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  On 11/2/2017 at 6:48 PM, heywoodu said:

50km classic, the king of all XC events :cheer:

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And it's not on the last day, WTF. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

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  On 11/2/2017 at 7:02 PM, dcro said:

 

And it's not on the last day, WTF. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

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Because more people are interested in seeing a grand total of two or possibly, on a good day, three women fight it out over 30km.

 

:cry:

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  On 11/2/2017 at 7:54 PM, heywoodu said:

Because more people are interested in seeing a grand total of two or possibly, on a good day, three women fight it out over 30km.

 

:cry:

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All in the name of gender equality. :sick:

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But really, the only XC discipline that I care about these days is the interval start (ok, relays are fine too). Mass starts are so tedious, particulary skiathlons...

 

I watched 30km interval start race from Lillehammer 1994 recently. That was just awesome. :bowdown:

 

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  On 11/2/2017 at 8:23 PM, intoronto said:

All in the name of gender equality. :sick:

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In this case, I doubt it, it's not like the women's 30km in itself is new or something :p 

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  On 11/2/2017 at 8:54 PM, dcro said:

But really, the only XC discipline that I care about these days is the interval start (ok, relays are fine too). Mass starts are so tedious, particulary skiathlons...

 

 

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If you include the 50k (especially classic) in that, you Sir, are on my infamous "don't take this person seriously about cross-country skiing" list :spank:

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  On 11/2/2017 at 9:50 PM, heywoodu said:

If you include the 50k (especially classic) in that, you Sir, are on my infamous "don't take this person seriously about cross-country skiing" list :spank:

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Only if it ever returns to interval start, where there's actually something to follow for the most of the race.

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  On 11/2/2017 at 8:54 PM, dcro said:

But really, the only XC discipline that I care about these days is the interval start (ok, relays are fine too). Mass starts are so tedious, particulary skiathlons...

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I would agree with you some years ago (when you could make a Lineker-ish quote like: "Cross-country skiing is a simple sport. A bunch of men ski for 50 km and at the end, Northug wins"), but after Johan Olsson started with his daring attacks showing that they could actually create something, I would say that they are really interesting again. Sadly some of the most interesting skiers are either retired (Olsson) or doped (the russians), but I would still not agree.

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