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Cross country skiing, Biathlon, alpine skiing, ski jumping, nordic combination and Vasaloppet
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| Daggen |
Posted on 28-10-2012 21:03
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I know there's very small interest of skiing in the UK, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and all those other countries without any real mountains. Well for us with mountains and an interest in skiing here's the first forum which concetrates around skiing. You can discuss alpine, cross country and Biathlon.
For those who don't know what Biathlon is. Spoiler It's a competition where the skiiers ride around a track of different distances with a rifle on thier back, and then shoot at five different targets. If you miss a target you have to ride in a circle of abput 200m pr you'll get one minute added to your time
The alpine season has already started in Sölden  where the american Ted Ligety won over Manfred Moelgg  with 2 seconds and 75 phr in giant slalom. The Swedes dissapointed with an eleventh and one crashing out.
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| Wild Dog |
Posted on 28-10-2012 21:06
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Yeah! Love Biathlon. Watched it a lot two years ago or so. Didn't watch it much last year but will do this year (if I remember  ) When does the season start?
Also where is Ski Jumping?
Vincenzo Nibali - Rui Costa - Nairo Quintana - Alberto Contador - Peter Sagan
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Posted on 28-10-2012 21:08
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Ski jumping i didn't think of but it's skiing in general.
The Biathlon season starts the 24th of November at 10 am |
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| Wild Dog |
Posted on 28-10-2012 21:12
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Ahh, almost a month then. Will probably forget it then 
Vincenzo Nibali - Rui Costa - Nairo Quintana - Alberto Contador - Peter Sagan
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| jaxika |
Posted on 28-10-2012 21:13
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Im a big fun of the winter sports. I can barely wait to the real start of the season. Biathlon, cross country, ski jumping, nordic combined, alpine skking, all of them its very interesting. |
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Posted on 28-10-2012 21:28
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I see the Fourcade brothers as clear favourites for this years WC in biathlon. Maybe they might be challenged by Emil Hegle Svensen of norway. For the swedes. We should be happy if we win five races. I think best swede next year will be Fredrik Lindström.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 30-10-2012 15:07
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Denmark? Not really. At all.
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about" |
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Posted on 30-10-2012 15:23
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CrueTrue wrote:
Denmark? Not really. At all.
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
 but Indeed, really looking forward to the season to start  , but watching
ski jumping and downhill skiing is almost like watching boring football (in my case, all football matches, except the champions league final..)
The big highlight of the year is ofcourse Tour de Ski (idk how they got up with that name though ) but no norwegians has ever won it  (either men or womans) so really hoping this will be the year!
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Posted on 30-10-2012 15:29
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CrueTrue wrote:
Denmark? Not really. At all.
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
Name a single real mountain where you can go skiing in Denmark
By the way. I'm Swedish
Edited by Daggen on 30-10-2012 15:30
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Posted on 30-10-2012 15:34
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dev4ever wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Denmark? Not really. At all.
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
but Indeed, really looking forward to the season to start , but watching
ski jumping and downhill skiing is almost like watching boring football (in my case, all football matches, except the champions league final..)
The big highlight of the year is ofcourse Tour de Ski (idk how they got up with that name though ) but no norwegians has ever won it (either men or womans) so really hoping this will be the year!
Marit Björgen won't have any competition this year. Dario Colonga will probably win the tour on the men's side |
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| Montolivo |
Posted on 30-10-2012 15:34
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I don't watch ski jumping and skates because it's boring. I do like very much cross country skiing, biathlon, nordic combined and alpine skiing. Fan of Alessandro Pittin (nordic combined), Emil Hegle Svendsen (biathlon) and Dario Cologna (cross country skiing). |
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Posted on 30-10-2012 15:36
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I don't like Emil. Mainly beacause i'm Swede |
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Posted on 30-10-2012 16:13
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I care about winter sports too and many people in Central Europe do.
We have Bauer in cross country (winner of first Tour de Ski season) and good ski jumpers, Zahrobska in slalom and decent nordic combined and biathlon riders.
I love biathlon though and i was enormous fan of Ole Einar (did he quit or one more year?), now i support his "successor" Svendsen.
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Posted on 30-10-2012 16:26
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Ole Einar is still going strong. He wants to win the world cup total this year. I don't think so, but he might be better then the last year and get a couple of world cup wins.
As for earlier times i loved to watch Bente Skari, Stefania Belmondo and Adam Malysz when i was young.
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Posted on 30-10-2012 16:38
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Ole Einar is one of the athletes I respect the most. A huge fan of him |
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Posted on 30-10-2012 16:47
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Is the 'Tour de Ski' still around? |
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Posted on 30-10-2012 16:50
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Yep. It will probably be a big goal for many athletes |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 30-10-2012 16:55
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CrueTrue wrote:
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
Winter sports are huge in Germany, at least when it comes to media coverage 
Foreign athletes I support(ed) are (obviously) Ole Einar, the ski jump oldies Malysz (sadly retired) and Kasai (still around??) and the funny Didier Cuche (sadly retired) with his perfected ski flip
Furthermore, my grandparent's neighbors are close relatives to biathlete Michael Greis, so I'm obviously a bit biased there
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Posted on 30-10-2012 16:56
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cio93 wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
Winter sports are huge in Germany, at least when it comes to media coverage
Foreign athletes I support(ed) are (obviously) Ole Einar, the ski jump oldies Malysz (sadly retired) and Kasai (still around??) and the funny Didier Cuche (sadly retired) with his perfected ski flip
Furthermore, my grandparent's neighbors are close relatives to biathlete Michael Greis, so I'm obviously a bit biased there
Your neighbors are relatives to Michi Greis! Awesome |
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Posted on 30-10-2012 17:01
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Daggen wrote:
cio93 wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
Winter sports are huge in Germany, at least when it comes to media coverage
Foreign athletes I support(ed) are (obviously) Ole Einar, the ski jump oldies Malysz (sadly retired) and Kasai (still around??) and the funny Didier Cuche (sadly retired) with his perfected ski flip
Furthermore, my grandparent's neighbors are close relatives to biathlete Michael Greis, so I'm obviously a bit biased there
Your neighbors are relatives to Michi Greis! Awesome
Those three Olympic gold medals are heavy, I tell you!
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