Coincidentally today I overheard Kevin Bolger talk with someone about it, they were all pretty disappointed at seeing the tiny start list today and felt they should speak with the athletes about whether or not they actually wanted a 50k.
I also heard him talk about the insane noise around the track yesterday, he said it felt like his ears were popping constantly and that Maja Dahlqvist's first words to him this morning were "I'm scared"
Miserable championships for Diggins by the way, damn. She was walking and running around super pumped before the 50k, then was dropped immediately and had no chance to ever get anywhere near a decent result. Kept going, dropped back further and made a bit of a show to thank people at the finish, but simply collapsed into tears after the finish. Not even anywhere near the individual medals in the entirety of Trondheim 2025.
Awesome to see Sophia Velicer finish today and avoid being lapped, my throat is still sore from yelling "Let's go Sophia!" at the top of my lungs every single time she passed by
The three remaining World Cups: Oslo next week (20k interval classic + 10k interval freestyle), Tallinn a few days later (freestyle sprint) and the weekend after that the finals in Lahti (freestyle individual + team sprint and a 50k classic). At least in the women's standings Lithuania should definitely be safe inside the top-30 and therefore with a second spot at the Olympics. Realistically only Armenia might pass them and that depends entirely on whether or not Katya Galstyan will do those World Cups.
Lithuanian men are 30th right now, but in the men's field I'm significantly less informed and don't really dare say if there's any danger from behind.
That's enough to cause confusion and delay decisions: foe example in Paris in women`s 5km, Batocletti came fourth, then got the bronze, then lost it at the end and the news came late at night. In short track, the final decision is made a few minutes after the race at most, and there's no situation where medals are awarded or taken away hours after the competition.
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