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And in speed skating?

To be fair, Johaug's only real goal is the 50k, today was still too short for her I guess

Not really working, cross-country has that in order a lot better than alpine skiing Nowadays if you're able to get 300 FIS points, you're certainly able to ski a decent race at least. The athletes you might see at world championships, where some of them might be in one of their first ever races on snow and they are still learning basic technique, definitely won't be able to get 300 points or better.

They're based on four things: 1. A factor (800 for interval starts, 1200 for sprint qualifying, 1400 for mass starts/skiathlons) 2. The winner's time 3. The time of athlete X (the one you want to calculate the points for) 4. The current FIS points of the athletes in the top-5 of the race I know there are two formulas FIS uses, which obviously result in the same points total, but I don't have them in mind

Not 300 points....233 points https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=47716 Excellent start of the season! Live timing wasn't ideal, some transponders issues here and there, so while she should have crossed the line first (started 2nd), I didn't see her in the finish list even after 8-9 women finished...luckily then she called and when I asked if she finished, she said she did, so no problems and it was indeed just some transponder issue Tomorrow it's the 10k classic, first time she does 10k races back-to-back, let's see how that goes Less pressure though, since that one won't count for the Brazilian Olympic ranking, only classic sprint and freestyle distance races count for that.

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

Sarcastically of course, cheering for the fact she basically received no punishment Tennis and football are jokes in terms of combatting doping.

Excited as always My main thought was "alright, only 18 countries in the women's race and apparently no wildcards for anyone, that's decent news"

Cheer for getting away with it?

Unfortunate, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm looking forward to Thursday evening, when the team captain's meeting is over and we have our very first World Cup start list of the season. Always a cool moment to see who's there and everything

Today I unpacked some of the boxes in which we have put my way too many books to move to our house, and I came across these beauty's I hadn't seen for a while Absolutely recommended, tough to get for a decent price, but they are such an interesting read with lots of very interesting little stories! Still looking for at least 1900, 1904 and 1906, but not really in the right moment to spend money on that now, so the wait goes on

Which I guess is part of why unfortunately 'our' first wild card attempt of the season was rejected last week

December is probably going to be focused on either Italy/Austria or Norway, but the plans are still being made as we speak. Renting a car, driving from the Netherlands down to Italy, finding accomodations and help with preparing the skis and all that...trying to make it as an independent 'solo' athlete is...hard I can't go and help out, because we got the keys to our house (finally) and there's lots of work to be done there, so it's all happening at the same time and the mind is getting crazy (for both of us)

Any idea where a full schedule can be found yet? I remember last seasons the website was always godawful in terms of providing that basic kind of information..