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Summer Olympics / What will you watch?
On the eve of the opening day of the 2004 Athens games and out of curiosity,
which Olympic summer sport do you, as a xc skier, favor? Why? JMC |
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Summer Olympics / What will you watch?
"JMC" wrote:
On the eve of the opening day of the 2004 Athens games and out of curiosity, which Olympic summer sport do you, as a xc skier, favor? Why? Since I'm cyclist who in the past did some x-country skiing as a form of winter training, I should favor cycling. But, though I will watch the olympic cycling races, I don't consider them that much worth, since cycling is one of those pro sports (like soccer, basket, tennis) in which the Olympic gold is a minor achievement when compared to some non Olympic events (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, the "monument" classics etc...). So in the end I think that, as usual, the best memories from these Olympics will be the ones from track&field, because that one is still the queen of the olympic disciplines. |
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JMC wrote:
On the eve of the opening day of the 2004 Athens games and out of curiosity, which Olympic summer sport do you, as a xc skier, favor? Why? JMC Cycling because it is my favorite summer activity. But I do a bit of running too, so I enjoy the distance runs. And I used to do Masters Swimming, so I watch that too. However, cycling is at the top because I do a lot of it. Leland |
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Opening and closing ceremonies, cycling for sure, and will probably have it on
most of it's course. Still deciding just how much to tape, there is going to be a lot of coverage. John Wilke Milwaukee |
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As little as possible. Wake me up when it's over.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, bt |
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"JMC" wrote in message m...
On the eve of the opening day of the 2004 Athens games and out of curiosity, which Olympic summer sport do you, as a xc skier, favor? Why? JMC Paddle sports. Since XC skiing is at least 40% upper body conditioning... increasing to 100% with classic double-poling... paddling is a natural for skiers, especially with the increasing interest in distance events. As in skiing there is alot of technique involved if you want to be efficient - I'm not talking about jumping into a sea kayak and flailing away. Watch a good fla****er kayaker in an ICF boat... it can be very elegant. Watching the Canadian men's eights in rowing. The 1500m on track should be exciting with Lagat and El Gerrouj, and the 10,000m. Why don't they have an Olympic cross-country running event? They used to up until the '30s. I think Paavo Nurmi won it once. Now it's only in modern pentathlon, which to me is a really cool event when I think about it. Mountain biking... now that the Belgian cheater is gone. Did Carl Swenson make the Olympic team - I thought he was a xc cyclist in the summer? I think xc cycling has more kinship with xc ski than road biking, and the Olympics are more of a big deal since they don't have any of these multi-stage monster events... I'm taking the last week of August off to watch and get in some late summer paddling and cycling around home here in Ottawa. |
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wrote: On the eve of the opening day of the 2004 Athens games and out of curiosity, which Olympic summer sport do you, as a xc skier, favor? Why? JMC Kirsten Gum |
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JMC wrote:
On the eve of the opening day of the 2004 Athens games and out of curiosity, which Olympic summer sport do you, as a xc skier, favor? Why? 202 nations taking part, many of those have racers/performers who have not met the Olympic qualification but are there because they are the best from that nation. Thats what I'll be watching for. Sure they'll be eliminated early, but the Organisation is setup to give them the chance to beat their own PB's and to take those memories home. Remember Eric the boy from Guinea? who'd only recently learnt to swim. What a hero. I was once lapped in a small local ski race, I was doing KDP and this guy did only DP. It turned out he was a rower. Thats why I shall be watching the events at the water park. Mike |
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