Cross-Country Skiing at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2025

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The atmosphere in the stadium when Klaebo came into the stadium on his way to gold, oh wow

 

That was like an Austrian winning the Four Hills Tournament, times 5

 

My voice is now gone and my throat sore from all the yelling for our favorites and everything, but totally worth it

 

Gina del Rio! One of the Argentinians said "there kind of should be a fall ahead of her now so she has a chance for the final" (they're friends of her), and I swear not 5 seconds later they fell  But she had no power anymore, still super impressive. 

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Organization overall has a lot to improve, we had all expected way more from Norway of all countries, but in terms of atmosphere...just wow

 

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4th consecutive global championship sprint gold for Jonna and 6th for Johannes! 
Jonna really saved what could have been a nightmare dat for Sweden.
 

also actually the First ever medal for Skistad. 
 

Great day for the sport too with 5 nations sharing the 6 medals.

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Women's Sprint Freestyle
Final Results

 

Jonna SUNDLING

3:03.36

 

Kristine Stavaas SKISTAD

3:05.49

 

Nadine FAEHNDRICH

3:06.20

Full Final Result HERE

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Men's Sprint Freestyle
Final Results

 

Johannes Hoesflot KLAEBO

2:45.74

 

Federico PELLEGRINO

2:46.41

 

Lauri VUORINEN

2:50.53

Full Final Result HERE

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2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Organization overall has a lot to improve, we had all expected way more from Norway of all countries

 

Oh, do elaborate. We love some backstage organization stuff mayhem. 

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39 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Oh, do elaborate. We love some backstage organization stuff mayhem. 

Nothing too special, just many small things. There are so many restrictions on where you can and can't be, athletes needing to focus on the wrong stuff instead of simply their trainings and competitions, transport for athletes taking forever or not appearing at all (we brought the Argentinians to their hotel today, because they can't trust the buses, yesterday they arrived at the track at the earliest possible time...not even 30 minutes before their start). Even yesterday, competition day 1, things like the ticketing area where one can pick up FIS Family tickets wasn't open yet and nobody knew when it would (we've been pointed from the parking to the accreditation center and back a dozen times I think).

 

And the parking...Jesus Christ on a stick. The main parking lot literally has place for maybe 40 cars, that's it. That's not even 1 per country, so most teams have their car or van jammed in between the wax cabins. Of course except for the big countries, like Finland and their double decker fold out truck or Austria and their two full sized shipping containers.

 

Yesterday we ran after a volunteer to the medical center to find Bruna, about whom all we knew was "DNF" and "something with an ambulance and/or hospital". Fine. Then afterwards we wanted to go back to exactly where we came from (with our perfectly valid tickets), but we couldn't, because the 50 meter stretch of empty road was an accreditation zone. Luckily the nurse just appeared outside and helped us through.

 

So many of these relatively small things that make the whole thing feel...messy. At the very least hold an event like this in an easy to reach place for everyone, like the Holmenkollen in Oslo.

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On 2/26/2025 at 6:04 PM, Kerkun said:

4 of 5 Colombians in the men's race have been disqualified for the use of fluorinated wax or tuning products.

Not the only fluor issue. Also the skis of two of the Brazilian women (not Bruna) have tested positive, but that was the day before the 7.5k and so they couldn't use those skis, but were allowed to start. Yet another reason why absolutely nothing of Bruna goes into the Brazilian wax cabin, we know for a fact there are at the very least traces of fluor there from earlier competitions. 

 

Skis have to be tested before the race now, or else one risks a DQ (which luckily another athlete told Bruna by coincidence, the 'team' didn't say anything and without that she wouldn't even have known and might have been DQ'ed, despite having always had clean skis).

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On 2/26/2025 at 6:19 PM, mrv86 said:

Yes, we currently have one woman and one man quota in Alpine, but I think they only be given official status if they keep their FIS Points until the end of qualification period, while now we have a man and woman already achieving the basic quotas in cross country. 
 

Edit: although they too need to keep their FIS points under 350.00 (achievable, not certain).

I just realized this and was going back to your post to talk about it, just now I see you already added it  

 

I really hope it's possible, she said she will still do another race somewhere in Norway next week for starters, but it might be very hard. So far she had never really been close to the 350 points mark in the current points system, with last Wednesday's race being the first (and 298, so an excellent start). She needs it as an average though, so there are more needed of at least around 350...

 

No idea about the men, I follow that a bit less closely, but for Regina it's gonna be tough in the next 11 months or so. Not impossible though!

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Huge huge crowds out on the tracks today.  

 

Plenty hot dogs if the runners get the hunger knick.