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7 hours ago, intoronto said:

:AZE has already started so probably not too long

Which of these?

 

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Sure, he knows in Austria it'd be difficult, but already during his active career he had mentioned more than once that he might very well one day represent his mother's country once his career in the

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It sounds like he's mostly coming back to have fun, and with that mindset racing for fits better than racing with

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6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Some research would have led you to discover all of the Azeri skiers who have competed at the Olympics are foreign born 

Sure, but the suggestion kind of sounded like Azerbaijan is all the time competing with hands full of Austrian and Swiss skiers, but in the past it has been 1 Swiss, 1 Austrian (who had some contacy with/in Azerbaijan already so that kind of made sense) and 1 Russian/Georgian male, and 1 female Italian.

 

Nothing like they do in other sports, and considering this is a 20-year period, there also isn't really much of a trend, so...not worried :p 

 

:QAT on the other hand...I don't think they started? But for them I would not be surprised if they pull out all the stops once they do..

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On 6/5/2024 at 10:35 PM, Monzanator said:

What are the odds :QAT starts buying Austrian and Swiss skiers? ;)

:QAT method is not quite like the other countries mentioned - they subsidise young athletes to come to the National Sporting Academy and then adopt them on residency rules.   So not much different from :ESP :POR :USA.  But certainly that method will probably work better with young African sprinters than with Norwegian biathletes. 

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FIS created a wild card rule for this new :NED skier Hirscher who won't have to start with bib #75 or whatever but with #31. Not like that would mean anything come January once the FIS points eventually appear on his ranking but some Swiss guys criticized the idea already :p

 

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/sport/absolute-cheek-ski-cracks-annoyed-about-star-bonus-for-hirscher-2311053.html

 

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

FIS created a wild card rule for this new :NED skier Hirscher who won't have to start with bib #75 or whatever but with #31. Not like that would mean anything come January once the FIS points eventually appear on his ranking but some Swiss guys criticized the idea already :p

 

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/sport/absolute-cheek-ski-cracks-annoyed-about-star-bonus-for-hirscher-2311053.html

 

 

 

 

That's kind of stupid.

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I did liked Hirscher very much, thats nice that he is returning, but can somebody explain me what is point of that, anyone knows? And what is reason that Hiescher will represent Netherlands instead of Austria?

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1 hour ago, rybak said:

I did liked Hirscher very much, thats nice that he is returning, but can somebody explain me what is point of that, anyone knows? And what is reason that Hiescher will represent Netherlands instead of Austria?

It sounds like he's mostly coming back to have fun, and with that mindset racing for :NED fits better than racing with :AUT

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8 hours ago, NearPup said:

It sounds like he's mostly coming back to have fun, and with that mindset racing for :NED fits better than racing with :AUT

With the main thing there being that his mother is Dutch, he speaks quite good Dutch (far from perfect, but surprisingly well) and he wanted to represent his mother's country as well. And indeed, without too much pressure, mostly to see what he can do.

 

Not a fan of the wildcard thing, rules should be the same for everyone and if he's even at 70% of where he was, he'll obviously qualify and improve his start positions bit by bit.

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10 hours ago, NearPup said:

It sounds like he's mostly coming back to have fun, and with that mindset racing for :NED fits better than racing with :AUT

Probably very much true. The other bit of true is probably that he might struggle to get a place in the Austrian national team because of the firm competition he would face whereas it is probably.... different in the Dutch team ;) And so he might get stuck in the internal selection in Austria while at the same time he could just concentrate on the World Cup for the Netherlands. Smart move.

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