#nordic ski world championships

[world-of-stone]

So, after 24 hours with no ski jumping, I think it's time for a little resume of these world championships just past.

Somehow, a little surprising to me, I think my highlight of the world champs was this wonder woman. I don't follow women's ski jumping as closely as the men's (I barely have enough time to follow that tbh) but I've seen more of it this season than ever before and Katha's performances in Planica simply were the icing on that cake. She is incredible, the way she not only got her first individual Gold at a major event but went on to win two more plus that bronze (that she'd also been missing until now) was absolutely phenomenal. Such a determinded, strong, beautiful woman - it was just a joy to watch her!

Somehow, the men's comps didn't stick with me as much. Obviously, from a German POV, the large hill comps were a bit disappointing but the overall results - with Silver and Bronze on the normal hill and the win in the Mixed Team - were much better than most probably expected before. That win for Zyla and the home wins for Zajc and Team Slovenia were impressive but for some reason, I think Katha's sweep will be what I remember most clearly.

I think what these championships clearly showed is, that

a) the top 10 of the world are actually really close and anyone can win/get on the podium at any given time and

b) they really need to do something about wind points/compensation for back/tail wind. Yes, ski jumping is an outdoor sport but the way some jumpers suffered with worse conditions than their competitors really wasn't fair.

I'm really excited to see how the Raw Air and the rest of the comps this season play out. I think the pressure got to Halvor a little bit, he also doesn't like those hills as much as others but I've no doubt he'll take the overall win. And I'm incredibly excited to see the women ski fly for the first time. Bring it on!

#thoughts anyone? #ski jumping #nordic world championships #debrief #resume #wc23 #wcplanica

[ravensofskyhold]

Ruoska 2nd verse analysis

Aka why there's a reference to a 20+ year-old sports scandal in this song that on the surface is about BDSM.

(Fuck you Kä for making me write a 1500+ word analysis on a reference in one verse of a song and also for forcing me to learn more about Lahti 2001 than I've ever wanted. /j)

Okay, I was already having thoughts about the second verse of Ruoska, which has lots of references to the doping controversy of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships held in Lahti in 2001 aka the biggest sports doping scandal in Finland. The MV gave new context for that part and made the use of the whole reference make a lot more sense to me, enough to develop those thoughts into a semi-coherent analysis (I'm not kidding about this being semi-coherent, I've spent most of the day writing this. You've been warned.).

This analysis does require me to talk about The Lahti 2001 doping scandal a lot. I’ve decided to focus on what I remember from the aftermath of it, especially the Finnish public opinion and reaction, as it is the most relevant part of it for this analysis. So if you’re not familiar with the topic, I recommend reading a short summary of the facts which can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIS_Nordic_World_Ski_Championships_2001#Doping_controversy

In the MV, there’s this about 20s pause between the first chorus and the second verse, where the song just stops and people looking at their phones form a circle at the edges of the spotlight (where Käärijä and Erika are) and hate comments aimed at both of them are shown on screen.

After the pause, we get the second verse:

“Lunta on tullut tupaan niin paljon et tarvii sukset / Gotten so much snow in the house that I need skis

On luokkaa Kari-Pekka nää ahdistukset / At level with Kari-Pekka with these anxieties

Et taloyhtiössä on kosteudenmittaukset/ That the housing cooperative takes humidity measurements

Kun rappukäytävän portailla on hemon virtaukset/ When there's massive tides* on the stairs in the stairway”

[link/credits to the translation]

*added context to this line that gets lost in translation is that the substance flowing down the stairs in the stairway is called “hemo” in the original lyrics. Now, I’ve interpreted it to be either blood/hemoglobin or Hemohes (which is the brand(?) name of the banned blood plasma expander substance that people were caught using in the Lahti 2001 doping scandal. Either way, this detail is relevant enough for this analysis.

