Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[hckošice 16,640]

Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

 

PyeongChang (KOR) - 10 February 2018 - 25 February 2018

 

 

Totallympics Results Thread

[heywoodu 16,468]

Schedule

 

 

50km classic, the king of all XC events 

[dcro 10,211]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

50km classic, the king of all XC events 

 

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

[heywoodu 16,468]

52 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

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

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.

 

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[intoronto 6,936]

27 minutes ago, 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.

 

! 

All in the name of gender equality. 

[dcro 10,211]

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.

 

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

All in the name of gender equality. 

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

[heywoodu 16,468]

55 minutes ago, 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...

 

 

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 

[dcro 10,211]

3 minutes ago, 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 

 

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

Edited November 2, 2017 by dcro

[Agger 1,843]

58 minutes ago, 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...

 

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.