Cross-Country Skiing 2020 - 2021 Discussion Thread

[Grassmarket 4,059]

23 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Wow, I knew Steve had been working well lately (the guy is an absolute unit in terms of size and power), but had no idea he'd compete in the World Cup  

 

He does live in Switzerland though (not far from Davos even if I'm not mistaken).

Yeah, but in the slum part of Davos.  

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Pardon me for perhaps asking something obvious, but how come for instance Norwegian biathlon team can compete without problems in Europe, but cross-country cannot? Is it up to federations (biathlon and cross-country), and not the country directive?

[heywoodu 16,015]

18 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

Pardon me for perhaps asking something obvious, but how come for instance Norwegian biathlon team can compete without problems in Europe, but cross-country cannot? Is it up to federations (biathlon and cross-country), and not the country directive?

Norway is perfectly allowed to compete like other nations, their cross-country team just decided not to because having a decent preparation towards later parts of the season was deemed impossible for them with the constant quarantaine whenever travelling to another country.

 

It's a bit hard to compare it with biathlon, since the IBU has simply done a better job in having a good season in place, especially with the thing they have of two consecutive World Cups in one location, to lower the total amount of travelling back and forth.

[Swewi 460]

19 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

Pardon me for perhaps asking something obvious, but how come for instance Norwegian biathlon team can compete without problems in Europe, but cross-country cannot? Is it up to federations (biathlon and cross-country), and not the country directive?

It is up to the different federations.

and IBU has been much smatter planning the schedule, having two weeks at each venue to reduce travel.

[Federer91 3,028]

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Norway is perfectly allowed to compete like other nations, their cross-country team just decided not to because having a decent preparation towards later parts of the season was deemed impossible for them with the constant quarantaine whenever travelling to another country.

 

It's a bit hard to compare it with biathlon, since the IBU has simply done a better job in having a good season in place, especially with the thing they have of two consecutive World Cups in one location, to lower the total amount of travelling back and forth.

That could be said for their alpine and jumping teams as well, but they are competing in a full schedule... It seems only the cross-country ones are with special needs.

[heywoodu 16,015]

5 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

That could be said for their alpine and jumping teams as well, but they are competing in a full schedule... It seems only the cross-country ones are with special needs.

Although there we are talking about sports where keeping distance is a whole lot easier.

 

Anyhow, I can understand the decision of those three nations especially in a sport where the athletes are living a far from healthy life already.

[Olympian1010 8,231]

Yeah, our commentators were taking about how Brennen almost didn’t travel to Europe because of how poorly the FIS has handled Covid (though they seemed to imply that she thought they weren’t doing enough to keep people safe).

[Gianlu33 5,284]

Two days Pellegrino hardly attack Norway and Klaebo: "The Norwegians have abandoned a plane where they were traveling in first class and which they built, forcing us to play by their rules. Kalebo never helped me in meetings with the FIS and all voted for individual points in the relay, excluding Russia."

[Swewi 460]

National races in sweden this weekend.

Svahn won the sprint, Sundling 2nd, Karlsson 3rd.

 

In the 10k C individual start, Karlsson half minute ahead of Andersson

 

15k F Masstart, Andersson won over Karlsson after a sprint finish. Sundling 3rd. First race for the season  for Kalla after Having Covid. She finished 7th.

 

Poroma best male Today but the swedish men are not that interesting

[hckošice 15,543]

7 months of jail for Petter Northug for recidive.

 

The court in Oslo send today the former 2 times Olympic champion for repeated speeding and possession of drugs. In addition, he lost his driver's license forever.