Nordic Combined 2019 - 2020 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,863]

[Olympian1010 7,980]

If anyone wants a nice prize and tickets to a huge summer event in Oberhof: 

 

[heywoodu 15,172]

There's a not all too bad 16-year old British girl in the Alpen Cup  Thought it'd be interesting enough to mention, don't see British combiners too often.

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=nk&competitorid=235888&type=result

[Grassmarket 3,439]

32 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There's a not all too bad 16-year old British girl in the Alpen Cup  Thought it'd be interesting enough to mention, don't see British combiners too often.

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=nk&competitorid=235888&type=result

 

We do have a few teenage ski jumpers now, some doing well at age group level.

[heywoodu 15,172]

Apparently for whatever reason in the mixed team event they use the average point of the jumpers of a team as their score? 

http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2020/NK/4101/2020NK4101RL.pdf

 

Why not just total points? I know the results would be the same then (if you adjust the time differences accordingly), but it'd be much easier to follow.

[heywoodu 15,172]

Oh and the jumping can be seen here:

 

 

Nice to finally actually see the women (well, girls mostly) instead of just reading their results. I do find it worrying that apart from Geraghty-Moats everyone competed in this competition, but still most of the girls are young teenagers who have major problems to get a decent jump in...that's specifically worrying if women's Nordic combined is supposed to be Olympic in only 2,5 years time.

[heywoodu 15,172]

At 18.50 CET the cross-country/rollerskiing starts, live here:

 

[Dunadan 1,103]

24 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

women's Nordic combined is supposed to be Olympic in only 2,5 years time.

It's not, the programme for 2022 is known since last year...maybe in 2026.

[heywoodu 15,172]

57 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

It's not, the programme for 2022 is known since last year...maybe in 2026.

Oh great, I thought there was still discussion going on about it  

 

That's wonderful news (well, not 'news', but for me then ) for women's Nordic combined. Very interested to see it grow.

Edited August 24, 2019 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,172]

God I hate those annoying Czech names, they're so generic

 

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