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The idiom "tulla lunta tupaan" (to get snow in the house/living room) means to get misfortune, but I think I've seen it also used to mean getting (excessive) adversity/criticism for something (wrong) you've done (from the public, usually).

There certainly is something fucked up and rather telling that from what I’ve seen, many of Finnish fans old enough to remember Lahti 2001 (me included) needed only to hear "skis" and "Kari-Pekka" to get the doping scandal reference. After all, this is a rather subtle (as in, only Kari-Pekka Kyrö’s, one of the head coaches of the ski team, first name is mentioned in the song!) reference to a scandal that happened over 20 years ago. But it also tells you how big of a deal that doping scandal was for Finns, especially since it happened in cross-country skiing aka one of our pride and joy sports, and how much (perceived) shame was involved on national level.

And oh boy, did that sense of national shame get projected back to the public opinion about the people involved in the scandal. The scandal did have massive and long-lasting repercussions on the careers and the reputations of the people involved in Finland, way beyond the official disqualifications and suspensions. These people went from being celebrated athletes and ski team members that everyone was proud of to being mostly, or even only, remembered for being caught using doping. Their past (and future) achievements suddenly didn’t either matter anymore or, thanks to the doping scandal, were regarded with suspicion.

There’s also a layer added to this by the media’s role and involvement in all this that I’m not going to get into here. Only thing from the media side I’m going to point out is that big part of kicking off this incident was the investigation and subsequent article by Helsingin Sanomat crime journalist that revealed damning evidence of the systematic use of doping substances in the Finnish ski team.

The point is, yes they did wrong, and yes they did deserve the (official) consequences to their careers and a hit in their public images, but everything else? The figurative lashing (pun intended) they got from the media and the public? The media and the public refusing to forget and move on from that incident years after the fact and in the process probably not letting them move on from it properly, either? Being remembered only for your mistakes? That was excessive, way out of proportion to what the crime in question was.

Bringing this back to the song, the MV, and the artists:

This reference, especially with the MV context just made me think of the topic of public opinion of celebs and how quickly it can turn against you, even if you’re currently seen as a “hero” of sorts, like Finland’s ski team was in 2001 or Käärijä is now.

It also made me think of how Finns often tend to be jealous of other people's success (the good ol’ belief that there’s a finite amount of luck/happiness in the world and so other people having luck/success is to blame if you don’t have it is still deeply ingrained in us even if we don’t realize it). Like, there are always people who hate someone more successful or famous than them simply because they are successful/famous.

Also, there's often a sense of schadenfreude involved from certain parts of the public when someone famous does something bad/wrong. Something that (in public perception) "justifies" the negative turn in the public opinion on that person, regardless of how bad/wrong the thing actually was and if the reaction is actually proportionate to it. And especially in famous people’s case, there are always people who are just waiting for them to misstep, to fall, just so they can go “see? I knew they were a bad person all along, that’s why I disliked them!”. Or hell, we’ve even seen people who are constantly waiting for the moment a famous person does something that can be twisted into a controversy, or even hounding them to do something or react to something in a way that paints them in a negative light.

Now, I don't think the hate comments seen in the MV are comparable to what happened after the doping scandal (nor that are they meant to be that), and I don’t claim to know what kinds of hate Käärijä and Erika get usually but I doubt that’s comparable either. But there are some noticeable, if much smaller scale, similarities to some controversies they’ve been a part of and the media/public reaction to those. Which does make the doping scandal an effective reference to use to get the point of (often excessive) negative reactions/comments to everything you do across.

So, when the hate comment pause happened in the MV and the second verse started, it felt like the missing puzzle pieces fitting into their places, and being able to see what the second verse is trying to say. Or my interpretation of it, anyway.

The first line is rather straightforward, mentioning getting enough "snow" (aka adversity/criticism/hate, not misfortune like I thought before) into their lives ("house" in the song) that they need equipment/tools ("skis") to help them wade through it, just to keep living their lives.

