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3 minutes ago, phelps said:

no, it's about the lower bib starting always on the red course...the skiers can't choose where to run first...

Even worse 

But ... why did Liensberger start on the blue then ? 

I guess the better Q time gets to choose his first course. So gold for Liensberger, silver for Worley, bronze for Moltzan 

How unfair is this format ?

Start with the blue -> Win 

J'ai regardé, ça confirme ce que j'en pense. Montel sur des meetings, d'autant plus de niveau national comme celui là, c'est vraiment pas terrible. C'est la voix de l'athlé sur des grosses compétitions où on a besoin de folie et où la maîtrise des consultants (enfin dépend lesquels, Diagana très bon, Diniz très agréablement surpris, Tamgho sympa aussi, par contre Arron quelle horreur) assure les à-côté. 

Sur ce genre de compétitions ses lacunes ressortent, il n'a pas de belle histoire à raconter sur des athlètes très connus, pas d'enjeu nécessitant son grain de folie,et son absence de plus value technique est criante, de même que sa connaisance limitée des athlètes. 

C'est d'autant plus vrai quand le consultant est moyen comme ici même si le fameux Dorian de Koh Lanta n'est pas mauvais. 

Of course rain influence the shot putters, how they handle it, the contact with the somehow wet ground etc 

Better from the Norwegians, well carried by their shooting. Shevchenko great again, she or Vasnetcova will probably (re)get a shot in the WC soon.

Once again ski speed is lacking for the young French girls, apart from Chauveau who's really slow on the range, Colombo erratic again with the rifle.

Bos as starter ? I guess he's very desperate for a place in the Olympics 

4 hours ago, Olympionikes said:

Tout n'est pas à jeter dans l'équipe mais quand on voit le traitement qu'ils sont capable de faire sur le foot on peut se dire qu'ils pourraient faire du bon boulot sur pas mal d'autre sport...

Après c'est leur logique commerciale qui est basé sur le marché français. Je ne sais plus qui disait que la France n'est pas une grande nation de sport mais une nation avec de grands sportifs.

 

Encore faudrait-il définir le concept de grande nation de sport, même si je conçois l'idée. Les grands sportifs font le marché, à l'instar de Fourcade qui a rendu possible des unes sur le biathlon, ce qui était assez peu concevable dix ans en arrière.

12 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

I reach to understand and read the French (my months passed in Paris hinterland help ) but I'm not able to write in French, so, it's time for some English lol

 

I think that  this discussion about l'Equipe is quite funny... Here, in Italy, l'Equipe is the example to imitate (at last for not only football-watcher), is la crème de la crème of the sport journalism. For exemple, Dorothea Weirer never had a frist page on our sport main newspaper (Corriere dello Sport, Gazzetta, Tuttosport) and we never (excluding the Olympic and maybe cycling GT victory) had some "minor sport" in fhe frist page, never. They prefer some transfer market gossip

L'erbe del vicino è sempre più verde  Il est vrai que nous ne sommes pas les moins bien lotis.

On tourne quand même plutôt sur du 1/2 foot en moyenne 

On ne suit plus le carcan capitalistique qui nous impose la route de Tokyo 

Les chiffres de la une sortent tous les ans, le foot domine de manière outrageuse, outrancière même, le reste étant réduit à une portion trop congrue pour que l'Equipe fasse l'objet de mon soutien ... Au delà de la une c'est surtout le coeur du journal qui me pose problème en fait. A la limite qu'ils attirent le chaland avec la même boucle jour après jour why not, mais qu'ils offrent un peu de pluralité par la suite ...

En fait c'est tellement rare qu'on doit les féliciter quand on a pas une une sur le PSG alors qu'il y'a 0 match dans la semaine 

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Fairly sure last year Eurovision had everything (except for in the few countries mentioned, unfortunately for you) and Eurosport had the weekend events. And for the youth/junior worlds I believe the first events were nowhere and only the final events were shown.

Don't you worry, I'll be alright ... Though once again geo-blocking applies even so the event is nowhere to be seen on the channel preventing us from watching the Eurovision stream 

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

I knew the had their snow and size. But since all the urban hubs there are not associated with snow, it's difficult to imagine a biathlete from California making a national team.

 

California having only one biathlon club + Hammerness training in Norway gives some perspective though.

You don't really need a strong relationship with snow sport to get one guy in the national team, especially for the USA. Like, one motivated athlete can be enough if he's gifted.

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Eurovision says that they’ll be live in 13 hours...

 

That stream will be unavailable in France, Poland, and US though.

They possibly refer to the beginning of the competition they broadcast, not necessarily the event in itself 

I don't remember how it was last year. 

Worth noting that California is bigger than all European States except for Russia, Ukraine, France, Spain and Sweden  Covers an area which would roughly contain Italy + Austria + Switzerland

16 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

Nothing on the website so far  

https://www.lequipe.fr/Short-track/Actualites/Les-francaises-championnes-d-europe-du-relais/1216235

A few minutes more and it would have been exactly 24 hours, guess the news are delayed at German customs 

And they whine cause of the sales drop ...  

2nd WR of the year already 

1 hour ago, De_Gambassi said:

Official: Bradbury golds are the best golds
 

 

It's also the first gold medal for a french relay in an international championship  

Actually not the good video but still ...

Article (30 words) in L'Equipe or not ? I'd say the odds are 2.10 for the website and 9.80 for the newspaper  

36 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

the championships are qualifiers for the games?

Nope, once again the qualification in short-track are held in 4 tournaments at the end of the preceding year (so september-december 2021).

Just now, De_Gambassi said:

A Bradbury kind of relay ?

Of course 

But the overall performance of this relay was quite encouraging considering the roster.

AH AH AH  Gold in the women's relay 

Who would have thought ? 

17 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

Almost half of the french team (4/10) is from 2004 or 2003 

Hmm, most of them are here to fill the blanks I fear. Our best young athletes and prospects will not race : Quentin Fercoq (99), Diané Sellier (01), Gabriel Volet (03). Dmitry Migunov neither but I don't know if he's still in the team.

Tawan Thomas seems to have progressed considering the few races in December but still far from the international level, the others seem to be even further.

Not much to expect from these championships I fear apart from Tifany Huot-Marchand (she can grab a medal I reckon), maybe Sébastien Lepape. I have hopes for Aurélie Monvoisin in the future but she's been injured recently and I'm quite surprised by her presence. 

I try hard but I can't ... I can't understand the strange case of Dr Julia and Ms. Simon  

31 minutes ago, dcro said:

I am willing to bet many internet points on him changing allegiance to France before Paris 2024. 

Not gonna happen

Blah blah blah variant, blah blah blah cancellation ...