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

[hckošice 15,519]

quite weird to see Bendika skiing without rifle on her back

 

however when a Latvian biathlete destroy the best SVK cross country skier, you know there something horribly wrong in our nordic skiing

[Monzanator 4,768]

Baiba Bendika finished 35th

[FancyFenchel 111]

Bendika gets some air time

and german commentators from Eurosport didn't knew she is a biathlete.  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Excellent race for Jaque

 

 

[FancyFenchel 111]

 beats  

 

 beats  

[dcro 10,210]

Basic quota for Greece and Hungary (quite controversially, since Ponya was not supposed to race today...).

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina joins Northern Macedonia on the sidelines....

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Basic quota for Greece and Hungary (quite controversially, since Ponya was not supposed to race today...).

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina joins Northern Macedonia on the sidelines....

 

That's odd indeed. The rule was (different from what I was thinking) top-10 in the qualifying race plus under 180 points on the FIS list (so not specifically in the qualifying race), but even so, Ponya being a biathlete doesn't have those points. Weird.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Meanwhile, the updated rankings (again, manually, so the usual disclaimer). It's going to be incredibly interesting/important to see who'll compete where in these last few races where points can be scored.

 

[LowerSaxony 205]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Basic quota for Greece and Hungary (quite controversially, since Ponya was not supposed to race today...).

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina joins Northern Macedonia on the sidelines....

 

Serbia should also be new among those with basic quota

[Grassmarket 4,028]

41 minutes ago, FancyFenchel said:

Bendika gets some air time

and german commentators from Eurosport didn't knew she is a biathlete.  

I’ve told this story before, but about a decade back most commentators did not realise that the Kaisa Mäkäräinen who competed on the Biathlon Tour & the Kaisa Maekaeraeinin who competed on the Cross Country Tour were the same person.