Cross-country skiing

how big of an upset would it be if norway loses?

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For me it's waking up early to watch Sweden not get a medal

It's Sunday, not all of us a are corporate drones breaking our backs for shekels all week.

Nah, student

When did Hellner become shit?

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He has been shit since 2011

2011

Who's in charge of making sure the Norwegians take their extra doses of asthma medication?

me

Who's in charge of not replying to shitty bait?

me

Who’s in charge here?

me

is USA going to win?

uh no sweetie

sure

No

Yes

maybe

Safe bet, put $1000 on it. Smartest investment since crypto.

who is the diniz of cross country skiing

no one can touch diniz in this sport

Gonna finish Norway / OAR / France. I'm sad Hakola became sick earlier today and couldn't compete, we have no chance of medal with this team.

>Oh god I’m so tired
Just take a puff from your inhaler.

We better win that hockey gold, perkele.

I miss the days when Germany and Italy had top tier teams, what happened? Is everyone doing biathlon instead now?

They’re going to get gold and silver today lad

>Korean absolutely butchering Queen

I'm sorry.

Finland nooo

Voice of an angel

FINLAND NO
NO FINLAND
WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Why USA sucks so much in skiing?

And when they will catch Norway of their Russian style doping program for skiing?

>sweden
WHY ALWAYS US WITH BAD SMÖRE?!

Biathlon for Germany, no idea what happened to italy. The 90's/early 00's were a crazy time for cross country skiing. Italy dominating the men's, Russia the women's, Finland still had good teams, Germany won the world cup three times in a row with three different athletes... For god's sake, Norway won zero medals in cross country in Turin 2006! It was truly a different time.

Burman's struggling a bit, I hope Poltoranin starts firing it up now so the Swede can't keep up

>binland
;_;

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Biathlon is 100 times more interesting.

because cross country skiing in for chumps when you have snowmobiles

>tfw won't get to see Halfvarsson get dropped

Poltaranin is a beast!

What happened?

also this

SWE will take gold

>Burman

>hyvarinen
literally who

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Well Lahti happened and skiing got less and less popular. Not sure when it's going to recover.

We're coming for you funland

You did good Tonseth. I had my doubts

RIP Sweden.

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OAR
A
R

OAR wins.

Hakola is sick and can't compete

Rastelli's doing really great, wow! France and Norway just can't keep up.

where do they keep the baton?

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nice jinx, hetland is a fraud

>Richardsson

Fug :DDDD

I heard that our best skier got sick.

>literally who's getting dropped like flies

surely we have better skiiers somewhere

tired of meme skiiers getting blown out in relays

in tha butt

Guess

yeah, that didn´t prove to be a very good move. At least he beat the swede.

Bravo Hetland

>olympic athlete from russia

>Pull the field like a retard for 2 laps
>Lose +18.2 secs on the last 500m

Pottery

Go Iivo! Beat the Swede

holund have a bronze and should start, hetland has the easiest job in the world and still fucks it up

We are already +1min behind, fuck this.

OAR are just better, we never had a chance

nice joke

After seen so many girlbutts jiggling around during langrenn, I can't watch the men's races anymore.

enough memeing

It´s not gay if you don´t fap.

I am dead serious

baka we have a literal who on the 3rd leg, who didn't even run anything here

>+25
its ogre

>not enjoying the bulges instead
What, are you gay or something?

Does Kekistan have a chance of winning this?

Is doping pretty much under control these days in XC skiing, or is it still pretty widespread? What are the most common forms of doping? Just curious.

this. the webm threads have ruined me

Bolshunov's skiing like an absolute madman. Will definitely be the top contender for world's future best along with the Norwegians and Spitsov

>russian nobodies blowing out the entire field

i thought they caught the dopers

Jacbobsen lost a minute yesterday and we still won, so there´s still hope.

+1 minute

>Bolshunov
>Nobody
Pick 1 and only 1

Epic

No I still see a lot of Norwegians out there

how the fuck would we know?

>i thought they caught the dopers
Well it seems like whole Norwegian team is still there.

