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FIS / COC Summer

Nothing all too bad tbh, both cups starting in China and then- Yeah, it already starts horrible.

There's over a month between the FIS Cup comps in China and Korea meaning that the athletes probably will go home in between. Not very climate-friendly (this will become a pattern)

The girls have ~2-3 days to get from Korea to France where they change city twice in three days or so before going to Switzerland with no break

The boys will be touring France towards the end, with 4 comps in a week (compared to the girls having 6 comps in 9 days incl. a flight from Korea to France)

COC girls only have 6 comps

In general, COCs of both genders have less comps than the FIS cups

FIS / COC Winter

Ignore what I said about COC having less comps in summer, they're making up for it in winter

The COC boys have 30 comps, the girls 18 (talk about equality)

But hey!! The girls end their seasons in America and Canada (Park City - Whistler - Lake Placid)

The FIS cup girls have 10 comps, the boys 14, which... a bit better

Traveling for the FIS cups isn't terrible, COC girls neither (you could've at least made it America - America - Canada but oh well)

BUT THE BOYS. OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY: The off-time should be doable, there's often a week in between the comps, but the amount of traveling. God. Germany - Japan - Austria - Germany - America - Germany

Another highlight: Norway - Slovenia - Finnland

Listen, FIS, you can do better than that??

Men's World Cup Summer

Okay, these are the FIS' favorites it can't be that ba- What the fuck

Two comps in Poland, two weeks later one in France and then- THE NEXT A MONTH LATER? Okay???

We have two comps in Schuschinsk which is nice!!

Mixed team in Russia, nice too.

Rasnov, really nice

Seriously, can't be too annoyed about this one tbh.

It's 11 comps, still more than the girls

Men's World Cup Winter

Aight HERE WE GO LET THE SHIT SHOW START

Starting in Russia for once? Okay, I'm down

~10 days off before 4hills? also nice!

Wait what-

Zakopane - Sapporo - Willingen - Bejing? Are you high?

That's 14,658.5 km "Luftlinie" (Air-line?). Climate-friendly my ass.

Oh? There are only 4 days between Willingen and Olympia? GREAT.

The comps Poland - Japan - Germany are always the next weekend btw

To start RawAir in Lillehammer is also a decision I don't need to understand, huh

Also, Olympia ends on the 20th, Lathi is on the 26th /27th and then hell aka RawAir starts on the 2nd. Mind you of the 28 days in February

So, traveling hell, Olympia, Lathi and then torture, followed by the ski flying wcs (at least there are five days between Oslo and Vikersund)

Someone needs to fire whoever is responsible for the traveling issues here like??? are you drunk??

Women's World Cup Summer

Heyyyyy it's the womeeeeen... This will be terrible right?

9 comps. Could be worse.

They don't have this weird month-break thanks to Frenstad. It's only a 3-week-break.

But they have a second 3-week-break before the last competition in Klingenthal.

All in all, this isn't terrible. Always together with the men (excluding Frenstad) and a Mixed Comp. Yay!

Women's World Cup Winter

Okay, summer wasn't bad, so winter can't be terrible either right? wrong.

They have about a month off between Klingenthal in December (12.12) and Sapporo in January (08.01) and this is when shit starts to go down

Sapporo JPN (08/09.01) - Zao JPN (11/12.01) - Rasnov ROU (14/15/16.01)

That means going from Japan to Roumania in about a day, because the Qualification will probably be on the 13th. I don't know about you, but I don't think there's a flight going from Zao to Rasnov directly so add traveling and subtract the time difference and- wow. It's still not even 24 hours.

AND THEN they also have the Willingen - Olympia issue as the men.

And the one-competition-weekend and then the suffering that is RawAir issue.

While they don't have Vikersund, they go back to Neustadt/Hinterzarten and six days later, Blue Bird starts.