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Cross-Country Skiing at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2023


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4 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Wasn’t paying attention last time this was discussed, but this is a weird qualifying format they’ve come up with.

It's totally boring and has nothing to do with the race later. And it's just stupid that 16 qualify, so here all run only slowly in front.

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21 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

It's totally boring and has nothing to do with the race later. And it's just stupid that 16 qualify, so here all run only slowly in front.

The front teams go slowly, the backmarkers just have a repeat of their individual qualifying. The only teams for whom this is remotely interesting are the teams who are really fighting for those positions around the 15th spot.

 

It should at the very least provide FIS points, since it's simply an individual qualifying race.

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Anyhow, great race by Bruna, only 1,5s behind Jaque is one of the closest - if not the closest - margins ever between them! Both did excellent :cheer: 

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Why not run two full sprint races, classical & freestyle, then use the qualifying from the freestyle as the seed for the team sprint?

 

And all on the same day!  :bones:    No, obviously…..couldn’t do it at the Olympics, but plenty sports have more WC medals than Olympic ones.

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While calling Bruna after her individual sprint qualifying on Thursday, while she was standing in that warmup/cooldown area where athletes do their last-minute prep and stuff, she at some point walked away for a second. I heard some talking in the background, and later she told me it was the Mexican she had waited for at the finish, Regina (they've known each other for a while). While they were talking, apparently one Jessie Diggins walked by and was super excited about Regina's Mexican race suit, offering a swap with her American one, and after some hesitation on the other side, Diggins made it really clear it was definitely not a joke :yikes: 

 

So they got in touch later to set a place to meet, and now:

 

Spoiler

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1 minute ago, hckošice said:

wait what ? Slovakia ? how ?

Because it's now 15 instead of 10 teams in the final :p 

 

And they timed their results nice btw :d 

 

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