Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[OlympicsFan 783]

Easily the most surprising medal for Germany. Huge respect for the german coach. He knew that their only medal chances would be the relays and they probably focused on those events in training. Too bad that the women's 30 km race will be in freestyle, otherwise Hennig might have won another medal.

[Herki 64]

Really happy for the German gold, always have rooted for their skiers, glad to see this resurrection from them.

[dcro 10,182]

Yay, we get the much-desired Top 20 result. Best ever in cross-country. Also our first participation in any team event at the Winter Olympics since Torino.

 

Very pleased for Maeki. Perfect strategy with Niskanen pushing the pace and Joni saving his effort for the key leg.

[Grassmarket 2,760]

1 hour ago, Herki said:

Really happy for the German gold, always have rooted for their skiers, glad to see this resurrection from them.

Hopefully it’s good for the sport. Public Interest definitely dropped away Europe-wide this last decade.

[dcro 10,182]

The only previous team participation from Torino was in the men's team sprint, when the guys placed 22nd in the final analysis (24 teams were entered).

 

Interestingly, Belarus did not start that day too. Are they boycotting WOG team events with Croatia?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country_skiing_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics_–_Men's_team_sprint

[FancyFenchel 106]

On 2/16/2022 at 8:13 AM, Monzanator said:

Despite public catfighting with Monika Skinder, Izabela Marcisz has agreed to take part in the Team Sprint. How generous!

https://sport.interia.pl/raporty/raport-pekin-2022/polacy/news-po-interwencji-apoloniusza-tajnera-polki-pobiegna-w-sprincie,nId,5826804

 

Tajner - the boss of Polish Ski Federation - had talked to Marcisz 40 minutes long and conviced her to start. Knowing how authoritarian Polish Federations are, I do not want to know any details of it.

 

9th place so close to TOP8, but probably no extra money for them. 

[Swewi 300]

Frida Karlsson is not selected to go the 30km. Instead the swedish four will be Andersson, Kalla, Ribom and it will be interesting to see Sundling in a distance race!

[JonPhi 246]

15 minutes ago, Swewi said:

Frida Karlsson is not selected to go the 30km. Instead the swedish four will be Andersson, Kalla, Ribom and it will be interesting to see Sundling in a distance race!

Nilsson won bronze 2018 over 30K, so it is a possibility 

[JonPhi 246]

Men Mass Start

https://results.beijing2022.cn/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/CCS/OWG2022_CCS_C51E_CCSM50KMMS------------FNL-000100--.pdf

[OlympicsFan 783]

Pretty crazy that the 3 same nations won the medals in all women's biathlon/cross-country team events and that Norway wasn't one of those nations:

Cross-country skiing relay: Russia - Germany - Sweden

Cross-country skiing team sprint: Germany - Sweden - Russia

Biathlon relay: Sweden - Russia - Germany

 

All those nations have the exact same medal tally. Who would have thought that Germany would win 3 more medals than Norway in those events?

 

Edit: Also pretty surprising that 3 female cross-country skiers (Sundling, Dahlqvist, Nepryayeva) will end the games with at least as many medals as Johaug. If Johaug doesn't win a medal in her last race (unlikely), she will end the olympics with the same number of medals as Victoria Carl and Katharina Hennig.