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

[Olympian1010 7,951]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

There's Lithuania already and, with that, their two Olympic tickets.

Uh...unless I missed something, they never got a basic quota, so this would be only one quota for them.

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Uh...unless I missed something, they never got a basic quota, so this would be only one quota for them.

The only justice in all of this...

[Olympian1010 7,951]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

The only justice in all of this...

It might be why they’re going for it more than other countries. All the other countries on the bubble already have a guaranteed quota, so it’s only a bonus quota for them. 
 

Also, I see nothing wrong with Lithuania entering a relay. 
 

I actually quite like the new qualification system. I do think it could be refined here and here, but overall it seems to be a good qualification system. It’s increased the importance of the World Championships for smaller countries, added a little more tension, and has a fair distribution of quotas that both encourages participation of smaller countries, and still rewards those at the top. 

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6 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

It might be why they’re going for it more than other countries. All the other countries on the bubble already have a guaranteed quota, so it’s only a bonus quota for them. 
 

Also, I see nothing wrong with Lithuania entering a relay. 
 

I actually quite like the new qualification system. I do think it could be refined here and here, but overall it seems to be a good qualification system. It’s increased the importance of the World Championships for smaller countries, added a little more tension, and has a fair distribution of quotas that both encourages participation of smaller countries, and still rewards those at the top. 

Just because it's legal, does not mean it's just.

 

FIS themselves have a system (in snowboard and freestyle skiing), where the last placed individuals/nations (not just the last, something like the bottom 10%) receive heavily reduced points. They should have used the same formula for the nations cup here. Maybe they do, actually.

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4 hours ago, Monzanator said:

I suppose the revival of 5km distances has helped RL Roponen a lot. She's older than Raisa Smetanina when CIS relay won Olympic gold in 1992

And yet she got 10th in the 10k race. Wonderful technician.

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Men’s Relay http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2021/CC/2072/2021CC2072SLES.pdf

[dcro 10,210]

So congrats once again to all the B nations on the start list.

[heywoodu 14,940]

6 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Uh...unless I missed something, they never got a basic quota, so this would be only one quota for them.

Right, yeah  I was too focussed on top-30 meaning two tickets  

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Just realised how much hate Lithuania got just for starting at the event... wow.

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5 minutes ago, Bearas said:

Just realised how much hate Lithuania got just for starting at the event... wow.

It's not hate towards Lithuania at all (at least that's not how it was meant from my side), it's more of an amazement at the incredible opportunity missed by other countries and Lithuania being the 'image' of that opportunity. With some luck, it might be the exact same thing for Brazil in the men's event.