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This won't be a problem in the case of women's Nordic combined

Ice is perfectly fine if you have a decent 'ice master', and if it gets a bit rough, who cares? Everyone is in the same race anyway, so it won't influence it or anything. Besides, the Dutch Marathon Cup consists of only 100km races (a few per week), 50km is nothing and the current mass start distance really is just a joke

Well, at least some long race. If they don't replace mass start with elimination race, at least make the mass start longer than this joke of a format they have now.

If they take out the mass starts (which are way too short anyway) and add like a 50km elimination race, that'd be pretty cool

Team sprints in long track does seem like something ISU would want to add, especially since nobody cares about it and there are (literally) World Cup events with 3-4 teams in them Sort of like the mass start, which was already added hastily to the Olympic programme without having been tested on the World Cup circuit thoroughly, leading to situations where even 15 minutes after the finish nobody had a clue who had actually won and why.

Also, there's quite often talk or at least discussion about cyclo-cross being added to the Winter Olympics. It most definitely is a winter sport, although it's not by definition done on ice or snow. Personally I'd like it because the sport is just really cool to watch (if the course is muddy or snowy or something), but since it only really is big in Belgium and to a smaller degree in the Netherlands, I doubt it has a chance (and maybe a little in Czech Republic until Stybar sadly moved away to the road).

Cool, I didn't know I still have Uytdehaage's legendary 12:58.92 in Salt Lake City clear as day in my mind

Women's nordic combined: I am indeed afraid it will be added in 2022, there's almost no way around it. It's pure stupidity to add an event to the Olympics 4 years after a Continental Cup (not even a World Cup yet) is started, but hey, gender equality no matter what. Speed skiing: I doubt it will happen, mostly for a lack of excitement. I mean, all you really see is someone racing down the mountain and that's it. No turns, jumps or something, it's just really 'static'. Sort of like a big water glide and then have a competition about who goes down fastest. Women's team ski jumping: this is not ready for a team event yet given the number of top competitors...give it more years, have some patience so it can grow, but don't throw in a team competition just because gender quality has to be achieved as soon as possible and no matter what. Biathlon single mixed: this is a fun event indeed, but perfect for exhibition events (like Biathlon auf Schalke) and not much more than that. Ice climbing: I hope it will be added, it looks cool Skiing big air: Nah, much like snowboard big air, it's just too 'meh'. There's no race, the action is so short and not even that spectacular... Ski flying is not a different sport, it's just a part of ski jumping

Telemark is different. If I recall what I saw on German TV during the winters correctly, they start in parallel gates, do some sort of parallel slalom and then a bit of XC to the finish with some curves and stuff.

Whatever happens, this should be added (although Bruna (Moura) might stop with biathlon then to do this....that's not good )

Time schedule (finals only), always useful to have that early in a thread without having to click on other links Tuesday, September 26th 09:00 Men's Team C1 09:36 Women's Team K1 10:10 Men's Team K1 11:00 Women's Team C1 11:22 Men's Team C2Thursday, September 28th 14:44 Mixed C2 FinalFriday, September 29th 16:37 Men's C2 Final 17:12 Women's C1 Final 17:47 Men's K1 FinalSaturday, September 30th 15:22 Women's K1 Final 16:09 Men's C1 FinalSunday, October 1st 16:07 Women's K1 Slalom Cross Final 16:11 Men's K1 Slalom Cross Final

Outside Amsterdam it's known as the capital of hipsters and arrogance, I'm not a fan and would gladly vote for independence

I would not give a damn about that. Bye typical Amsterdam arrogance

I wonder why basically everyone is against an independent Kurdistan. I mean, if Turkey, Iran, Iraq, USA all basically agree on something, this something truly must be the worst idea ever, surely?

And then what?

8.8% for a party that wants this, that's not good..

Absolutely, the worst fear after that move was that he might influence the race later on and oh man, he influenced the race..

Netherlands: 1st and 2nd Belgium: 3rd-11th Belgium knows who's the boss.

Van der Poel is riding like he's going to buy some groceries at the supermarket

Rumour has it Van der Poel will do the first 2-3 of the big Belgian races tonight as well, before the fight for 2nd place in this race is finished.

Some showboating here and there from Van der Poel. If he wants, he can win all main classifications this season if he keeps this up.

Last week Van Aert's excuse was that he had a jetlag from travelling to the US and that sleeping in an 'altitude tent' made him tired. I wonder what's his new excuse for being entirely invisible

Van der Poel is so much better, this is ridiculous

Dutch NOS only shows it online, Belgian TV is only online too