Cross-Country Skiing FIS World Cup 2024 - 2025

[copravolley 498]

We have competitions at home, before the season we got a good service from Sweden, and today Pellegrino on the last straight had skis like a junior compared to Norway, Sweden or Switzerland. I don't understand it. After all, having a competiton at home you should have a natural advantage over your rivals. This season is terrible for us in cross-country skiing and biathlon: so far in these two disciplines we have won 1 podium - 3rd place for Pellegrino in the sprint in Lillehammer. The closer we get to the games in Cortina, the worse it gets for us unfortunately

Edited January 3 by copravolley

[copravolley 498]

14 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Rare win for  Fändrich - Heidi.Weng improves her position overall.

The Italian team's skis on the downhill today were at the level of third world countries. Shame.

[hckošice 15,502]

Stage 5 in Val di Fiemme (ITA)

TOUR DE SKI 2024/25 - Stage 5

 

Women´s Sprint Classical:

 

1.  Nadine Faehndrich   

2. Linn Svahn   

3. Heidi Weng 

 

Full Final Result HERE

 

TOUR DE SKI 2024/25 Provisional Standing After Event 5/7 HERE

[hckošice 15,502]

Stage 5 in Val di Fiemme (ITA)

TOUR DE SKI 2024/25 - Stage 5

 

Men´s Sprint Classical:

 

1.  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 

2. Even Northug   

3. Marcus Grate 

 

Full Final Result HERE

 

TOUR DE SKI 2024/25 Provisional Standing After Event 5/7 HERE

[Fly_like_a_don 1,142]

Seriously what a shit sprint course for the Olympics. Medals will be decided based on Skiis.

[Grassmarket 4,026]

9 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Seriously what a shit sprint course for the Olympics. Medals will be decided based on Skiis.

Torino course was excellent as well.  Lots of difficult climbs. Hopefully time to.add some elements.

[phelps 8,278]

3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Torino course was excellent as well.  Lots of difficult climbs. Hopefully time to.add some elements.

no, it won't happen...

this same course has already hosted 3 world champs in the past 30 years or so

if they had to change something, they would have done it already years ago 

 

3 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Seriously what a shit sprint course for the Olympics. Medals will be decided based on Skiis.

yeah, it's not only about the sprint races, all the mass start events will suffer from that uncommon, too long (and not adequate) final straight 

[JonPhi 250]

Especially as they have no room for manoeuvre to make any major changes to the course. With 59 metres of elevation gain over just 1.2 km, the sprint course is at the absolute limit in terms of difficulty. The same applies to the skiathlon tomorrow, with almost 900 metres of elevation gain over the 20 kilometres, which is extremely demanding.

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Podium for Chicco Pellegrino in a distance event 

[Grassmarket 4,026]

1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

Podium for Chicco Pellegrino in a distance event 

3  in the top 15, surely even the most pessimistic of Italian  fans must be happy?