Cross-Country Skiing at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2021

[heywoodu 15,141]

It's not very interesting to watch, but I can only respect the way Johaug keeps on punishing the course meter after meter, damn.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Very poor race. Needed more crashes.

[JonPhi 250]

Diggins 2 minutes of Johaug ...

 

Great 7th Place from Claudel, the same on Tuesday again, please 

[Swewi 382]

Andersson would not have challenged Johaug even with a better ski change but I wonder what Karlsson could have done without the fall. And so happy for Kalla, best race in forever!

[heywoodu 15,141]

Talking about deceptions: 29th place, four minutes behind for Katharina Hennig.

[heywoodu 15,141]

Spotted myself under the Venezuelan flag  

[OlympicsFan 858]

Another bad day for the sport when a doper steals another medal. Also another horribly boring race. Cross-country should be one of the most exciting sports, but for the last few years it has mostly been super boring. Not sure what can be done to change it. The difference between Norway/Sweden and the rest is just too big. It would be a start to allow less athletes from Norway/Sweden to compete and to focus more on shorter races. I think with climate change the gap will otherwise just get bigger.

[SalamAkhi 317]

What a performance from Claudel 

Did really well in classic and 4th time in the skating part of the race ! Very promising for the 10k  

[LowerSaxony 205]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Talking about deceptions: 29th place, four minutes behind for Katharina Hennig.

The entire CC/NC German team with completely inferior material for the third day in a row. Not the only team of course, but kinda sad on the home turf.

 

And honestly, I hope Johaug will quit soon. Women's mass start races are completely unwatchable with her on the start list. No climax, field destroyed after minutes. Tour de Ski 2021 was such a delight without her. ;-)

[heywoodu 15,141]

Greece made a big jump with their three lapped athletes today, Brazil won five positions and is not entirely out of it yet in terms of fighting for the second quota.