heywoodu 13,499 Posted October 8, 2021 #21 Share Posted October 8, 2021 11 hours ago, ahjfcshfghb said: I actually don't hate this idea for relays because it would make them more competitive esp. for smaller nations. Mixed team sprint seems unnecessary as hell though. CC already has so many events. They're already barely ever holding regular relays though, this only seems like something that will cut that down even further. ahjfcshfghb 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted October 8, 2021 #22 Share Posted October 8, 2021 8 hours ago, Monzanator said: Like which smaller nations? If they allow Norway B, Russia B and Sweden B to compete (duh) Read the articles first though Quote For each event, one team per nation will be allowed to be entered. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted October 8, 2021 #23 Share Posted October 8, 2021 Rules can alwas be changed on the fly. Who will stop Norway from boosting the team count anyway especially since Russia and Sweden would also be for adding a second or third team if neccessary. Cross country has about three relevant countries left running the show so of course they will get their wish. Anything to further extend Norway's dominance of the sport will be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,112 Posted October 8, 2021 #24 Share Posted October 8, 2021 This idea aside, i'm generally speaking. But what is it with all these sport governing bodies, that have constantly the urge to shuffle the events. Is there a ghost at night that haunts them with "More events, new events, more events, new events". Will they not get their salaries, if they don't come up with some new ideas every year? It can't be the good old saying of "growing the sport", because these changes have never grown an Olympic sport in the last 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted October 8, 2021 #25 Share Posted October 8, 2021 In winter sports there is no growing of the sport. On the contrary even, fewer nations are relevant there year after year. Finland has completely fallen off the cliff, first in ski jumping then in cross country. Germany in alpine skiing and not looking all that great in biathlon either. Canada is gone in alpine skiing too. Czech Republic is gone from ski jumping and we're like one Olympic cycle away from Poland being gone too. The ski jumping struggles to even field 50 jumpers at World Cup level these days if the event is held outside of Europe in Russia for instance. Even if the reason is the growth of freestyle skiing it doesn't explain how former powerhouses are completely irrevelant in certain events. It's been 20 years since the Lahti WC doping fiasco derailed Finnish cross country. That's like two full generations and their answer is a 42 year old RL Roponen? Putting on mixed relays solves nothing. Cross country goes down with inbreeding and will become more irrelevant year by year. Only Norway, Sweden and Russia seem to care about this sport these days and everyone seems to be fine with it. FIS can sell these new ideas but nobody is buying that. Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted October 13, 2021 #26 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Marit Bjoergen admitted in her autobiography she had a positive test for nandrolone in 2017 but FIS turned a blind eye And you wonder why nobody outside Norway gives a fuck about cross country anymore. https://www.world-today-news.com/bjoergen-used-a-forbidden-measure-the-reaction-of-the-fis-surprised-everyone/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted October 14, 2021 #27 Share Posted October 14, 2021 8 hours ago, Monzanator said: Marit Bjoergen admitted in her autobiography she had a positive test for nandrolone in 2017 but FIS turned a blind eye And you wonder why nobody outside Norway gives a fuck about cross country anymore. https://www.world-today-news.com/bjoergen-used-a-forbidden-measure-the-reaction-of-the-fis-surprised-everyone/ Just some nuance for people not actually clicking the link and only reading the post (if anyone is even still reading a cynical thread like this, hopefully this cynical nonsense will stay out of the actual competition threads once the season gets underway...): there were potentially legitimate explanations for it, related to the menstrual cycle, but those were sadly not investigated further by FIS. Just to clarify that it wasn't like "Oh yeah, you used nandrolone, but whatever". Ted 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted October 14, 2021 #28 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Yeah, but FIS taking whatever excuse Norway comes up with shows clear intent. If they busted Johaug for the lipstick excuse then why completely ignore looking into Bjoergen's case? Imgaine if those were Russians. FIS would bend over backwards to dig into the case. The Symbicort Empire lives on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted October 19, 2021 #29 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Quite the performance for this young Brazilian in São Carlos Ted, NearPup and dcro 1 1 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted October 19, 2021 #30 Share Posted October 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Quite the performance for this young Brazilian in São Carlos And yet he only gets 165 FIS points. FIS Ted 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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