heywoodu 13,751 Posted February 19, 2022 #841 Share Posted February 19, 2022 1 minute ago, Pifta said: Why was 50k shortened and delayed? Wind has big effect in biathlon, but not in cross country skiing It does when it's already that cold. Keep them going for 2 hours and it's just asking for people to drop down out of the blue. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonPhi 247 Posted February 19, 2022 #842 Share Posted February 19, 2022 10 minutes ago, Pifta said: Why was 50k shortened and delayed? Wind has big effect in biathlon, but not in cross country skiing The feeling temperature is -25 and there is it a lot of wind and the course is already very brutal. At a 50k many athletes would not see the finish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,196 Posted February 19, 2022 #843 Share Posted February 19, 2022 They simply can't have a 50k race today if they have to start with a one hour delay. The race would be much longer than usual due to the conditions, so if you add the one hour delay, the race would finish well beyond anything we have seen for long distance cross-country events at these Games, especially for the weaker athletes, who might as well DNF already just to save the energy. heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 180 Posted February 19, 2022 #844 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Couldn’t they move it to tomorrow at say 11am Bejing time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pifta 41 Posted February 19, 2022 #845 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Just now, Orangehair43 said: Couldn’t they move it to tomorrow at say 11am Bejing time? they said skiers and organizers want to leave Beijing this evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,359 Posted February 19, 2022 #846 Share Posted February 19, 2022 5 minutes ago, Pifta said: they said skiers and organizers want to leave Beijing this evening That was also a problem with the alpine skiing team event - they considered cancelling it today because many skiers have flights booked for Sunday morning, and all the Monday flights are apparently booked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonPhi 247 Posted February 19, 2022 #847 Share Posted February 19, 2022 I don't understand all the excitement here. The temperatures are at the absolute limit with -17/-18 degrees, plus winds over 10 m/s, which make the whole thing significantly colder again towards -25. Then we already have brutally difficult courses and an altitude of 1800 meters. It is also about the health of the athletes, one will have little interest in that as in the biathlon at these temperatures here athletes collapse on the track or half does not come to the finish. And postpone the race until tomorrow? Due to the Alpine postponement runs tomorrow morning already some parallel, so already times not in the interest of the TV stations. And do you know how cold it is there at 10 o'clock local time when the sun has just come out? Even colder! And the wind is supposed to be even stronger tomorrow than today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pifta 41 Posted February 19, 2022 #848 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Why do skiiers leave Beijing on saturday evening/sunday morning? The closing ceremony is on sunday evening, they should be there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 180 Posted February 19, 2022 #849 Share Posted February 19, 2022 The Eurosport commentators are fuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 180 Posted February 19, 2022 #850 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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