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

[dcro 10,210]

  On 2/22/2021 at 6:02 PM, heywoodu said:

Or because of fast athletes deciding to compete, who don't have a lot of FIS races/good FIS points and so need to start in the qualifying race...

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Crnković comes to mind.

 

He destroyed the field in 2017... in classic technique...

[intoronto 5,855]

was scheduled to compete but I don't think they are here.

[heywoodu 15,335]

Roll call during yesterday's team captain's meeting (courtesy of TTO's Instagram)

 

 

Tanzania represent  

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=253856&raceid=37690

 

And New Zealand is there with (at least) young and promising biathlete Campbell Wright, which is cool. Bolivia probably with the Finnish guy, and Venezuela probably not with Solano  

[dcro 10,210]

No Moldova?

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/23/2021 at 7:25 AM, dcro said:

No Moldova?

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Not having those suddenly appearing fast Moldovans is not an unwelcome surprise  

 

But who knows, this was the roll call for last night, maybe tonight is different since people are still arriving.

[Olympian1010 8,070]

  On 2/23/2021 at 5:48 AM, heywoodu said:

Roll call during yesterday's team captain's meeting (courtesy of TTO's Instagram)

 

 

Tanzania represent  

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=253856&raceid=37690

 

And New Zealand is there with (at least) young and promising biathlete Campbell Wright, which is cool. Bolivia probably with the Finnish guy, and Venezuela probably not with Solano  

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Countries missing who had skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics:

 

I’m a little surprised that India, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova didn’t field skiers.

[dcro 10,210]

  On 2/23/2021 at 7:46 AM, heywoodu said:

Not having those suddenly appearing fast Moldovans is not an unwelcome surprise  

 

But who knows, this was the roll call for last night, maybe tonight is different since people are still arriving.

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They had some non-biathlete racers at FIS races recently. Would be shocking if they skipped this.

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/23/2021 at 7:48 AM, Olympian1010 said:

Countries missing who had skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics:

 

I’m a little surprised that India, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova didn’t field skiers.

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I was sort of surprised about Togo, but now I see they weren't in 2019 neither and Petitjean has basically not competed anymore since early 2018. Too bad.

[heywoodu 15,335]

Weather forecast: temperatures dropping to below zero again and even towards -10 and under during the night.....from Monday 8 March, the day after  

[heywoodu 15,335]

List of countries in the women's qualifying race (or at least with women on the list that says "Athletes allowed to enter for the qualification race"):

 

Argentina

Armenia x2

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Brazil x3

Bulgaria

Chile

Colombia

Croatia

Greece x3

Hungary

Iran x6 (!)

Iceland

Latvia x4

Lebanon x3

Lithuania x4

Mexico

Mongolia x3

Macedonia x3

Montenegro

Portugal

Serbia x2

Thailand