Cross-Country Skiing 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

@ahjfcshfghb What's going to be next for Rai? I see now that Ignalina races were also cancelled.

 

Bosnia? Or maybe Poland before?

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

@ahjfcshfghb What's going to be next for Rai? I see now that Ignalina races were also cancelled.

 

Bosnia? Or maybe Poland before?

Poland kinda sounds like a waste of energy...doesn't it? 

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Poland kinda sounds like a waste of energy...doesn't it? 

 

Not sure. She did pretty well at Strbske Pleso (which was Slavic Cup race). Poland is just a general FIS race so I suppose it might be easier than SC.

 

Even without Poland there seem to be enough races left... Two freestyles in , two in , and then probably two more in (or 1 + 1 ).

 

That is pretty risky though for the women's races.

[heywoodu 15,174]

I'd go for Bosnia all the way and then see what else might be needed. 

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

I'd go for Bosnia all the way and then see what else might be needed. 

 

That sound alright. There is a good news for Rai as Ravna Gora's freestyle sprint was changed to 2.5km free. So she may as well have all of the remaining races in these parts. 

[heywoodu 15,174]

37 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

That sound alright. There is a good news for Rai as Ravna Gora's freestyle sprint was changed to 2.5km free. So she may as well have all of the remaining races in these parts. 

Gotta love those times when a 2.5km race counts for distance points  

[heywoodu 15,174]

Miriam Neureuther (Gössner) will quit biathlon and focus only on cross-country from now on. "I've never been the best shooter and nowadays you basically need to shoot clean...especially being a mom, I simply don't have the time that I need to improve my shooting, but I still have a lot of fun skiing, so I'm going to focus on that."

[dcro 10,210]

The newest quota simulation is out. Interesting, Croatia (and Latvia, perhaps some more) are back to having 2 female quotas despite each having only one female athlete with A standard.

 

I think it's actually quite possible that someone complained and said that qualification system does not actually say that you NEED 2 A athletes to get 2 quotas in one gender.

 

Also Iceland now has 2 male athletes, only one of which got the A standard. I'm pretty sure that's what happened!

Edited January 4, 2018 by dcro

[dcro 10,210]

However, it's also possible that someone did a lousy job with the newest update.

 

China now has only 1 women's quota, even though they should have 2 by every logic...

[dcro 10,210]

4 hours ago, dcro said:

China now has only 1 women's quota, even though they should have 2 by every logic...

 

Looks like they read this comment.

 

It has been corrected.