Sovereign Lake World Cup report

They may have been on site, but I wasn't authorized to go into the
building where the media announcers were. I certainly hope that if they
were in Canada they weren't stuck in Calgary or Toronto. I suppose we
could always send email to them and ask.

Gene Goldenfeld wrote:
Sometimes they tell you they are on site and indicate the window, but
other times they are in Paris or somewhere. I had the sense he
was in Canada, but not necessarily on site, altho he tried to make it
seem like he had been there for several days. OLN sometimes does
remote bike racing too, if I'm not mistaken.

Gene

"cpella" wrote:

I have to burst your bubble, as mine was. When I asked the directors
if I would be able to meet David Goldstrum, they laughed. Apparently
the Eurosport announcers aren't always on site, even if you think
they are. "The magic of TV" , is what the Finnish director said. They
could be sitting in London for all we know. The CBC guys were there,
but personally I think the CBC coverage of nordic sports is rather
bad. I feel like
throttling the CBC "expert" commentator sometimes. Even if the
Eurosport announcers aren't on site, at least they show the whole race
from beginning to end and are much more knowledgeable about the sport.
He does pronounce Sara in the English way, as if he was saying SARS.
What is funny is the Finnish way of saying much, which sounds like
muts.

Yes this was a very good post. However, I think something I posted must
have been the best post of the year on rsn... I'm sure you can find a
fantastic post by me if you do a search...

Anyway, what a great time you must have had. Maybe you can work your
way into a job for the Olympics in Torino. As for the Norwegian versus
German classic debate... Whatever is the easiest is the one for me. I'm
guessing that would be the German standing taller version.

Maybe this post I just posted is the best post of the year on rsn...

Jay Tegeder
"Keep training, lycra never lies!" JT
p.s. best quote of the year!

hej jay:

hint: set your computer clock up to a time zone east of new York and
then send in the first post of 2006.
That way you can absolutely for sure be sure that you will have had the
best post of 2006!
(like, you know, being the first one to the line (mål) in a pursuit
biathlon.




wrote:

Yes this was a very good post. However, I think something I posted must
have been the best post of the year on rsn... I'm sure you can find a
fantastic post by me if you do a search...

Anyway, what a great time you must have had. Maybe you can work your
way into a job for the Olympics in Torino. As for the Norwegian versus
German classic debate... Whatever is the easiest is the one for me. I'm
guessing that would be the German standing taller version.

Maybe this post I just posted is the best post of the year on rsn...

Jay Tegeder
"Keep training, lycra never lies!" JT
p.s. best quote of the year!

The surprising news is that there were five women in the A Final for the
sprint. In the semi final Sara Renner and Hilde Pedersen tied for second
place. Hilde was in the lead at the finish line, but Sara kicked out her
foot and managed to get it too the line at exactly the same time as Hilde's
lead foot. I saw the finish camera shot and it is dead even. Hilde must be
an old track athlete because she had the trunk of her body across the finish
line ahead of her feet or Sara. The jury took about 10 minutes to declare a
tie based on the photos. This almost never happens.

John Alberg was one of the FIS technical delegates and I heard him muttering
"How many times has she been told to kick out her foot?" (I was the finish
referee and would have given it to Hilde if it wasn't for the finish line
camera. With the camera I could avoid making a decision.)

In any case, Sara was lucky to get to the final because of a technical error
by Hilde and managed to convert the opportunity into a silver medal.

Incidentally, I really like the sprint format. From the qualification round
30 skiers make it to the heats. The first set of heats is 5 heats with six
skiers in each. The two fastest from each of these move on to the semi
final round which is two heats of 5. The first two finishers in each semi
final heat move to the A final and the second two finishers move to the B
final for 5th through 8th places. The heats of 6 are seeded so that all but
the fastest skiers are quickly eliminated.

Scott

"Terje Mathisen" wrote in message
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JP(CA) wrote:

It took several hours for Sovereign Lake World Cup to post on their
website. Here it is for the Men and Women Sprint:

Men:
1 Final A HETLAND Tor Arne NOR
2 Final A LIND Bjoern SWE
3 Final A HATTESTAD Ola Vigen NOR
4 Final A OESTBERG Mikael SWE

Women:
1 Final A SCOTT Beckie CAN
2 Final A KUENZEL Claudia GER
3 Final A RENNER Sara CAN
4 Final A HENKEL Manuela GER
5 Final A PEDERSEN Hilde G. NOR

I have to cheer for N.America. Way to go Beckie!

Indeed!

The big news here was of course the way Marit B never made it to the
final. :-(

Hilde GP being the best norwegian at 40 years old is pretty amazing
though!

Terje

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