Cross-Country Skiing 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[Quasit 865]

Not liking the TdS results so far but okay for now, given the OG are most important.

[heywoodu 15,161]

On 1/1/2018 at 13:43, Quasit said:

Not liking the TdS results so far but okay for now, given the OG are most important.

What's so bad about Cologna? 

[heywoodu 15,161]

Amazing 130 FIS points for Juan Agurto (Chile) yesterday in Turkey! If I heard so correctly, Chile will choose their athlete based on who has the single best result, not on who has the best average. Yonathan Fernandez has a much better average, but his best so far is a 132 (and he didn't finish yesterday), so this might be fantastic for Juan. Still nothing is sure, so I'm not celebrating too early yet, let's see how he does tomorrow.

 

Claudia Salcedo had 156 points (if I'm not mistaken), which means she only needs a half-decent result in Turkey's last race tomorrow to get her average back under 300 and qualify for Pyeongchang, vamos Claudia 

[Quasit 865]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

What's so bad about Cologna? 

Nothing, but Norway and Sweden are not performing well. Mainly on the men's side. Also expected more from Musgrave.

[heywoodu 15,161]

Just now, Quasit said:

Nothing, but Norway and Sweden are not performing well. Mainly on the men's side. Also expected more from Musgrave.

Tomorrow's another sprint, who knows what he can do there  (although it's classic instead of free)

[dcro 10,210]

17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Claudia Salcedo had 156 points (if I'm not mistaken), which means she only needs a half-decent result in Turkey's last race tomorrow to get her average back under 300 and qualify for Pyeongchang, vamos Claudia 

 

She is already qualified (has <300 at Olympic points list).

[heywoodu 15,161]

Just now, dcro said:

 

She is already qualified (has <300 at Olympic points list).

Oh I thought the list at xx January counted 

 

Well then she was right after all, when she said she was qualified. Good thing I wished her good luck then

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Oh I thought the list at xx January counted 

 

Well then she was right after all, when she said she was qualified. Good thing I wished her good luck then

 

It's Olympic list, so yeah, every result since summer 2016 counts.

[dcro 10,210]

Pita smashed his non-Bogota PB today, but still came ~30 points short.

 

His average is now 306.10. Maybe he'll get invited if he goes under 305 (it would only be fair after the same thing was done for and skiers in 2014...).

 

Rai 321 today.

Edited January 3, 2018 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,161]

157 for Yonathan, which should mean Juan is still in pole position for Chile's Olympic ticket...hopefully it remains that way and they're not gonna change the rules last-minute or something. 

 

Meanwhile Lutz doesn't get under 200, too bad for him, but good news for Victor Santos