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Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018


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  On 11/3/2017 at 2:54 PM, Pifta said:

But WHY?

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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 :dunno:  Also there only 1 team sprint scheduled throughout the whole season

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  On 11/3/2017 at 2:57 PM, dcro said:

 

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

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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. 

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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).

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  • 1 month later...

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

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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

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And Finland has five names in their team so far:

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Ristomatti Hakola
Matti Heikkinen
Iivo Niskanen

Kerttu Niskanen
Krista Pärmäkoski

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  On 1/9/2018 at 4:18 PM, Jur said:

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

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

#banbestmen

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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...

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