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>win 2010 and 2014
>this

It's nice to see we're imroving

It used to be EPO and blood transfusions. But those are noe so easy to detect that no one really tries any more. There are rumors of "microdosing" EPO, which doesn´t really do much though. The whole russian doping shit is in XC too, but no one can prove what they were supposed to be on.

nice ass.

wish Ustugov was on olympics :(

KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN KA ZAKH STAN

you're watching a cross-country ski race and talking about it online? See this guy knows-->

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This alone has cost you at least 2 gold medals

Why I even woke up for this?

Bolsjunov the absolute madman

POOOOOSH FINLAND!

Why he is not there?

Preview of Russia's doping tests.

No

I stayed up to watch slopestyle and this, I guess I just love to suffer

Why do you think?

cuz of doping

S C R A T C H E S
K G B

that guy gonna fuck this up

F

>Gaillard thanking people for waking up so early to root for them
top lad

Might as well race for 2nd as you just know Russia's medal will get overturned

is very nice I will suck the poo from her anus

>Norway +41.1
>Finland +1:06.7
>Sweden +1:33.3
J U S T
U
S
T

now theyll fuck us up

S-Sweden?

Why can't we have asthma cheaters? Why are we such a pure and clean nation?! YOU DONT WIN MEDALS FOR HONOR

Not watching

Is Klæbo participating?

Yeah he looks like a nice guy

Where the fuck is Sweden?

Russia’s won

last leg

Boинcкoe звaниe y Бoльшyнoвa кaкoe?

I tried to tell you -->

Rickardsson = Brink 2

Yes.

Didrik Tonseth
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
Simen Hegstad Krüger
Johannes Hosflot Klæbo

Seriously, how do you go from gold two olympics in a row to this?

Is he fucking Diggins?

Russia isn't competing in this race.

he means OAR. Yeah, Russia doesn't get any medals this year.

And Stina at the same time

>not watching
>posts Diggins

based Diggins poster!

Go Italy! They have excellent skis today, really great underdog story

Kazakhstan, noooooo!

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Yes

you guys are so fucking americans

Why is Manificat doing a classic leg?

>losing to literal spaghettieaters
lolling at norkeks

Finland I understand but what the fuck is up with Norway?

Why don't they have cross country snowboarding?

they gonna win, im sure

Iivo's been going way faster than anyone save for Bolshunov. Looking mighty fine for the 50km classic, it's him against Harvey and Poltoranin in my opinion

Chervotkeen, please

32 seconds behind now, not over yet.

>the absolute state of Sweden

allez maurice !!

Do you think they will beat up this Shervutkin guy if he manages to lose this lead?

sundby is the eternal choker
tonseth is a second rate meme skier

our last 2 should be really strong though, but the russians are aswell

gaining 30s is gonna be hard

ANOTHER NORGE GOLD INC

SWEDEN 2 MINUTES BEHIND
EXPLAIN YOURSELVES

Is Heikkinen fast or is this already over?

Maybe you should try cleaning up all that corruption, tovarich.

Welp, Sundby was kinda meh. Let's hope Krüger can set up based Klæbo without too much of a disadvantage.

That´s what they get for dissing Bjorgen.

Based idea

>long trail down mountain side
Ultimate test of endurance and skill

>french ""expert"" saying the swedes exploded like ready-to-assemble furniture

Oh damn, Chervotkin is losing a lot.

klæbo needs to be a bit ahead, spitsov is stronger over 10km even if klæbo easily wins a sprint

Sweden lost to Germany. Hmmm. It looks like an interesting game.

I hope that RACIST gets fired

Why are jokes like that only ever allowed against the master race?!

How can two compatriots be so distant in speed? Strange for an endurance sport

And another OAR's bronzah

OAR Is going to lose these guys behind him are skiing like madmen.

This is a great relay

Not looking like too farfetched of a scenario right now, fortunately.

eto gege

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how would you not get frostbite not wearing gloves?

well its not our first team, hope we get medal

What happened to Germany? I thought they are pretty good at this?

Kalla should have been allowed to go for Sweden

OH NO NO NO NO NO

It's only around 0 degrees

Kek

At this pace, your body is like a furnace.

they thought you have to use a luge and stayed at the start line

Been shit for 10 years.

physical exertion

Why you aren't good at this?