The line mentioning Kari-Pekka, and anxiety at the same level as his, is interesting. Because on the one hand, he did take the blame for the doping scandal and was, according to his own words, “the most hated man in Finland” at the time. On the other hand, he did get a lot of publicity and was offered a job as a crisis consultant to teach people how to lie believably, because he appeared so calm, collected, and confident in the media during the scandal. So, while on the surface this line is about having a lot of anxiety due to the hate they’re getting, well, the dude whose anxiety levels they’re likening their own to doesn’t seem (to appear) anxious at all despite shouldering most of the blame and hate for such a big scandal, does he? Hell, he got job opportunities thanks to how not-anxious he appeared in that situation.

And the following lines, I've interpreted to be about other people having to acknowledge the damage from those hate comments seeping into their own lives as well because, depending on what "hemo" is interpreted as, either the cause of that hate (hemohes) or a rather visible representation of the pain caused by the hate (blood) is flooding the stairway now. The pain or the cause of the hate others have let into their living spaces/lives is out in the public space now. And going by the next line “Ja mä tahdon jäädä siitä kiipeliin (kiipeliin)/ And I want to get in trouble for it (in trouble)” it’s happening they intentionally let it out into the public in the first place, because they want to get in trouble for it?

There’s something fascinating about that. About acknowledging that they’re getting hate anyway, so they might as well intentionally and publicly do things that people are going to send them hate for. But also acknowledging the hate they’re getting and making other people acknowledge it as well, refusing to keep it hidden and letting it rot only their own lives.

And then continuing that yeah, we’re getting whipped/hated on for everything we do, but

#diri reads too much into things #käärijä #erika vikman #ruoska #ruoska (song) #it may not be that deep but i'm willing to dig and make it that deep #song/lyrics analysis #my meta #this is so long im sorry

[tealingual]

Sport vocabulary in German

Das Aerobic - aerobics Das Badminton - badminton Das Ballett - ballet Das Bergsteigen - mountaineering, mountain climbing Das Bowling - bowling Das Boxen - boxing Das Doping - doping Das Eishockey - ice-hockey Das Fahrrad - bicycle Das Feld - field Das Fitnesscenter - fitness center Das Gewichtheben - weightlifting Das Hallenbad - indoor public swimming pool Das Hallenhockey - field hockey Das Inlineskaten - in-line skating Das Jogging - jogging Das Judo - judo Das Karate - karate Das Kegeln - bowling Das Klettern - climbing Das Laufen - running Das Länderspiel - international, international match Das Nordic Walking - nordic walking Das Paddeln - paddling Das Radfahren - cycling Das Reiten - horse-riding Das Ringen - wrestling Das Rudern - rowing Das Schwimmbad - swimming pool Das Schwimmbecken - swimming pool Das Segeln - sailing Das Skateboard - skateboard Das Skaten - skateboarding Das Skifahren, das Skilaufen - skiing Das Skispringen - ski jumping Das Snowboard - snowboard Das Spiel - game Das Tanzen -  dancing Das Tauchen - diving Das Team - team Das Tennis - tennis Das Tor - goal Das Training - training Das Turnen - gymnastics Das Ziel - goal Das/der Yoga - yoga Der Anhänger - follower, fan Der Ball - ball Der Basketball - basketball Der Boxing - boxing Der Europameister - European champion Der Federball - badminton; shuttlecock Der Fußball - football Der Handball - handball Der Korbball - basketball, netball Der Leistungssport - competitive sport Der Motorsport - motorsport Der Orientierungslauf - orienteering Der Preis - prize, award Der Profi - pro Der Schlagball - rounders Der Schläger - bat, racquet, stick Der Sieger - winner, champion Der Spieler - player Der Spitzensportler - top athlete Der Sport - sport Der Sportclub - sports club Der Sportler - sportsman, athlete Der Sportplatz - sports field Der Sportverein - sports team Der Start - start, takeoff Der Swimmingpool - swimming pool Der Trainer - trainer Der Verlust - loss Der Volleyball - volleyball Der Wettbewerb - competition Der Wettkampf - contest, competition Die Ausrüstung - equipment, gear Die Bewegung - motion, move, movement Die Bronzemedaille - bronze medal Die Goldmedaille - gold medal Die Gymnastik - gymnastics Die Kondition - condition Die Leichtathletik - track and field Die Loipe - loipe, cross-country skiing trail Die Mannschaft - team Die Nationalmannschaft - national sports team Die Niederlage - defeat, loss Die Olympischen Spiele - olympics Die Piste - piste Die Schwimmhalle - indoor swimming pool Die Silbermedaille - silver medal Die Sportart - sport, type of sport Die Sporthalle - gym, sports hall Die Weltmeisterschaft - world cup, world championship Gewinnen - to win Laufen - to run Schlagen - to hit; to beat Siegen - to win Spielen - to play Sport machen - to play sports Sport treiben - to play sports Springen -  to jump Trainieren - to train Verlieren - to lose Fit - fit Sportlich - athletic, sporty

