Cross-Country Skiing 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

These points show the situation fairly clearly. Bruna needs a distance race to improve her points, Duda needs one or two sprints to really make a change.

 

And you're really not going to get a 'team coach' favouring one athlete over the other any more obviously than the Brazilian one at this very moment. Take these two events:

 

Slavic Cup Zakopane, 11 and 12 January (sprint and distance)

Balkan Cup Zlatibor, 12 and 13 January (distance and sprint)

 

They are now actually planning to go to both of these events.....and only do the sprints! "But I need a distance race" is literally being answered with "but she needs sprints, so we're doing sprints"  

 

It really can't get any more blatantly obvious. Both Zakopane and Zlatibor aren't entirely sure of actually happening yet neither, so deciding where to go on your own is a hard dilemma to say the least....(since you simply can't trust going with the team, they/the 'coach' are not above actively sabotaging you)

 

Working your ass off for four years and in the end it's going to come down to incredibly dirty games being played by someone who is supposed to be there for the entire team. It is truly beyond infuriating.

Can't you choose your own races (like Mirlene Picin apparently does)?

[ahjfcshfghb 296]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

These points show the situation fairly clearly. Bruna needs a distance race to improve her points, Duda needs one or two sprints to really make a change.

 

And you're really not going to get a 'team coach' favouring one athlete over the other any more obviously than the Brazilian one at this very moment. Take these two events:

 

Slavic Cup Zakopane, 11 and 12 January (sprint and distance)

Balkan Cup Zlatibor, 12 and 13 January (distance and sprint)

 

They are now actually planning to go to both of these events.....and only do the sprints! "But I need a distance race" is literally being answered with "but she needs sprints, so we're doing sprints"  

 

It really can't get any more blatantly obvious. Both Zakopane and Zlatibor aren't entirely sure of actually happening yet neither, so deciding where to go on your own is a hard dilemma to say the least....(since you simply can't trust going with the team, they/the 'coach' are not above actively sabotaging you)

 

Working your ass off for four years and in the end it's going to come down to incredibly dirty games being played by someone who is supposed to be there for the entire team. It is truly beyond infuriating.

Can you stay in Zakopane for the distance race? Or if Zakopane is cancelled, will the team do distance in Zlatibor?

[heywoodu 16,434]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Can't you choose your own races (like Mirlene Picin apparently does)?

That's the plan, for now: going to Serbia alone. If the races are actually happening. The 'will they/won't they?' situation about the races being held is one of the main issues as well.

[heywoodu 16,434]

2 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Can you stay in Zakopane for the distance race? Or if Zakopane is cancelled, will the team do distance in Zlatibor?

I have a table with all these races and a predicted point value for all athletes in those races, so I will run some calculation on what the points standings are in case of scenario X, Y and Z  

[dcro 10,210]

Meanwhile, it started snowing in Ravna Gora today.

 

If there is enough snow, and there should be according to the current forecast, I am quite sure the races will be held. Our team needs their prep run for the Olympics.

[heywoodu 16,434]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Meanwhile, it started snowing in Ravna Gora today.

 

If there is enough snow, and there should be according to the current forecast, I am quite sure the races will be held. Our team needs their prep run for the Olympics.

A big question in that case is: will it still be part of the Balkan Cup (same for Serbia)? If not, it won't count for the Brazilians anymore and there is no use in going there. If it does, it would be excellent to go there.

 

Please do keep us updated if you hear any kind of news or see any kind of weather stuff or something from that area...

[heywoodu 16,434]

@Monzanator Do you happen to have any idea about the situation in Zakopane in terms of snow and such? I've sent an email to the organizers of the Slavic Cup races there as well, but maybe you've heard something  

 

Some webcams seem to show some snow on the ski jump hill only and nothing else, but it's hard to say about the cross-country tracks.

[Monzanator 5,075]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

@Monzanator Do you happen to have any idea about the situation in Zakopane in terms of snow and such? I've sent an email to the organizers of the Slavic Cup races there as well, but maybe you've heard something  

 

Some webcams seem to show some snow on the ski jump hill only and nothing else, but it's hard to say about the cross-country tracks.

 

The ski jumping FIS Cup in Zakopane scheduled for the upcoming weekend has been cancelled due to warm weather. There is more rain than snow in Poland right now. I'm pretty sure the ski jumping World Cup will use artificial snow.

[heywoodu 16,434]

1 minute ago, Monzanator said:

 

The ski jumping FIS Cup in Zakopane scheduled for the upcoming weekend has been cancelled due to warm weather. There is more rain than snow in Poland right now. I'm pretty sure the ski jumping World Cup will use artificial snow.

Hmm, sounds like it might be a stretch for local organizers to have enough artificial snow for both some Slavic Cup XC races and the way more important ski jumping World Cup...

 

It's on 11 and 12 January, so there is some time left, but that doesn't sound very hopeful for those races.

[heywoodu 16,434]

Beyrami of Iran has made some huge improvements during the off-season  

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=179196&type=result

 

She was flying in Turkey lately, with competition who used to be significantly better only last season. Impressive.