Is this similar to cyling where it's harder to lead a pack?

Basically, what I'm asking is if France and Italy are a bunch of lazy pricks.

Teichmann was based as fuck, rip

According to google it's 4°C

>Russian hackers

JUST

You can only get cucked by Northug so many times

>OAR were under so much scrutiny that they could only manage to dope one competitor

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Yes, but the advantage of being behind is far less than in cycling

Masculine clitoris.

Depends on the conditions. It shouldn't matter too much here, but if it was snowing it would be a different story.

No. There isn´t much air resistance, so the whole "pack" thing doesn´t mean too much. Some prefer to lead rather than follow wince it allows you to control your own pace.

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Yes but not nearly as significant as in cycling.

Swedish smorebom confirmed

never been good

I was wondering about that during the biathlon (or similar endurance event).

Are skiers required to wear the body suit? Wouldn't just wearing a pair of speedos be better?

Nowhere near the same importance as in cycling, but sure, it's not an advantage to always be in the front. Exception being less prone to other people falling and taking you out.

>de fabiani giving an interview in french and apologizing for poor french
CUTE!

>Skyller på smöret

>beat sweden in skiing
>beat sweden in hockey
today was a good day

How long more should this race last? 20 minutes?

Yeah, but that seems pretty cold especially considering how fast they're moving. I would think the wind would start to become a problem, but I guess they're not going for too long here.

Please FUCK OFF Italy

not true

you had a great generation a few years back with angerer, teichmann and others

She's so fucking hot

Closer to 30

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We have not even played yet Helsinki soyboi

At the same time you create a lot of heat exhausting yourself like they do

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this is why winter olympics trumps summer

why the fuck france and italy still here

Russia must've forgot to give Chervotkin his prescription

based chokevotkin bottling it

Yeah, Teichmann, Angerer and Sommerfeldt destroyed the competition in the middle of the 2000's

He´s too young for the "assembled in a lab"-generation.

It's time.

Orly... It looks like you trying not to jinx it. lol

wew it's close

kek

Oh shit salvadori is gonna collapse

italy broken

Just woke up, where s Sweden?

Oh god, Salvadori looks completely done.

3 2 2

France has a good team, Italy is surprising though. Neither have good enough skiers on the last leg though.

Salvadori will be +1:30 at the exchange

Where they belong.

F to Italy

Come on Klæbo lets fucking gooo!!!

just east of Norway

You're totally mixing it up with biathlon where Germany has always been a powerhouse.

>tfw want this to end so I can have a fap, nap then wake up for the biathlon

Interesting race nonetheless

CHREVOOOTKEEEEEEEN

Yeeeeeees, leave Chervotkin behind!

pindos

>paris
why the fuck is there a frenchman at the top?

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

K R Ü G E R
R
Ü
G
E
R

Go Clément you got this !!!

Its over, grattis norge

WE'RE LOSING
TO FRANCE

TOOOOOO FUCKING FRAAAAANCE

Looking good so far, gonna win 40e if it's Norway/OAR/France and 100e if it's Norway/France/OAR

>+1:59.7

>USA LAST PLACE
WTF WHY WHY

USA USA USA

Embrace the pain Swedebro

Only after accepting the despair, can you start to enjoy it

chervotkin's got heart, thats for sure

Damn, what a crazy good leg by Krüger that was.

No chance of getting a medal against these experts.

Thank god for Krüger

OVERDOPED

Scary scary Spitzman

>Norwegians literally only good at skiing
>About to be tied for most golds

Anyone who memes about Americans swimming and snowboarding needs to get real.

>france tv switch to ad break
REEEEEEEEEEE

Ban Norway cuz of cheating with inhaler. When?
>OAN
sounds good

we dont pretend to be anything but skiing babies

Thank you based France

hard F my boi

GO GO GO FROG!

>50 m swim
>100m swim
>150m swim
>200m swim
>250m swim
>300m swim
>50m swim Breaststroke style
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>50m teams Breaststroke style
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>spitzov losing time

OAR pls make this fun

Alpine, freestyle, and nordic skiing are all such different sports, and Norway is good at all of them. There are way too many Nordic event though, so that inflates their numbers.

