Cross-Country Skiing 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[Swewi 460]

On 11/19/2021 at 7:24 PM, Federer91 said:

You are related to Jonna Sundling?  Please do tell, if it's not a secret 

Third cousin, never met her

[heywoodu 16,000]

Is anyone able to find the apparent change that has been made, due to COVID-19, about the FIS points system? Apparently it's no longer about the best five results in the past 12 months, but the past 24 months, which has quite significant impacts in certain situations.

[heywoodu 16,000]

Ugh, the organizers in Santa Caterina have suddenly changed Sunday's race from distance classic (as it was all the time and at least until yesterday) to distance freestyle, now it won't count in the internal ranking for the Brazilians and so only Saturday's sprint will count for them 

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/event-details.html?sectorcode=CC&eventid=49897&seasoncode=2022

 

Oh well, all-out in tomorrow's freestyle sprint  

[heywoodu 16,000]

For those interested, the start lists for the sprint qualifying in Santa Caterina can be found under the big blue button here:

https://sciclubaltavaltellina.it/download/ordine-di-partenza-sprint/

 

A whole lot of participants, as expected led by the strong B-teams from France, Italy and Austria. @brunamoura starts at 10:02, with Jaque Mourão and Mika Picin in the minutes right behind her and Duda Ribera being in the junior race.

 

As for the Brazilian men: it's Manex Silva in the juniors and Steve Hiestand in the seniors. That's of course a free advantage for Manex, but to be fair, he is quite likely the strongest of all Brazilian men anyway.

 

Interesting that there's six Brazilians competing, and only one of them can really be seen as 100% Brazilian by now in terms of background/residence and such  

 

 Jaque

 Mika

 Manex

 Steve

 Bruna

 

 

[heywoodu 16,000]

 

Duda had 4:11 in the junior race, slightly behind Mika's time. If I am not mistaken, Duda ends up with 316.81 points and Mika with 345.57 due to being in the senior race (despite being a tad faster). Bruna should get a decent 279.14 and Jaque should end up with an excellent 186.67 points. Again, if I'm not mistaken.

 

Which would make me say Jaque is the winner of the day in the internal Brazilian battle, but Bruna takes an excellent second spot for now.

[heywoodu 16,000]

My point calculcations were wrong, I calculated the race penalty but forgot to add those  These are correct:

 

Jaque 239.18
Bruna 331.65
Mika 394.37
Duda 481.84

 

Steve 265.05
Manex 319.57

 

 

15km/10km today, just saw Maurice Manificat win the men's race. He finished in a little over 40 minutes, which is roughly five minutes slower than at the terrible track at the world championships last season...comes to show how godawful the conditions are, combined with an absolutely terrible job by the organizers in terms of preparing the courses  

 

Anyhow, only a training race for Bruna today, so there's no pressure or need to perform or anything. Perfect opportunity to work on technique and such.

[heywoodu 16,000]

Stream for tomorrow's race with the Brazilians  (no idea what to expect, but it's something at least)

 

 

Start lists can be found here:

https://docdro.id/Y6dxREO

[heywoodu 16,000]

Aaaaand we're live! First up, for Brazil at least, is Duda in the junior race!

[heywoodu 16,000]

Duda will end up 4:54 behind the winner, unless Julie Pierrel increases her pace and beats the fastest time, but it's not looking like it so far. Pretty good result for Duda, it's not possible to say exactly yet (as we don't know the full top-5 yet) but it looks like roughly 300 FIS points for her.

[heywoodu 16,000]

Wow, the wonderfully named Germana Thannheimer put down a burner of a final climb and went from 23 seconds down with 800m to go to only 2,3 seconds down at the finish