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Old December 5th 04, 02:07 PM
taywood
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Default Weekend TV viewing

In between pruning my roses, no snow in UK and still got roses
in bloom, I've been glued to the box watching skiing on
Eurosport and ZDF.

I'm surprised our US friends havent commented on how well their
two nordicombi skiers are doing at Trondheim.
Johnny Spillane and Todd Lodwick were placed 5th and 8th
yesterday and 3rd and 5th today.

I'm just waiting for the Team sprints from Bern in Switzerland.
Yesterday the racing was excellent, town centre event round
the block, no local snow just a man made course.
If you get chance to see the Mens sprint courtesy of Janne just
remember my two moments, The Push and The Turn.

For most of the course the four racers could be side by side but
where it narrowed the leading two guys spread themselves,
quite naturally, to avoid being overtaken. At one point the guy
behind got so brassed off at being balked, as the guy in front
wavered left and right, he planted both hands on the guys back
and pushed him. Fortunately the racer recovered and the culprit
got penalised. I expect we'll see more happenings like this.

But The Turn is something you gotta see.
Tor Arne Hetland was only just in the lead approaching the very tight
corner and from the start to the end of the corner he just took off at
speed and by the time all four had rounded the corner he had a fantastic
lead.
Perhaps one of you eagleeyed technique analysts can explain just how
he altered his movements to achieve this.


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