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Probably not, considering she didn't prepare for the 5k at all after her disappointing result at the Dutch championships

The way he prepares the sprint makes me genuinely surprised Hoolwerf has the mental capacity to tie his shoe laces

Oh wow, that was total collapse by Wiklund

What the actual fuck, Joep Wennemars is the 1000m world champion Also really cool to see the images of him jumping in the arms of coach Jac Orie, who also coached his dad Erben Wennemars to a world title. Erben, who for years already is present as expert for the NOS so obviously he was here as well and he was even way more emotional

I don't really know, my favourite in the longer distances is Conijn because she's always the most enthusiastic and excited one (and she seems nice, her first reaction to hearing she beat Wiklund for bronze by 0,01 seconds was "aw that's a bummer for Ragne" in a way that definitely sounded like she meant it)

Be lucky you probably don't get to watch the Dutch championships, it was significantly worse there than it has been here so far

Finally! That was definitely something we saw coming this entire season, question was if he'd do it at a World Cup or when it really mattered and turns out it was the latter, perfect timing, even after a false start

Anyhow, great fight in the women's 3k, that was tight! Super happy with bronze for Conijn, although she was kind of bummed out for Wiklund missing out on it by 0.01 seconds And Eitrem vs Snellink in the 5k was fantastic

Did they get one of them generic English Eurosport commentators? "Now they're rrrrreally pushing!"

I dare say also doesn't cheat in ski jumping

So far we've got Egypt: https://www.thestatesman.com/sports/egypt-eyes-historic-olympic-bid-for-2036-and-2040-1503330822.html Possibly Madrid: https://gamesbids.com/eng/winter-olympic-bids/future-winter-bids/spain-abandons-madrid-2036-olympic-bid-to-focus-on-possible-pyrenees-barcelona-2030-winter-games/ And Poland: https://www.barrons.com/news/poland-to-bid-for-summer-olympics-in-2040-or-2044-a9704528 Maybe Germany: https://www.barrons.com/news/germany-to-bid-for-2040-summer-olympics-424aadf2

It would be nice to think of a way to do this that makes hosting it a bit easier. I mean, as a participant it is definitely lots of fun, but it is truly insane how much time hosting it can cost, even with the always massive amounts of help you get from people like @OlympicIRL.

That's just a matter of etiquette, basically, whereas this is willfully going against the rules.

Since it's already a week later, I think it's safe to assume @Wanderer and @Belle are both not interested in organizing the contest (to be clear: no judgement, anyone can be busy, just not have the time or motivation to do so or any other reason, no worries)?

This is definitely something that should be looked at. Doping enhances your performance, so does messing with equipment. Like in cross-country skiing: if your skis are positive for fluor, you get a DQ for that competition, but that's it (or you can even have them tested before the race and have no punishment at all, like two of the Brazilians in the Trondheim world championships having their skis test positive, likely due to using fluor in a race in January where it was announced there would not be a fluor test). If your urine tests positive for EPO, the problem is significantly bigger.

Both massive state-sponsored doping and the whole war thing are a bit of a different situation than this Norway ski jumping case, to be fair. I'm going to assume the Norwegian prime minister or king wasn't involved in these decisions.

Yes, ok, but what are the exact things Austria is supposed to be cheating with? We know what the Norwegians did, including video evidence, so what about the Austrians other than "but they do it too!"?

What is the exact thing Austria is supposed to be cheating with? We know what the Norwegians did (including video evidence).

Hello @Dragon and your knowledge of insanely obscure yet cool Olympic facts

Coincidentally today I overheard Kevin Bolger talk with someone about it, they were all pretty disappointed at seeing the tiny start list today and felt they should speak with the athletes about whether or not they actually wanted a 50k. I also heard him talk about the insane noise around the track yesterday, he said it felt like his ears were popping constantly and that Maja Dahlqvist's first words to him this morning were "I'm scared"

Miserable championships for Diggins by the way, damn. She was walking and running around super pumped before the 50k, then was dropped immediately and had no chance to ever get anywhere near a decent result. Kept going, dropped back further and made a bit of a show to thank people at the finish, but simply collapsed into tears after the finish. Not even anywhere near the individual medals in the entirety of Trondheim 2025. Awesome to see Sophia Velicer finish today and avoid being lapped, my throat is still sore from yelling "Let's go Sophia!" at the top of my lungs every single time she passed by

The three remaining World Cups: Oslo next week (20k interval classic + 10k interval freestyle), Tallinn a few days later (freestyle sprint) and the weekend after that the finals in Lahti (freestyle individual + team sprint and a 50k classic). At least in the women's standings Lithuania should definitely be safe inside the top-30 and therefore with a second spot at the Olympics. Realistically only Armenia might pass them and that depends entirely on whether or not Katya Galstyan will do those World Cups. Lithuanian men are 30th right now, but in the men's field I'm significantly less informed and don't really dare say if there's any danger from behind.

Only 35 women in tomorrow's 50k Including both Hungarian women, who very much have assured themselves of an Olympic spot for both, and with this amount of participants might even have a 3rd ticket on the way for someone.

Yeah, atmosphere at Granåsen has been absolutely amazing since day 1. They have done a truly terrible job with the snow conditions (Oberstdorf 2021 had tougher conditions but they managed to keep the tracks relatively good for the race days, where in Trondheim it was godawful), but the atmosphere is the one thing that was really through the roof, goosebumps left and right

I watched that together with the parents of one Ebba Andersson, that was quite the fun thing to watch (and they seem like really lovely people)