https://www.biathlon.com.ua/profile/4846-kler-vayhler

 

Bruna was leading for the first 25 to 30 kilometers, but after that Claire passed and dropped her on the climbs on which she had a really, really good technique apparently. Bruna tried staying with her a bit, but that took so much out of her she didn't have power left to fight back on the flat parts, so all she could do was consolidate 2nd place ( Worldloppet medal :cheer:) and that worked out well, despite having bad cramps pretty much everywhere :d  

 

Matias Zuloaga of Argentina won the men's race, ahead of compatriot Franco del Farra.

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Good for Bruna. How were the skis? I’d imagine that was part of the issue with her not being able to keep speed with the American.

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