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

[heywoodu 15,174]

25 minutes ago, dcro said:

Nika Jagečić should be able to quality out of the women's race.

 

Our guys, not so much.

I have Jagecic going for 3rd-5th, for what it's worth  

[prso1000 667]

I am not sure how the qualification system works, but for e.g. Croatia is practically impossible to get a 2nd quota per gender, right? 
 

unless you are in top 30 nations? Is that ranking somewhere available? 
 

 

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, prso1000 said:

I am not sure how the qualification system works, but for e.g. Croatia is practically impossible to get a 2nd quota per gender, right? 
 

unless you are in top 30 nations? Is that ranking somewhere available? 
 

 

Probably, although Skender already collected some points in Finland (a notable Top 30 result in the sprint).

 

I guess we are right around the 30th place in both genders so this event could be crucial.

[Olympian1010 7,990]

52 minutes ago, dcro said:

Start lists are out.

 

As feared, we will lose many nations for the Olympics. are already out for sure.

 

As for the others,

No chance of qualification - 

Could go either way -

 

Everyone else should be safe to go under 300 pts (at least in one gender)...

Yeah, should be a noticeable decrease in nations from Pyeongchang 2018 

[JonPhi 250]

Athletes from Norway are not very happy about the conditions in Oberstdorf 

https://www.ski-nordique.net/emil-iversen-les-pires-conditions-rencontrees-dans-ma-vie.6370335-72348.html

[Grassmarket 3,448]

1 hour ago, justony said:

  Team Slovenia 

 

Men

• Janez Lampič
• Benjamin Črv
• Vili Črv

 

Women

• Anamarija Lampič
• Eva Urevc
• Anja Mandeljc

 

More will follow on Slovenia National Thread.

Impressive. Three guys in the team, but only two vowels.

[mrv86 3,138]

How does the qualification race works? A specific time or a top position?

[heywoodu 15,174]

19 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

How does the qualification race works? A specific time or a top position?

Two things: to qualify for the main race, athletes have to be in the top-10 and get a total of under 180.00 FIS points, the latter being a combination of the strength of the (top of the) field and the time difference with the one(s) in front.

 

Which is a problem for the women, since the by far strongest athlete in the race has bad FIS points, because she barely competes in FIS races and is a World Cup level biathlete.

[heywoodu 15,174]

44 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

Athletes from Norway are not very happy about the conditions in Oberstdorf 

https://www.ski-nordique.net/emil-iversen-les-pires-conditions-rencontrees-dans-ma-vie.6370335-72348.html

Tomorrow morning it could be a bit less bad though. Too bad, right when our Brazilian today figured out how to really get through the watery downhills  

[mrv86 3,138]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Two things: to qualify for the main race, athletes have to be in the top-10 and get a total of under 180.00 FIS points, the latter being a combination of the strength of the (top of the) field and the time difference with the one(s) in front.

 

Which is a problem for the women, since the by far strongest athlete in the race has bad FIS points, because she barely competes in FIS races and is a World Cup level biathlete.

Thank you

 

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