Cross-Country Skiing 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

Big FIS points for all of them today. :/

 

I imagine freestyle will suit them better (at least to everyone except Madrazo).

[Dragon 2,026]

19 minutes ago, dcro said:

Big FIS points for all of them today. :/

 

I imagine freestyle will suit them better (at least to everyone except Madrazo).

Have you got the real results yet?

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

Have you got the real results yet?

 

https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=CC&raceid=30805

[dcro 10,210]

Slight improvement, but still far away from qualification for Project Bogota. Tawk was also disappointingly bad (over 400, while in Western Europe he managed <400). At least Human (yes, that's his name) scored 200 FIS points. He should qualify after the next race.

 

At this point I doubt Pita/Uprimny/Madrazo could qualify at any non-Bogota race. They needed almost an hour for 15km. Maybe some chance for Madrazo in a classic race, as he is better there than in freestyle (very unusual for exotic nation skier).

[Dragon 2,026]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Slight improvement, but still far away from qualification for Project Bogota. Tawk was also disappointingly bad (over 400, while in Western Europe he managed <400). At least Human (yes, that's his name) scored 200 FIS points. He should qualify after the next race.

 

At this point I doubt Pita/Uprimny/Madrazo could qualify at any non-Bogota race. They needed almost an hour for 15km. Maybe some chance for Madrazo in a classic race, as he is better there than in freestyle (very unusual for exotic nation skier).

How long will it take to organize the Tongan national roller skiing championship (with guest competitors of course) in somewhere like Bermuda?

That's how Vanessa-Mae qualified for Sochi - by organising her own Thai National Championships.

 

Just wanted to check on Pita's points

266

245

270

298

537

Average 323?

Needs to drop 23?

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[dcro 10,210]

17 minutes ago, Dragon said:

How long will it take to organize the Tongan national roller skiing championship (with guest competitors of course) in somewhere like Bermuda?

That's how Vanessa-Mae qualified for Sochi - by organising her own Thai National Championships.

 

Just wanted to check on Pita's points

266

245

270

298

537

Average 323?

Needs to drop 23?

 

I wouldn't know about that. Maybe @ahjfcshfghb knows more? But then again, I wouldn't really use Vanessa-Mae as a role model when it comes to the Olympic qualifiction.

 

He needs one more result of 419 or better to put AVG under 300. Effectively that meant he needed to be about 4-5 minutes faster today...

 

 

[ahjfcshfghb 294]

8 hours ago, dcro said:

 

I wouldn't know about that. Maybe @ahjfcshfghb knows more? But then again, I wouldn't really use Vanessa-Mae as a role model when it comes to the Olympic qualifiction.

 

He needs one more result of 419 or better to put AVG under 300. Effectively that meant he needed to be about 4-5 minutes faster today...

 

 

Well I asked Bogota and they said they’d had it planned since last season. I’m honestly not sure if you can do it just like that! 

[heywoodu 16,004]

14 hours ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Well I asked Bogota and they said they’d had it planned since last season. I’m honestly not sure if you can do it just like that! 

I'm not sure if it's good to write that on a public forum where FIS might go when searching thoroughly  (and yes, I heard the same thing a while back)

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

I'm not sure if it's good to write that on a public forum where FIS might go when searching thoroughly  (and yes, I heard the same thing a while back)

 

Well, it's all within the rules (not bribing stewards like some other skiers may have done).

[dcro 10,210]

Very successful post-Christmas race in Erzurum! Except for Pita and Madrazo.

 

Uprimny (aka Iron Man) scored 418.21 pts, enough to qualify for Pyeongchang.   Human also officially qualified by scoring well below 200. Even Tawk nailed it today, less than 200 FIS points too!