Good start to the season for @brunamoura, 375 FIS points in a mildly strong sprint field in Italy yesterday. Started well in the quarters, but fell because of someone in front of her hitting something that bounced back on the course. That's alright though, qualifying is what matters in the sprint and that went well for a first snow race in almost 2 years
https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=47710
10k today, starting a little after 10am. Getting under 300 points or so would be a nice way to start the road.
It's generally just called the skiathlon, so having a 'X km and X km' in the title is a bit confusing. The point is that the race is cut into two halves, one is done in the classic technique, the other in the freestyle (skating technique), so in this case it's a 20km race
Some early thoughts:
Kaylia Nemour
Ariarne Titmus
Rebeca Andrade
Karlos Nasar
Summer McIntosh
Pan Zhanle
Valent Sinkovic / Martin Sinkovic
Leon Marchand
Lukas Maertens
Keely Hodgkinson
Militiadis Tentoglou
Adriana Ruano
Kristof Milak
Veddriq Leonardo
Rhys McClenaghan
Thomas Ceccon
Mykolas Alekna
Sifan Hassan
Lisa Carrington
Natalia Kaczmarek (Bukowiecka)
David Popovici
Novak Djokovic
Tadej Pogacar
Carlos Alcaraz
Sarah Sjoestroem
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Cole Hocker
TBC...
ok, no need to do that, RB has done it before...
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/athletes?filter.disciplineId=rrn:content:collections:dba6b65d-f4ee-4c56-ba2c-556c140f2283,rrn:content:collections:e515fd5c-44c2-4f7a-acad-d637982738f1,rrn:content:collections:6c30a975-7ddd-4e2b-9aab-f0d743c47972,rrn:content:collections:69f49c5f-13fd-4e27-b31b-266c375beb22,rrn:content:collections:4264ed75-3040-488c-b907-6709b3c06ad9
still - it's interesting if they chose the athletes well, if their "stars" will get many medals in 2026... because they will surely get a lot of media attention...