Monzanator

7 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

No, not really ...

- Heat

- Attendance

- Some athletes not competing/peaking because of the olympics only a couple months later

The Indoor season suffers in general for quite some time because all the money is in Diamond League anyway. Several athletes find zero interest in winter competition but IAAF tries to do something about it hence the introduction of World Indoor Tour. Another mistake was adding the extra outdoor EC in the Olympic season which makes zero sense whatsoever. Not to mention some 100/400 speciallists hate running indoors and rarely do it. Adam Kszczot probaby would have won his 4th indoor title but said he needs the first winter off in almost 10 years to focus on Tokyo

1 minute ago, Col_Frost said:

I agree with you that Takanashi is not the best jumper ever. It's simple, IOC and WCh are most important, World Cups are only some competition between them. But in the other hand. Come on, it's only one jump you talking about. The fact that Stoch didn't advance to final round in Zakopane this year doesn't mean that he is not one of the best Polish jumper ever only because he lost that day with Wasek, Wolny or Kot  

And this poor Takanashi jump basically cost Japan the bronze IMO. They only lost 9.8 pts to Norway in the end. Another choke job on the global stage for her. I'm out of excuses

6th place for which is a huge result considering our women's jumping is openly ignored by our Federation since like forever. We're years behind the best despite having a good potential on the men's side. We should be sending girls to these champs pretty much since 2013 and this was the first time. Can't stand this idiot Tajner who runs our Fed. He cares more about his 20+ years younger mistresses than female ski jumpers.

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

You have a serious problem ...

1) Why can't you let it go?

2) Why can't you accept facts?

3) What's wrong with your logical reasoning skills? One result > All other career results?

When you're the "best ever" you should be expected to slaughter some 17 yo juniors from Poland who have never been to World Champs before IMO.

"The best ever" Takanashi 0.5m shorter than both girls!

Kubacki 112.0 hill record The Fluke Man strikes back!

Team mixed NH about to start. has this in the bag?

is eyeing an 8th place finish and the government funding that comes with it (more important for the girls tbh). I believe 5th is our best place available if the girls perform at their top level. But I expect 6th-7th.

I'll let our German expert bitch about the finish!

gets 8th (best WCh team finish ever) and secures the government funding which was the main goal!

Let's face it, nordic combined is probably the least followed event of the entire FIS World Cup series. It's like luge on skis for Germany so obviously every German pretends to be an expert. There is no discussion available because Netherlands & Poland play zero part in any success in this event (but we're at our best since the early 90s right now thanks to a bunch of ex-ski jumpers who instead of quitting the sport actually switched over to NC). So I speak my mind and I don't follow any majority because I don't read any NC press and there's like ZERO TV coverage for nordic combined in Poland. TVP Sport doesn't even broadcast the NC events here, they have a lenghty ski jumping studio instead However I see that Gruber is still the best skier Austria has and that's enough for me not to call his performances random also given his past success. If Kircheisen did the same you'd be praising the old fox but Gruber? And I don't even care about the usua Germany vs Austria cc beef which probably explains why you dislike Gruber so much

Is it closer from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow or maybe Tokyo?

Siberia in March?   Not my primary choice for anything!

Swoboda with the fastest time in the 60m heats but she can always get tight when it matters the most.

Karolina Koleczek flops in the 60m H heats to join Iga Baumgart-Witan's shocker yesterday

Gruber has build a huge gap on the first relay leg... probably another completely random performance

I believe Vasaloppet takes the early morning slot tomorrow (8 am CET)

18 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

 

What about tomorrow and two and a half hours of racing? 

Not watching   50k mass start is pure evil

I literally watched 5 mins of this race. No need to waste time on another Norway 1-2

KJT 4983 pts for gold. Probably needed like 5 cm in LJ to crack 5000.

If there was an Austrian in Top 5 after 1st round I think they would have delayed the event and tried to clean the tracks like they did before Johansson's jump in the first round. But there was no point in helping Geiger & Peier   And Kraft protected his bronze medal too.

1 minute ago, dcro said:

So I predicted a silver for Stoch.

Me too

The fact remains Polish journalists were ready to crucify FIS, Hifer & Sedlak after the 1st round and now they won't eat a single crow most likely. Stefan Hula said the event should have been cancelled but it's our last hurrah anyway. In 2021 we'll be two years older and even wind & snow won't help us again.

1-2. Fuck everyone!!!   Most luck we've had since 1972

On 24/02/2019 at 12:59, dcro said:

Big flag.

 

Can you also spot a big truck and a big tree?

 

It's in the Guinness Record Book?

https://gulfnews.com/going-out/society/sharjah-raises-worlds-largest-flag-1.2119329

Makes you wonder why? Zuzulova was never that popular despite having a similar potential for success only wrecked by injuries? Maybe you shoud change your avatar now?

Ciric with bleached blonde hair looks much worse than in the picture above

Two DQ in men's 1500m heats including Filip Ingebrigtsen.

24 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

This could get ugly fast. If they only were tipped off about the cc skiers and suddenly found the Tutenkhamon's tomb instead?

Takanashi could end up like Daniela Bartova & Emma George, reduced into oblivion by history moving forward. Just wait until women begin to jump on the big & mammoth hills. Takanashi is like the dead-ball era in baseball or pre-Open era in tennis, or pre-shot clock in NBA.