Falun relays

NRK streamed the men's relay with only one early stop. 5F at start,
afternoon spring condtions. After Joiner and Vylegzhanin broke open
the pack, Petter Northug crossed the gap and outsprinted them. The US
was 10:40 mins back. Kris Freeman had relatively the best leg skating,
losing 1:13. Chris Cook came into the stadium with the pack at 5k on
the opening leg, but ended up nearly 2 mins back. Wonder what happened
there. Breaking the results down, the winners skied at 6.11 m/sec
average, the US at 5.56 m/sec. Classical: 5.65 vs. 5.10 m/s; Skate:
6.65 vs. 6.12 m/s.

rm

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NRK streamed the men's relay with only one early stop. 5F at start,
afternoon spring condtions. After Joiner and Vylegzhanin broke open
the pack, Petter Northug crossed the gap and outsprinted them. The US
was 10:40 mins back. Kris Freeman had relatively the best leg skating,
losing 1:13. Chris Cook came into the stadium with the pack at 5k on
the opening leg, but ended up nearly 2 mins back. Wonder what happened
there. Breaking the results down, the winners skied at 6.11 m/sec
average, the US at 5.56 m/sec. Classical: 5.65 vs. 5.10 m/s; Skate:
6.65 vs. 6.12 m/s.

Petter fell halfway into the first 5 k, but caught up within a K or so.
He then mostly stayed at the very end of the 8-man pack, but did some
seemingly unmotivated moving around as well, before he finally had to
attack to reel in the two teams that had gapped the rest on the final
700m ascent of the 'Murder Hill'. He caught up, but stayed in third
position all the way into the final straight, where he first tried to
choose the left-end lane, was blocked there, then had to move all the
way to the right before finally finding an opening.

At that point it made it seem _almost_ easy, but he's definitely showing
some signs of tiredness now.

Terje

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"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

Yes, depsite their tiredness, the Germans had very good times too -
http://www.fasterskier.com/racing4198.html


Terje Mathisen wrote:

Petter fell halfway into the first 5 k, but caught up within a K or

At that point it made it seem _almost_ easy, but he's definitely
showing some signs of tiredness now.

Terje

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Yes, depsite their tiredness, the Germans had very good times too -
http://www.fasterskier.com/racing4198.html




Ha ha ha.