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Is that a 39?

Who on earth is this (59)?

By the way, what was that dude with bib 59 doing on the track (lapped by the three leaders in the final half kilometer or something), when there were only 54 starters?

Rydzek, what a phenomenal athlete The Austrians miss out on a medal after Denifl brought Rydzek, Braud and Akito back to leader Seidl, followed by Denifl and Seidl having to drop the pace..

This has been one of the most heroic individual races I have ever seen anyone ski by Niskanen, what an amazing gold medal

25s ahead of Sundby after 9.5k, come on Iivo!

So far Niskanen is going wonderfully well, 11s ahead of Sundby at 4.7km and 20+ on the rest.

To be fair, thanks to konig for pointing me at it

Hello We're in

So 64 will be the lucky number tomorrow

Oh come on, Sunday is the King of all Cross Country Skiing Days with both the 50k and the heroic Vasaloppet

It's FIS

By the way, just got this from Bruna. Taken at the warm-up area directly before the sprint qualifying, look who picked a spot next to Bruna

Well that was exciting.

So apparently getting below 180 FIS points in this specific qualifying race was indeed needed. This was the result: And only people from the top-7 are participating today. Not even all of them, because Paul, Skender and Auzina aren't here.

Alright, time for another gold for Bjoergen (who knows, maybe Pärmäkoski could pull of a stunt, that'd be awesome)

Verbij nearly crashes but manages to keep it straight and is world champion

First Norwegian men on the world sprint championships podium since 1997

1:06.51 for Nuis The eternal choker chokes no more

What a world championships for Hege

Damn Ihle, that was a horrible race.

34.08 for Mulder, what the.... 5th fastest time in history

If we don't win, we have to find some other way right? Kodaira already learned how to say "I'm the boss!" in Dutch so that counts

Meanwhile day 2 of the world sprint championships has started in Calgary, so fast times are to be expected. They have been posted already yesterday, for example in the men's 1000m which was arguably the best 1000m race in history: three men going well under 1:07 and Lorentzen and Ihle staying slightly above 1:07 with (for them) superb times. Ronald Mulder and Roman Krech were fast in the 500 with 34.18 and 34.21, although nowadays there isn't really someone capable of really flying like Wotherspoon or Kulizhnikov (who is injured, sick, mentally unstable, etc). Nao Kodaira is dominating the women's competition so far, winning both the 500 and 1000 yesterday, especially that last one is a great result for her. She was of course already the huge favourite and only a fall or huge mistake can stop her from taking the title today. In the Netherlands we're already cheering for a full-Dutch women's podium of Kodaira (Dutch team), Erbanova (Dutch team) and Bergsma (Dutch husband) followed by Ter Mors (Dutch passport)