We've won the most medals in different sports of all countries. Biathlon, cross-country skiing, freestyle, alpine skiing, ski jumping and speed skating. We will also very likely win medals in snowboard and Nordic combined. Finished 4th in curling.

really? his pace seems faster than front two.

France > Norway
Nuclear > Oil

I'm getting Northug flashbacks from the way Klæbo's running.

Just wait until Thorium is a thing.

also fourth twice in snowboarding

Flattbrod > Baguette

Frog better win this game cuz they need a gold medal!

France, please

I hope, I think there's more chance we're getting silver though

>Thorium
meme

Literally one medal so far in anything that doesn't involve skis in some form.

Why is Russia so bad now?

I thought Swamp-Germany caught up with our speed skating total?

What happened to Kazakhstan? They lost 2nd place to 9th?

>Sweden 2 minutes behind WITH asthma.

The state of Svea.

most things do

Is Spitzov's tempo smart so the can far-sprint the whole last lap, or is he trying to catch them as fast as he can?

They have 1 really good classic skiier and 1 okay one. The last two legs are raced by literal whos

That sneaky norge

*steals your gf*

Looks like France has better refugees, therefore it should win

Surprised Spitsov hasn’t caught up to them yet

UNBERIVEBRUH
SILVER INC

kek

If this baby faced little Russian pulls this off I'll be over the moon

Norway got the best stuff under the skiis today

WTF SPITZ NOOOO WHAT U DOIN

>dat glide past France a minute ago

NORTHUG 2 ELECTRIC KEKALOO

I'm referring to medals won in different sports at these Olympics. NL have only medalled in speed skating and short track speed skating.

RUSKIES STRONG

N-NANI

Lmao Kläbo fucking France out of a silver

GO FRANCE GO

>letting olympic athletes from russia win a gold
norway please

kek, thanks for your hard work, France. See ya!

LET HIM BE FIRST FOR NOW
THST FOOKIN SNEAKY NORGE

Spitzov actually looks like Andrew Luck

>Pellegrino in a 10k
LMAO

>sweden thinks his skis have asthma

>Klæbo

I like his style

REEEEEEEEEEE

Spitsov looks like a math tutor. Luck looks like Shrek

look how you just slide past France on the downhill, stop using anti-matter norway

klæbo channeling the spirit of northug

Well bronze it is

France looks cooked.

>Eritrea
>Syria
>Somalia
>Afghanistan

Come on Russia! I know you will not get a medal on your record. Just do it anyway.

Andrew Luck is actually extremely smart, he graduated from Stanford with a degree in Engineering or some shit

>tfw yoiu got so good at prepping XC skis that FIS force you to share your technology to make competition fair.

>Inte så inspirerande att vara två minuter efter

I know. But look like a nerd he does not

From what part of asthma are you from lads

Is that a bad thing?
>wanting cross country to be a sport where your gear matters a lot

The less it matters, the better tbf

Qlebeh just play with spitz

as much as i want to throw norway under a bus this is wrong, should have to be forced to share secrets your own countries guys have worked on for their team

Eh he kinda does look like a nerd...

THESE CHEAT SKIS

DO THEY FUCKING PUT ASTMA MEDICINE IN THE FUCKING SMÖRE?!

It's time.

I didn´t say it was bad. Was justi pointing out that we spent so many millions on research that it should´t be surpirsing our skis are fucking marvelous.

Also: HERE WE GO BOYS!

should not

BASED KLÆBO
GOOD-NORTHUG

busted for having a motor in the skis screencap this

CHAD ALWAYS WINS

REEEEEEE

CHEATING NORGE!

What's this about asthma?

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÀAAAA

He's so fucking good

KLÆBOOOOOO

wow

i thought spitsov would be stronger

WE DID IT BOYS

Fair enough

>tfw a Norwegian skis near me

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nice sprint, Placebo

Norge won, thanks to this

Klaebo looks like Peter/Kasper Schemichel

>people actually think it’s the skis and not how he races downhill

>OAR's third leg getting a silver medal
Undeserved.

