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What a race to stand behind a group of 20 Swiss and their massive cowbells, holy mother of god my ears

And is in quite some distress at the finish.

Mongolia doesn't seem to care at all about a second spot at the Olympics, they have 5 women competing in Trondheim and are not doing the women's team sprint Somewhat extra sour now. Brazil has a very good chance for 24th place tomorrow (which we were expecting would be what Bruna needed to secure her Olympic spot), but due to the extremely limited amount of participants in today's 10k, that will now be useless for her... Also: no Slovenia, no Japan, two countries we had our eye on until yesterday as countries that we hoped wouldn't compete. But that too, useless now for us.

That was awesome, but damn, Stadlober

Women started and the quiet in the snow stopped, lots and lots falling again suddenly Thank Odin for the roof

Sophia Velicer fan spotted, including the actual Taiwanese flag instead of the nonsense Chinese Taipei thing

I'm curious as well, I gave up my own attempt because of the discrepancies. Of course I'm mostly interested in the area around Brazil and there is quite good hope for them to end up in the top-30 still.

I thought you used this to compare your own rankings as well https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/cross-country/cup-standings.html?sectorcode=CC&seasoncode=2026&cupcode=NC-QUOTOWG&disciplinecode=ALL&gendercode=W&nationcode=

I wonder if the godawful conditions of the past days and the seriously dangerous track of today have some effect in this very limited start list...

Ah, cleared it up...they counted the start numbers for tomorrow as results already. Korean girl starts 2nd, so that's why Korea has so many more points. Mongolian starts 35th, which corresponds with 66 points. I assume they will correct that tomorrow when the actual results are there

@Topicmaster1010 Any idea what happened today? There were no races in Trondheim today, but the ranking changed drastically. Earlier this morning, the part I'm most interested in looked like this: And now it's like this: Changes Latvia: +60 Andorra: +110 Chinese Taipei: +58 South Korea: +232 Hungary: +138 China: +114 Armenia: +62 Great Britain: - Croatia: - Argentina: - Greece: - Lithuania: - Mongolia: +66 Romania: - Brazil: - But where do these come from? There was nothing today, and even if there was, it's not like Korea gained 200+ points in one race..

Yes, then you have a position and with that, points.

Only 65 athletes in the women's 10k tomorrow, down from 80-85 in the previous two world championships. That means Bruna's chance to get the first Olympic ticket for Brazil if they end up with two is now gone*, thanks to Duda Ribera being young enough to compete in the under 23 world championships and score Nations Ranking points there. *unless there's a wildcard in the World Cup for only her, but that seems rather unlikely and given the circumstances, the federation isn't even going to ask FIS for that.

If you're a commentator and you complained at the end of a race like this, you shouldn't be a commentator...

Duh

This was a nice day to be on the grandstands with Andrew Musgrave's parents

I just realized this and was going back to your post to talk about it, just now I see you already added it I really hope it's possible, she said she will still do another race somewhere in Norway next week for starters, but it might be very hard. So far she had never really been close to the 350 points mark in the current points system, with last Wednesday's race being the first (and 298, so an excellent start). She needs it as an average though, so there are more needed of at least around 350... No idea about the men, I follow that a bit less closely, but for Regina it's gonna be tough in the next 11 months or so. Not impossible though!

Not the only fluor issue. Also the skis of two of the Brazilian women (not Bruna) have tested positive, but that was the day before the 7.5k and so they couldn't use those skis, but were allowed to start. Yet another reason why absolutely nothing of Bruna goes into the Brazilian wax cabin, we know for a fact there are at the very least traces of fluor there from earlier competitions. Skis have to be tested before the race now, or else one risks a DQ (which luckily another athlete told Bruna by coincidence, the 'team' didn't say anything and without that she wouldn't even have known and might have been DQ'ed, despite having always had clean skis).

Nothing too special, just many small things. There are so many restrictions on where you can and can't be, athletes needing to focus on the wrong stuff instead of simply their trainings and competitions, transport for athletes taking forever or not appearing at all (we brought the Argentinians to their hotel today, because they can't trust the buses, yesterday they arrived at the track at the earliest possible time...not even 30 minutes before their start). Even yesterday, competition day 1, things like the ticketing area where one can pick up FIS Family tickets wasn't open yet and nobody knew when it would (we've been pointed from the parking to the accreditation center and back a dozen times I think). And the parking...Jesus Christ on a stick. The main parking lot literally has place for maybe 40 cars, that's it. That's not even 1 per country, so most teams have their car or van jammed in between the wax cabins. Of course except for the big countries, like Finland and their double decker fold out truck or Austria and their two full sized shipping containers. Yesterday we ran after a volunteer to the medical center to find Bruna, about whom all we knew was "DNF" and "something with an ambulance and/or hospital". Fine. Then afterwards we wanted to go back to exactly where we came from (with our perfectly valid tickets), but we couldn't, because the 50 meter stretch of empty road was an accreditation zone. Luckily the nurse just appeared outside and helped us through. So many of these relatively small things that make the whole thing feel...messy. At the very least hold an event like this in an easy to reach place for everyone, like the Holmenkollen in Oslo.

Organization overall has a lot to improve, we had all expected way more from Norway of all countries, but in terms of atmosphere...just wow

The atmosphere in the stadium when Klaebo came into the stadium on his way to gold, oh wow That was like an Austrian winning the Four Hills Tournament, times 5 My voice is now gone and my throat sore from all the yelling for our favorites and everything, but totally worth it Gina del Rio! One of the Argentinians said "there kind of should be a fall ahead of her now so she has a chance for the final" (they're friends of her), and I swear not 5 seconds later they fell But she had no power anymore, still super impressive.

Bruna is close friends with these two (and Ceci Dominguez, who isn't here), yes

Brazil and Argentina have arrived at the grandstands

That's both necessary and absolutely the plan, yes

Team sprint selection was already made in January based on a complicated ranking, which the federation themselves got wrong...and literally only I got right Bruna and Jaque should do it