Cross-Country Skiing FIS World Cup 2020 - 2021

[heywoodu 16,015]

27 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I don’t know...the Finnish skier was in front, and he chose the outer lane. The Russian followed him into the lane (not on purpose most likely), and then was mad that the Finnish skier skied in the center of that lane. To me, that part of the move was clean. If the Russian is faster, then the onus is on him to go into a different lane and pass. Now, if the Finnish skier blocks him then, then that would be a dirty move.

Exactly. Basically Bolshunov tried to get into a space that did not exist. Yeah, then it goes wrong. Although it would still be great to finally get an angle from the front from the moment they're still in the corner. The replays started a little too late.

[dcro 10,210]

Sometimes I like to keep track of what happens to Instagram accounts of the relatively unknown athletes who suddenly get into spotlight for whatever reason (like Joni Maeki today).

 

Apparently getting bullied by Bolshunov is worth about 2k followers.

[rybak 3,307]

Norway, Norway and Norway 

[justony 466]

It is really hard to tell. But nevertheless a very bad reaction from Bolshunov, so it is fair to be penalised for his behaviour.

[dcro 10,210]

Oh, he apologized.

 

Via press release, no less.

 

All is forgiven ofc.

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/cross-country/cross-country-news-multimedia/news/2020-21/coop-fis-cross-country-season-2020-21-will-conclude-in-norway

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Forgiveness is the usual outcome of an apology.

 

It would suck if he was banned, maybe deserved, but with Norwegians back, entertainment value would drop hard without him.

 

Fines work, don't they? Lets do that.

[heywoodu 16,015]

18 hours ago, dcro said:

Oh, he apologized.

 

Via press release, no less.

 

All is forgiven ofc.

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/cross-country/cross-country-news-multimedia/news/2020-21/coop-fis-cross-country-season-2020-21-will-conclude-in-norway

This confuses me:

 

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The COOP FIS Cross-Country World Cup finals will take place in Lillehammer (NOR) from 19th to 21st March 2021. The final World Cup competitios of the season 2020/21 were originally scheduled in Beijing (CHN) but had to be cancelled earlier in the season. With Lillehammer in replacement, a save solution was found in connection to the overall calendar as the FIS Cross-Country family will be located in Oslo (NOR) the weekend before, for the Holmenkollen Skifest. 

 

In the meantime, the two Cross-Country World Cup events in Norway were given green light thanks to the approval of the health concept by the national health authorities. 

 

The schedule for Oslo can be found here. The detailed programme for the World Cup finals in Lillehammer will be published as soon as possible on the World Cup calendar on fisski.com/cross-country.

But....Lillehammer was for early December and has been postponed, after which the women's ski jumping and the Nordic combined were recently finally given a date (in February), but the cross-country events there are still listed as postponed. 

 

Oslo is still the only World Cup in Norway this season according to the FIS calendar, but this FIS article suggests otherwise.

[heywoodu 16,015]

Oh and this is pretty sweet  

https://papplikum-oberstdorf2021.com

[JonPhi 250]

Manificat, Parisse and Lappiere are out for Falun due to COVID-19.

[rybak 3,307]

I noticed a skier from  on start list of tomorrow mens 15km race, good luck to him, I hope that he will somehow manage qualify to Beijing 2022.