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Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022


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All credits to Niskanen, he will be strong in the Team sprint

 

Classic

Iivo Niskanen (FIN) 28:53,9

William Pooroma (SWE) 29:30,4

Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) 29:32,0

Hugo Lapalus (FRA) 29:51,5

Paal Golberg (NOR) 29:57,1

 

 

Freestyle

Clement Parisse (FRA) 27:02,1

Hans Christer Holund (NOR) 27:08,0

Jens Burman (SWE) 27:08,3

Denis Spitsov (RUS) 27:22,6

Sergey Ustjugov (RUS) 27:41,4

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1 minute ago, JonPhi said:

All credits to Niskanen, he will be strong in the Team sprint

The trouble will be finding his team mate. Maeki? Hakola seems to suffer from the altitude, that would be my conclusion at least.

 

Their women should have better chance at gold. That is, if they don't enter Kylloenen and Matintalo! :mirror:

#banbestmen

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1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

Another brilliant relay from Russia :clap: They are starting their push for the third place in the table, but will need some wins in biathlon.

 

Norway losing both relays will bring questions back home, and while the women's one was to be expected, today's blowout won't be received well.

Norway will simply say it was stolen by the Russians. Norwegian Tv is very hostile to Russia being at the games 

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5 minutes ago, dcro said:

The trouble will be finding his team mate. Maeki? Hakola seems to suffer from the altitude, that would be my conclusion at least.

 

Their women should have better chance at gold. That is, if they don't enter Kylloenen and Matintalo! :mirror:

Niskanen/Paramakoski is fix. I think it will be mäki, he was fourth in the individual sprint. 
I think from the Russian team we will see Stupak/Nepreyeva and Bolshunov/Terentev

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13 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Norway will simply say it was stolen by the Russians. Norwegian Tv is very hostile to Russia being at the games 

Obviously Russia is dirty, but if you are dirty yourself, you shouldn't complain about others beating you at your own game. Of course Russia will always have an advantage at this game. If your economy is complete trash, it will always be easier to find people who are desperate enough to do anything.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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In all honesty, there is some truism in what our British friend is saying. :p

 

TV ratings do matter. NBC ratings are reportedly only at half compared to Pyeongchang. Cases like Valieva are now becoming key. If someone who tested positive a month ago is allowed to start as if nothing happened, then the IOC is risking to have the Olympics become progressively more irrelevant (like the Oscars, for the mainstream audience).

#banbestmen

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6 minutes ago, dcro said:

In all honesty, there is some truism in what our British friend is saying. :p

 

TV ratings do matter. NBC ratings are reportedly only at half compared to Pyeongchang. Cases like Valieva are now becoming key. If someone who tested positive a month ago is allowed to start as if nothing happened, then the IOC is risking to have the Olympics become progressively more irrelevant (like the Oscars, for the mainstream audience).

I think doping is the smallest of IOC's issues.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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NBC ratings are down every single year for all of their programming for 8 years now. It's the evolution of US viewing habits. It's not like 12 years ago, when you had to wait for 8 pm coverage to see anything. People are watching what they'd want on twitter for Gods sake. Who's wanting to bother with 3 hours of primetime coverage, 1 hour of which is ads, 1 hour has fluff pieces and the last hour has cherry picked events. Their main target is getting people subscribed to Peacock and stay subscribed for their other stuff.

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