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What a race! Missed the breakaway due to changing streams but my gosh
did the two drop everyone else. Kowalczyk's skis seemed to be gliding a little better on the downhills, giving her moments of rest. And she really made Bjoergen work. In the final meters, I wonder if Bjoergen broke into a stride because her back started hurting too much - sometimes a strider's dilemna - or because of drag DPing. That quick change was the difference. Poor Steira pushed the pace while Marit and Justyna switched skis, and I wonder if that cost her in the last K or so. Salvation for Finland, especially with Kuitunen's skis being bad from the get-go. And quite the race for Evi Sachenbacher and Masako Ishida of Japan. Ishida seems to do well in these classic 30k's. Look forward to the Eurosport English video. Gene On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:54:07 -0700 wrote: http://www.stream2watch.com/watch/7464/1/ |
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Yes, WOW what a race!
I was so happy to see the CRUX of the event. Of course the finish was jump-around-the-room with tension. My wife actually fell down and cried! : ) True! She's not even a big sports fan but she was spellbound and overwrought! But the CRUX was RIVETING! When JK went around Bjoergen at the top of that last hill we could see the TRUTH. JK had FIRE in her eyes and an expression of steel. Bjoergen was starting to loll her eyes and drool. B's breakaway just didn't work. I sure thought that it would! She dropped JK so hard. A minute into the break and B was FLYING up a hill with huge glide in her strides--making the snowmobile gun it!--but JK was bogged down. I thought it was a no-hoper. But JK bridged up! Wow! But that EXPRESSION when she made her move at the last hilltop said it all. --"I'm gonna win that first winter gold for Poland NOW!" ....Then the see-sawing in the final meters...YOW! It wasn't just your usual sprint finish moochfest with someone coming around and stealing it. It went back'n'forth until it seemed that a true VICTORY emerged. It was like a swordfight or something. The gap at the end was tiny but it clearly told the WHOLE STORY! Fun! --JP |
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On Feb 27, 4:02*pm, wrote:
more switches:http://www.atdhe.net/7407/watch-xxi-winter-olympics On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:54:07 -0700 wrote: http://www.stream2watch.com/watch/7464/1/- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - None of these links ever seem to work for me. I just wasted a bunch of time watching curling at the link above. All the others just didn't work. What am I doing wrong? I'd LOVE to watch the last couple km of this race again! --JP |
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Do you have broadband? Mine is something like 8+mbps down. The first
link worked for awhile in FF, then switched to snowcross parallel slalom. The second worked with Opera and FF, but eventually switched to soccer. Finally, after a break during the breakaway, someone posted an alternative that worked through to the end with Opera. NBC also showed much of the race with lots of breaks longer than the race parts. Guess it takes lots of commercials to finance x-c skiing announcers. Gene On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:08:50 -0800 (PST) jeff potter wrote: On Feb 27, 4:02*pm, wrote: more switches:http://www.atdhe.net/7407/watch-xxi-winter-olympics On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:54:07 -0700 wrote: http://www.stream2watch.com/watch/7464/1/- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - None of these links ever seem to work for me. I just wasted a bunch of time watching curling at the link above. All the others just didn't work. What am I doing wrong? I'd LOVE to watch the last couple km of this race again! --JP |
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wrote:
What a race! Missed the breakaway due to changing streams but my gosh did the two drop everyone else. Kowalczyk's skis seemed to be gliding a little better on the downhills, giving her moments of rest. And she Those skis were the real difference between them: When Justyna were behind, she could sit in a tuck and gather in Marit on every downhill, while with the the opposite situation Marit had to work hard just to keep up, even with the followers advantage. really made Bjoergen work. In the final meters, I wonder if Bjoergen broke into a stride because her back started hurting too much - sometimes a strider's dilemna - or because of drag DPing. That quick change was the difference. Poor Steira pushed the pace while Marit and Justyna switched skis, and I wonder if that cost her in the last K or It obviously did, but if she had just sat with the small leader's group, she might have ended up with her 5th fourth place olympic finish. so. Salvation for Finland, especially with Kuitunen's skis being bad from the get-go. And quite the race for Evi Sachenbacher and Masako Ishida of Japan. Ishida seems to do well in these classic 30k's. Look forward to the Eurosport English video. Terje Gene On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:54:07 -0700 wrote: http://www.stream2watch.com/watch/7464/1/ -- - Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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