Nordic Combined 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[Dunadan 1,103]

The season is already over for Samuel Costa. He announced that

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My Olympic dream has to wait 4 more years. Together with Doc. Arnold Gurndin we decide to fix my knee properly and that means some months of rest. Few days ago I did the last operation at the Dolomiti Sportclinic to fix my lateral ligament.

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[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 10/31/2017 at 5:24 PM, Dunadan said:

The season is already over for Samuel Costa. He announced that

 

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Damn, Italian winter sports is getting blow after blow these weeks...3rd season-ending injury for Olympians (or potential Olympians) I think with the luger and Gaspari included?

[Gianlu33 4,750]

What drama for David  He's one of the my favorite athletes..

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 10/31/2017 at 6:08 PM, Gianlu33 said:

What drama for David  He's one of the my favorite athletes..

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David? 

[Dunadan 1,103]

  On 10/31/2017 at 5:34 PM, heywoodu said:

Damn, Italian winter sports is getting blow after blow these weeks...3rd season-ending injury for Olympians (or potential Olympians) I think with the luger and Gaspari included?

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Yes, hopefully he is the last one. Unlucky injuries happening lately to several athletes. 

[Gianlu33 4,750]

  On 10/31/2017 at 6:17 PM, heywoodu said:

David? 

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Samuel  I spoke whit a my friend on whatsap.. and see, he's name is Davide  I'm very confused today  

[phelps 7,862]

  On 10/31/2017 at 5:34 PM, heywoodu said:

Damn, Italian winter sports is getting blow after blow these weeks...3rd season-ending injury for Olympians (or potential Olympians) I think with the luger and Gaspari included?

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Yes, and Brignone's situation is not that clear...there are rumors about her problem being chronical (she suffers from groin inflammation and some newspapers wrote that it's given by a bone edema, which is not possible to be fixed if not with a very long pause...and of course this would mean at least a full season off, which she won't take in this particular year obviously)...

 

by the way, also Fabio Francolini (Speedskating) has a lot of troubles right now (he's fighting against a stomach virus) and will probably miss the first part of the World Cup season...

 

definitely our Olympic campaign has not started under the most brilliant star...

but I hope that we can still find the way to cancel the awful rememberings of Sochi (when we didn't win a single Gold medal)...

Edited October 31, 2017 by phelps

[heywoodu 15,355]

At the world juniors we'll have a women's test event tomorrow and OH MY GOD THERE'S A DUTCH GIRL!!!

 

http://ewoxx.de/Lists/15912/1812/2018NK4152SLT.pdf

 

 

I guess she's the younger sister of Max Teeling (1999), who took some (gold) medals home af this week's Dutch XC champs  

 

[heywoodu 15,355]

Out of curiousity: in the normal hill vs large hill competition, does anyone really have an advantage in one event compared to the other? I mean, I'd guess the best jumpers have a bigger advantage on the large hill? 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 1/30/2018 at 5:11 PM, heywoodu said:

Out of curiousity: in the normal hill vs large hill competition, does anyone really have an advantage in one event compared to the other? I mean, I'd guess the best jumpers have a bigger advantage on the large hill? 

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It's the same as with ski jumping - no difference.

 

But, as I said before, winter program has no events so it's completely normal to have multiple almost same events...