#German #Deutsch #polyglot #languages #langblr #languageblr #language blog #langspo #tongueblr #studyblr #vocab #sports

[skiijumpinng]

The complete schedule for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica 2023

#might as well post this here #it also has the cross country if any of u watch #and the medal ceremonies :)))) #fuck im excited for this they have been waiting too long for this #ski jumping #season 2022/2023 #planica #nordic champs #xcountry

[gwendolynlerman]

Deutschribing Germany

Sports

Germany ranks fourth in the Olympic Games medal count, having won 922 medals in both Summer and Winter Olympic Games since 1896. The country has hosted international sports events such as the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin and Munich, the 1936 Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cup. It will host the UEFA Euro 2024.

Soccer

Soccer is the most popular sport in Germany. The Bundesliga (“federal league”) is the top professional soccer league. Clubs such as FC Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, RB Leipzig, SV Werder Bremen, and VfB Stuttgart take part in it. The most successful team is Bayern Munich, having won thirty-two Bundesliga titles.

The German men’s national soccer team won the Olympic Games in 1976, the World Cup in 1954, 1974, 1990, and 2014 and the UEFA Euro in 1972, 1980, and 1996. The women’s national team is also a world power, having won the Olympic Games in 2016, the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2003 and 2007 and the UEFA Women’s Euro in 1989, 1995, and 2001, making Germany the only country to have won both the men’s and women’s World Cup and European titles.

Handball

Germany, together with Denmark, is regarded as the birthplace of handball, as the first match took place in Berlin. The men’s national team has won the Olympic Games once, the IHF Wold Men’s Handball Championship three times, and the EHF Euro twice. The most successful team in the Handball-Bundesliga is THW Kiel.

Basketball

The most successful clubs in the Basketball-Bundesliga are Alba Berlin, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Brose Bamberg, and USC Heidelberg. Notable German basketball players include Dirk Nowitzki, Elias Harris, Linda Frölich, Shawn Bradley, and Tim Ohlbrecht.

The German men’s national basketball team has won only one international gold medal at the 1993 Eurobasket, as well as one silver and two bronze medals. The women’s national team has won only one medal in international competitions, a bronze one at the 1997 Eurobasket.

Ice hockey

Germany has hosted the Ice Hockey World Championships seven times and the Ice Hockey European Championships four times. The men’s national team has never won an international competition, but has won seven silver medals, and is ranked seventh in the world.

Motorsports

Germany is one of the leading motorsports countries, having manufactured countless race winning cars. Notable Formula One champions include Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, and Sebastian Vettel.

The country hosts the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, a sports car racing series based in Germany, with rounds in other European countries. Since 1995, only German car brands are allowed to compete.

Winter sports

Germany is also very successful in winter sports, being the only country in the world to have four bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks. It has won more medals in bobsledding than any other country in the world, if those won by East and West Germany are included.