>+2.05

What is it with Finns not wiping the spit off their face?

>OARs fourth leg getting a silver medal

Deserved

norwaywinslol

Klæbo isn't even tired

Thanks to better skis, basically.

yeah I bet that inhaler helped it a lot.

See you for the triathlon in ~3 hours ;)

nah, he's just better

He doesn't have asthma

biathlon* lmao, commentator was talking about some british triathlon dude made me think of the wrong thing

When is the ski deathmarch? Is that the last cross country event?

Bronze nice

Yeah. Always on the last day.

next sunday

its always the last day

nice little sunday walk for Klæbo

Well, fuck me, it's acutally on Saturday. Women have their 30k on sunday instead. Feminist Korea mixing it up.

>usa
lmao

No, there is Men's 50km Mass Start Classic on Feb 24th.

jesus christ we suck

yeah ;_;

These cross country skiing events are so fun

What... Italy lost to Germany. Interesting...

Skiis: Norwaywinslol
Biathalon: 5cadwinslol
Bob/Luge: Germanywinslol
Curling: SwedenwinslolXDD
Shorttrack: SKwinslol
Speedskating: Hollandwinslol

The real ski deathmarch is march 4th though, at 90 km

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasaloppet

We got this lads

For me, it's Team United Bakeries

Omg, that was amazing. Gg France, gg Norge

God bless those bakers, making sure we have fresh bread every day

Mass start Biathlon later.

gg, OAR :^)

gg OAN :3 gg OAF

he also have body of 15yo boi, lok at 15km podium the guy is 1 head shorted an 2 meters thinner than others

...but we weill. wikipedia does

That will be gold for France?

4cadwinslol

>i thought spitsov would be stronger
he was better than Klaebo in skiathlon 6 days ago they

Probably, he's really good in mass starts. Johannes was much faster on the range and on the course last race though, and Tarjei is also good enough to win.

>usa talking about corruption

h-hey
what about me
i'm s-super

>Curling: SwedenwinslolXDD
Why didn't you compete in mixed? Canada already won a gold.

super-retired

Fuck it all. At this point I don't even care. This rooting for you country is not for me anymore. We have 300 days of winter and we can't win a single medal in winter olympics. Damn it all.

omg love her cheeks

Cheeks are one of the tastiest pieces of pork.

When is the biathlon?

in 5 mins!

such a shame usti couldn't race. then we could have a real goat fight with spitsov going 3rd against kruger and bolshunov vs klæbo

aww that's nice. congrats on the bronze france. paris looks top tier. great technique

kys

>has all his medals in DUDE WEED LMAO sports
>has the gall to call out outher country with most diversified profile of medal events
kys mutt

who's his gf???

LOL

The fucking delusion. With skiing, do you include Biathlon and Alpine and every sport with skiis on too? Then there would barely be an Olympic. Fuck off

>tfw Germany is going to win 10 more gold medals in Luge, Bobsleigh and reverse Luge

3/4 relay guys we had today were the ones who in February 2017 were racing not in WCH in Lahti, but on Junior WCH in USA and finished simultainosly in 30k skiathlon(they were in runaway)
youtube.com/watch?v=reiw_1Syzi0

based! excited to follow spitsov further and already a fan of bolshunov. too bad usti wasn't allowed. would have been kino matchup to see spitsov vs kruger and bolshunov v klæbo in the relay

Maybe the banning of your athletes will benefit you long-term, because more space for younger athletes. Skiing needs Russia for proper competition.

>spitsov vs kruger and bolshunov v klæbo
do you think ustujgov wouldnt run last leg?

was thinking the same. dont know was there some dirt in around sochi, etc etc, but if it wasnt for Legkov and others then maybe Ustjogov would not push hard, and if Ustjugov(+belov, bessmertknykh etc) were not banned, maybe some of young guys would not have been expericing OG racing and would not motivate themselves and start believe that they can be world top-10 etc

Is there a more beautiful female name than Ingvild Flugstad?

Definition of Little Brother complex

Not so cocky now though

Lol
Ampumahiihto is literally "shooting-skiing"
And you got "ski(ing)-shooting"

>normaldistance