Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[hckošice 16,640]

4 minutes ago, Pifta said:

But WHY?

 

No idea. Maybe they thought the team events and longer distance events are not so attractive for TV viewers or so, I really don´t know, I was also surprised when they revealed the calendar that there no relays this season   Also there only 1 team sprint scheduled throughout the whole season

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

 

It's not all that black and white for me. If anything, athletes can look more sharp the day after.

Athletes shouldn't look sharp on the podium, they should look exhausted and entirely full with the emotion of a huge success only moments ago. It's sports, not a fashion show. 

Edited November 3, 2017 by heywoodu

[NearPup 4,188]

FWIW it doesn't look like anything overlaps with the men's 50km race except the parallel snowboarding finals (and even that ends less than an hour into the 50km race) so it's not like it doesn't have a good spot on the schedule. The women's 30km free actually overlaps entirely with the men's hockey final so arguable the 50km actually had the better spot on the schedule.

 

It's actually kinda crazy how bad the scheduling is for the last day, they only have four events yet you will always have two events at once (four man bobsleigh and women's curling also overlap).

[heywoodu 16,468]

The Norwegian federation has selected ten athletes yesterday, six women, four men:

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Marit Bjørgen

Maiken Caspersen Falla

Ragnhild Haga

Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen

Heidi Weng

Ingvild Flugstad Østberg

 

Hans Christer Holund

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo

Simen Hegstad Krüger

Martin Johnsrud Sundby

 

Sweden has a decent selection already as well:

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Calle Halfvarsson

Daniel Rickardsson

Teodor Peterson

Marcus Hellner

 

Hanna Falk

Ida Ingemarsdotter

Ebba Andersson

Charlotte Kalla

Stina Nilsson

 

And Finland has five names in their team so far:

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Ristomatti Hakola
Matti Heikkinen
Iivo Niskanen

Kerttu Niskanen
Krista Pärmäkoski

 

[Bearas 628]

 Lithuanian team has been confirmed:

• Modestas Vaičiulis
• Mantas Strolia
• Marija Kaznačenko

[Jur 700]

 Spain is going to reject the women's quota.  And probably the second men's quota too.

[dcro 10,211]

1 hour ago, Jur said:

 Spain is going to reject the women's quota.  And probably the second men's quota too.

 

How are they going to decide about the second men's quota? Some internal standards?

[dcro 10,211]

Spain declines women's spot. Germany declines two of the additional places.

 

Reallocations provisionally go to

[phelps 8,757]

Italy will have 15 CC skiers between women and men in Pyeongchang...

 

at the moment only 3 male skiers have been already named:

Francesco De Fabiani, Dietmar Noeckler, Federico Pellegrino

 

the remaining 12 spots are still up for grabs...

[dcro 10,211]

declines. We lose a participating nation.