The country also dominates biathlon, luge, and skeleton thanks to athletes such as Sven Fischer and Uschi Disl in biathlon, Felix Loch and Natalie Geiseberger in luge, and Anja Huber and Kerstin Jürgens in skeleton.

Notable skiers include Tobias Angerer in cross-country skiing, Martin Schmitt in ski jumping, Eric Frenzel in Nordic combined, and Katja Seizinger in alpine skiing. Claudia Pechstein is renowned in speed skating and Katarina Witt in figure skating. 

Tennis

The two most successful German tennis players of all time are Boris Becker and Steffi Graf. The former won six Grand Slam titles, and the latter won twenty-two, becoming the only tennis player to win all four Grand Slam titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same year.

Cycling

Jan Ullrich is one of the greatest riders, together with Tony Martin in individual time trial races and André Greipel among road sprinters. Germany has hosted the start of the Tour de France four times.

#langblr #german

[royal-hair]

Norwegian royal ladies alongside Queen Margrethe of Denmark at Holmenkollen Ski Festival 2024 (FIS Nordic World Ski Championships) - 09.03.24

#queen sonja #crown princess mette marit #princess ingrid alexandra #princess astrid of norway #queen margrethe #norwegian royal family #danish royal family

[my-friend-meowth]

Malva x Ski Museum: 100 years at Salpausselkä

"The exhibition presents posters from both the Lahti Ski Games and the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, which have been organised in Lahti seven times. The annual games fever at Salpausselkä has continued as an almost unbroken tradition up the present day. Salpausselkä’s attendance record was set at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, which attracted 455,700 spectators."

"100 years at Salpausselkä -exhibition is open in Malva for two months before Lahti Ski Games 9.2.–2.4.2023. Entry to the exhibition is included in all Malva museum ticket types."

www.malvamuseo.fi/en/exhibitions/malva-x-ski-museum-100-years-at-salpausselka/

Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Päijänteenkatu 9

#meowth #squirtle #pokemon #my pokemon #malva #salpausselän kisat

[tilde44]

"LAIBACH TO APPEAR AT THE OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE FIS NORDIC SKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH A SPECIAL PROGRAM"

#laibach #skiing #fis #fucking amazing #last time aspen had fis championship races i met some girls from the slovenian women's ski team #because they recognized my laibach hoody #fis returns to aspen in march for the first time since #after a bunch of rich developers lied to the town that fis would never return #if the voters didnt approve a bid dumb hotel at the bottom of lift one #which passed by literally like 26 votes #and then the developers turned around and sold it to a russian oligarch and made $66mil profit #and then the russian oligarch sued the local newspaper when they called him an oligarch #and then the paper caved #so bye bye free press #oh yeah and the lying asshole that walked away with a cool $66mil? (he bought the property from skico for $7mil just a year before) #he is the cousin of u.s. supreme lying asshole neil gorsuch

[winryofresembool]

What not everyone knows about me is that I’m actually a pretty enthusiastic ‘bench athlete’ (=finnish term for a sports fan). The last few days in my household have been spent watching Nordic World Ski Championships and European Athletics Indoor Championships (congrats Wilma&Reetta!!!). It makes me want to write another sports AU (anyone still remember LCMTI?) but i’m trying to resist hard because /someone/ has not even finished Twlitf yet...

#i really shouldn't commit myself to another long project #maybe one day tho... #quidditch jily au? at least for that i would not have to do as much research as if it was some 'real' sport haha #tia speaks

[bronzebluemind]

ski flying world championships 2026 will be held in Oberstdorf

nordic world championships 2027 will be held in Falun

#the first post was freaking out the second one is the service post #ski jumping #sfwc26 #wc27 #oberstdorf #falun #offseason2022

[kartemeister]

Finally we get to see the Holmenkollen 1.5 kilometre track in action! It adds a little climb in Chapel Climb before heading back to Gratishaugen, and it's a heavily too long course. A middle lap is about 1.8 kilometres long, not to mention the final lap when they have to climb and go behind the shooting range. Phew. Unfortunately, there is not much choice for the course masters, if one wishes the 1.5 km track to have more than one uphill and the fans in Chapel Climb to see the athletes in single mixed relay.

