Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[heywoodu 16,142]

26 minutes ago, FancyFenchel said:

You can see heat selection in live stream.

 

It's weird because they change the rules TOP10 from 10th to 1st and than 11th to 30th...

11th to 30th normal, but giving the winner the chance to really make a choice instead of just picking a random empty one? Would be fair to the winner..

[hckošice 15,811]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I had no idea, but damn, 2009  That was definitely before I paid this much attention  

Oh yeah, 2009/10 that was when she had not started practicing walking on skis yet. That was great times indeed

[justony 475]

Janez Lampič was slower than best women. His sister Anamarija chose the right group, she can advance by time in semifinal, after that all is possible.

 

So sad for Eva Urevc, but she is closed most of the time in her room, it will be really hard for our girls in Team Sprint. Others performed as expected, although I was hoping for at least Šimenc in top 30.

[Grassmarket 4,103]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

11th to 30th normal, but giving the winner the chance to really make a choice instead of just picking a random empty one? Would be fair to the winner..

No, it is completely open.  There’s a big screen, athletes are called up one by one & choose their own place by hitting a big red button.  It has been on TV sometimes.

[heywoodu 16,142]

3 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

No, it is completely open.  There’s a big screen, athletes are called up one by one & choose their own place by hitting a big red button.  It has been on TV sometimes.

Yes, I usually watch it, but I got confused because of the mentioned of different rules  

[heywoodu 16,142]

And any word on Bolshunov doing the other races or not? He withdrew from the sprint because of all the doping questions (ugh), but one can imagine he's not suddenly not angry about that anymore in a few days..

[FireRun 197]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

And any word on Bolshunov doing the other races or not? He withdrew from the sprint because of all the doping questions (ugh), but one can imagine he's not suddenly not angry about that anymore in a few days..

He withdrew because he can't win the gold medal here. He want to conserve energy for other races. 

[NearPup 3,615]

Cross country sprint heat selection gives me some serious StarCraft nostalgia. In big leagues they usually got players to select their own groups (basically you had one seeded player per group, they each picked one player to be in their group, then these players picked one player, and so on until all groups were full). They always made a big show of it with trashtalking and whatnot. Some leagues had elaborate entrances for the players too.

 

Kind of wild seeing a "real" sport come up with a similar group selection format.

[Federer91 3,080]

That Brennan start  She put the gas afterwards though

[Quaker2001 288]

Great job by Rosie to climb back up into the race.  She might pay for that later on, but she's on to the semis