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

[copravolley 312]

Unfortunately, Pellegrino was very weak today. He failed to medal the Italians. Out of 3 real chances, he won one certain silver here, but he failed twice in the finish. 4th or 5th place is ok, but at the World Championships medals are what counts the most and we have dramatically few of them this winter season. Basically, without Brignone, we probably would have the worst winter season in the 21st century. Italy is the leader in terms of occupying 4-5 places, whether in summer or winter.

Edited March 5 by copravolley

[phelps 7,780]

  On 3/5/2025 at 2:48 PM, copravolley said:

Unfortunately, Pellegrino was very weak today. He failed to medal the Italians. Out of 3 real chances, he won one certain silver here, but he failed twice in the finish. 4th or 5th place is ok, but at the World Championships medals are what counts the most and we have dramatically few of them this winter season. Basically, without Brignone, we probably would have the worst winter season in the 21st century. Italy is the leader in terms of occupying 4-5 places, whether in summer or winter.

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are you kidding me?

c'mon! Pellegrino did more than he actually would, he closed down on Vuorinen on the last climb (destroying Jouve and Shoemaker)...he only paid the prize of not being 1.90m * 100kg to the Finn and to Anger on the last straight

same on Saturday...it took the big Norwegian squad to be 4 of them closing on him on the last turn before the final downhill to keep him at bay (and he almost did it in any case)

 

ps in snow sports, world cups are a more serious indicator of how good an athlete is...world champs races are just too influenced by the given day conditions (weather rather than the track)

and this year we have a lot of wins in snowboard, alpine skiing, freestyle and in the ice disciplines (all sports where, except for AS, in any case the world champs haven't occurred yet)

[copravolley 312]

  On 3/5/2025 at 3:03 PM, phelps said:

are you kidding me?

c'mon! Pellegrino did more than he actually would, he closed down on Vuorinen on the last climb (destroying Jouve and Shoemaker)...he only paid the prize of not being 1.90m * 100kg to the Finn and to Anger on the last straight

same on Saturday...it took the big Norwegian squad to be 4 of them closing on him on the last turn before the final downhill to keep him at bay (and he almost did it in any case)

 

ps in snow sports, world cups are a more serious indicator of how good an athlete is...world champs races are just too influenced by the given day conditions (weather rather than the track)

and this year we have a lot of wins in snowboard, alpine skiing, freestyle and in the ice disciplines (all sports where, except for AS, in any case the world champs haven't occurred yet)

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For now we have only 4 medals in Olympic competitions and it's early March... I did the calculations recently and it turned out that we can win 10-12 medals this year at most. This is a poor result 1 year before the home games. Yes, we are bloody unlucky, because in biathlon, cross-country, alpine skiing, luge we have a lot of 4-5 places, but there are practically no positive surprises. Summer in Paris we had the most 4 places out of all, but there were many medals in +. There is nothing like that here. If you expect us to suddenly jump above 20 medals next year, I admire your optimism...

Edited March 5 by copravolley

[NearPup 3,141]

Was very surprised to see gold medals for  and  until I remembered there are a few para sport events included this year.

 

So I guess technically this counts as the first ever gold medal for South America in a winter sport world championship?

[intoronto 5,839]

  On 3/5/2025 at 2:48 PM, copravolley said:

Unfortunately, Pellegrino was very weak today. He failed to medal the Italians. Out of 3 real chances, he won one certain silver here, but he failed twice in the finish. 4th or 5th place is ok, but at the World Championships medals are what counts the most and we have dramatically few of them this winter season. Basically, without Brignone, we probably would have the worst winter season in the 21st century. Italy is the leader in terms of occupying 4-5 places, whether in summer or winter.

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Canada says 

[hckošice 15,075]

Women's Team Sprint Classical
Final Results

 

Sweden

Jonna Sundling

Maja Dahlqvist

20:51.63

 

United States

Jessie Diggins

Julia Kern

20:54.53

 

Switzerland

Anja Weber

Nadine Faehndrich

21:00.76

 

Full Final Result HERE

[heywoodu 15,321]

  On 3/5/2025 at 4:44 PM, NearPup said:

Was very surprised to see gold medals for  and  until I remembered there are a few para sport events included this year.

 

So I guess technically this counts as the first ever gold medal for South America in a winter sport world championship?

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Nope, Aline Rocha got gold in the sitting sprint two years ago, she is the one who wrote the history

 

[hckošice 15,075]

Men's Team Sprint Classical
Final Results

 

Norway

Erik Valnes

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo

18:27.71

 

Finland

Ristomatti Hakola

Lauri Vuorinen

18:31.81

 

Sweden

Oskar Svensson

Edvin Anger

18:31.82

 

Full Final Result HERE

[Orangehair43 254]

The Men’s 50k on Saturday is not live on British TV.. Only available on streaming. Highlights on in the evening, The Women’s is on through on Sunday. . 

Edited March 6 by Orangehair43

[Grassmarket 3,587]

  On 3/6/2025 at 12:09 AM, Orangehair43 said:

The Men’s 50k on Saturday is not live on British TV.. Only available on streaming. Highlights on in the evening, The Women’s is on through on Sunday. . 

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Inevitable when ES was merged with TNT.  Football, snooker and rugby will always have precedence.