Cross-Country Skiing FIS Tour de Ski 2017 - 2018

[hckošice 15,121]

Cross-Country Skiing FIS Tour de Ski 2017 - 2018

 

Multi-Stage Event - 30 December 2017 - 7 January 2018

 

 

Totallympics Results Thread

[heywoodu 15,353]

And the schedule (it's only in German, but it's easy, Freistil = freestyle, klassisch = classic, Verfolgung = pursuit, bzw. = first the men's distance, then the women's distance)

 

[heywoodu 15,353]

Sweden is going without Kalla and Nilsson:

 

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Jens Burman
Gustav Eriksson
Calle Halfvarsson
Marcus Hellner
Emil Jönsson
Daniel Rickardsson
Oskar Svensson

Anna Haag
Maria Nordström
Evelina Settlin
Linn Sömskar
Emma Wikén
Jennie Öberg

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The first three men on Finland's list are going home after the Oberstdorf sprint, biathlete Laukkanen will only do the Lenzerheide sprint.

 

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Ristomatti Hakola
Martti Jylhä

Iivo Niskanen
Kusti Kittilä
Ari Luusua
Antti Ojansivu

Anne Kyllönen
Mari Laukkanen
Laura Mononen
Kerttu Niskanen
Krista Pärmäkoski
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen

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[Quasit 865]

  On 12/21/2017 at 9:56 AM, heywoodu said:

The first three men on Finland's list are going home after the Oberstdorf sprint, biathlete Laukkanen will only do the Lenzerheide sprint.

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Why bother only finishing half the stages?

Edited December 21, 2017 by Quasit

[Agger 1,664]

  On 12/21/2017 at 11:57 AM, Quasit said:

Why bother only finishing half the stages?

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Training

[dcro 10,210]

And Olympic qualification. It's feasible that Laukkanen might be a part of the Finnish team sprint relay, so she'll need two more sprints to qualify.

[heywoodu 15,353]

Exactly. Plus there's no biathlon in that time anyway, why not get some more competitive rhythm. Besides, Laukkanen has already proven more than once she's very much capable of being a serious World Cup-level cross-country skier in the sprint.

Edited December 21, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,353]

The Tour has started, no surprises in the women's sprint qualifying. The only notable things are Randall not making it (but then again, she's not that great like she was a few years back) and Lampic ending somewhere in the back. 

[heywoodu 15,353]

Sundby doesn't make the cut. Slightly surprising, since he's shown more than once that he is very capable of even finishing top-10 in these things, but then again, it's the Olympic season, I doubt the Tour de Ski is where he wants to be in his best shape.

[Werloc 3,176]

Selina Gasparin is in too