Back in the days, in the Nordic Ski World Championships in 2011, the 1.5 km sprint track turned directly to downhill from the stadium and made some extra metres on top of the shooting range. That 1.5 km loop had more accurately the right length than this one, but in biathlon this kind of a loop is not possible, because the shooting range must be used as well. Here is a map of the sprint tracks used in 2011, courtesy of the WCH organizers.

One option to do the 1.5 km track otherwise would be to use the extra section of the track that 4 km loop has in the beginning of the course, but that would make the course completely invisible for the fans in Kapellskogen.

The 2 km loop climbs a bit higher than the 1.5 km track, but it does not differ much from the 1.5 km course, even in length. I think it is always a rather boring solution to make a course go back-and-forward the same track, but what can you do.

#biathlon #biathlon world cup #oslo #holmenkollen #norway #maps #gis #qgis

[world-of-stone]

Severin Freund is gonna be the new ski jumping expert on ZDF

Have we seen this yet? Brilliant news - I don't mind Toni Innauer at all (contrary to many others on here, I know) but how exciting to see Severin in that role!

(Translation: Austrian ski jumping olympic champion Toni Innauer is doing his last stint as expert at the Nordic Ski World Championships in Planica. His successor is Severin Freund, olympic champion with the team and four times world champion. 64-year old Innauer has been covering ski jumping events for the ZDF for 12 years. Freund will start his ZDF employment with the broadcast of the world cup competition in Oslo on March 11. The 34-year old retired from his ski jumping career in March last year.)

#ski jumping #toni innauer #severin freund #zdf

[ifreakingloveroyals]

18 February 2015 | King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden arrives for the Opening Ceremony of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at the Lugnet venue in Falun, Sweden. (c) Matthias Hangst/Getty Images

#King Carl XVI Gustaf #Sweden #2015 #Matthias Hangst #Getty Images

[rpnewspaperblog]

Did Norway have best world championships season in snow sports history?

At the last two Winter Olympics, Norway reset the records for total medals a single Winter Games (39) and gold medals at a single Winter Games (16). Over the last month, Norway bettered those totals with 52 medals and 18 gold medals in Olympic program events across the world championships in Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping,…

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[robbialy]

From • @laibachofficial LAIBACH TO APPEAR AT THE OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE FIS NORDIC SKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH A SPECIAL PROGRAM #Repost @planicanordic We are just two days away from the start of the biggest sporting event in Slovenia's history! 🙌 It will start on Tuesday, with the opening ceremony at 20.23 on Medal Plaza in Kranjska Gora. The ceremony will feature music group Laibach, the Saša Avsenik Ensamble and DJ UMEK and 130 other performers. Special guests will be Johan Eliasch, President of the FIS International Ski and Snowboard Federation, Dr. Robert Golob, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia and Enzo Smrekar, President of the Ski Association of Slovenia and OK Planica. The ceremony will be broadcasted live on TVSLO2. #planica2023 #ontheroadto2023 @storaensoworld @kranjskagora @julian.alps https://www.instagram.com/p/Co4HWVPsEViUCVTUwsHgOo4CIL3l9Stp_PnMcw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost #planica2023 #ontheroadto2023

[atlanticcanada]

Canada's Arendz races to 3rd straight Para nordic world championship title

Canadian Paralympic star Mark Arendz captured his third consecutive world championship title in the men's standing skate-ski race, highlighting a three-medal day for Canada on Saturday at the Para nordic world championship in Oestersund, Sweden.

from CBC | Prince Edward Island News https://ift.tt/fqly7Dj

#prince edward island #news #politics #canada #atlantic canada #CBCPEI