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

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

 

Trondheim (NOR) - 26 February 2024 - 9 March 2024

 

 

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Edited February 24, 2025 by Sindo

[heywoodu 16,468]

Too bad I'm awful at recognizing people, but at least I recognized Klæbo and Niskanen on the track and thanks to the fact that the top athletes have bibs with their names, I've also recognized Golberg, Jenssen and Schumacher

 

Track is SO icy, it is unbelievable. Even walking on it was a major challenge yesterday. Gonna be super difficult to keep straight and everything Wednesday and Thursday. 

Edited February 24, 2025 by heywoodu

[copravolley 656]

17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Too bad I'm awful at recognizing people, but at least I recognized Klæbo and Niskanen on the track and thanks to the fact that the top athletes have bibs with their names, I've also recognized Golberg, Jenssen and Schumacher

 

Track is SO icy, it is unbelievable. Even walking on it was a major challenge yesterday. Gonna be super difficult to keep straight and everything Wednesday and Thursday. 

Out of curiosity, if your wife wanted to start for the Netherlands, what would her chances of participating in the games look like + possible financing from Ned skiing federation? This is a hypothetical question, of course.

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

Out of curiosity, if your wife wanted to start for the Netherlands, what would her chances of participating in the games look like + possible financing from Ned skiing federation? This is a hypothetical question, of course.

Zero

 

Dutch NOC would for sure ask for top-8 in a World Cup and that's just not realistic..

[NearPup 4,188]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Zero

 

Dutch NOC would for sure ask for top-8 in a World Cup and that's just not realistic..

I can understand having stricter standards where the universal quotas are very easy to achieve relatively speaking, but the Dutch NOC really takes it to a whole other level. The Olympics would be pretty terrible if every country had those policies.

[Grassmarket 4,314]

20 minutes ago, NearPup said:

I can understand having stricter standards where the universal quotas are very easy to achieve relatively speaking, but the Dutch NOC really takes it to a whole other level. The Olympics would be pretty terrible if every country had those policies.

is the same. Top 10 or watch on TV.  I've seen guys crying because they finished 11th in the keirin B Final.

Edited February 24, 2025 by Grassmarket

[NearPup 4,188]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

is the same. Top 10 or watch on TV.

Don't give Bach any ideas, only top 10 athletes in every events!

 

Just imagine how great the Marathon, the road race and mass start cross countr races will be.

Edited February 24, 2025 by NearPup

[copravolley 656]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

I can understand having stricter standards where the universal quotas are very easy to achieve relatively speaking, but the Dutch NOC really takes it to a whole other level. The Olympics would be pretty terrible if every country had those policies.

Yes, but they are effective. They invest everything in speed skating and short track + in some individual units with good results, e.g. Dekker in women's snowboard or in a girl in women's skeleton. Italy, on the other hand, invests in everything, e.g. men`s ski jumping, nordic combined, etc., but doesn`t have any dominant discipline and mostly get beat up: from Switzerland in alpine skiing, from Norway and France in biathlon and from Germany and Austria in luge etc.

Edited February 24, 2025 by copravolley

[heywoodu 16,468]

31 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Yes, but they are effective. They invest everything in speed skating and short track + in some individual units with good results, e.g. Dekker in women's snowboard or in a girl in women's skeleton. Italy, on the other hand, invests in everything, e.g. men`s ski jumping, nordic combined, etc., but doesn`t have any dominant discipline and mostly get beat up: from Switzerland in alpine skiing, from Norway and France in biathlon and from Germany and Austria in luge etc.

Not to get too far off topic, but let's not pretend the Netherlands has more medal chances than Italy in Cortina

 

[copravolley 656]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not to get too far off topic, but let's not pretend the Netherlands has more medal chances than Italy in Cortina

 

What's about with Roest? Has he given up on this season?