Classic sprints in Trondheim: Simply amazing!

I have just watched all the final races from Trondheim, in order to see
if Petter Northug could (for the first time in his life) qualify for the
finals and thereby gains some points in his race to overtake Cologna and
grab the overall world cup trophy.

The swiss racer also hasn't been a classic sprinter, but today he
managed to get the 3rd best qualification time, beaten by Petter by just
0.07 seconds.

I.e. from never getting to the top 30 to 2nd best!

In the quarter finals they both managed to qualify, meeting up in the
semis, where Petter was in the top two and Dario was 0.2 seconds back
but qualified on time.

In the finals Mr Sprint this year, Ola Vigen Hattestad once again showed
his mettle, winning on the final stretch, but Petter was next and the
Dario came 5th.

The difference means that Petter gained 35 points, so about 50 points
separate them before the final events, including a 50k classic mass
start, with 2x25 points for intermediate sprints.

THis will be an exciting finish to the season!

Terje
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- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

awesome !! can't wait to see this torrent ... or universalsports.com ??

JKal.

-8C and 100cm of snow out my door.


"Terje Mathisen" "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote in message
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I have just watched all the final races from Trondheim, in order to see if
Petter Northug could (for the first time in his life) qualify for the
finals and thereby gains some points in his race to overtake Cologna and
grab the overall world cup trophy.

The swiss racer also hasn't been a classic sprinter, but today he managed
to get the 3rd best qualification time, beaten by Petter by just 0.07
seconds.

I.e. from never getting to the top 30 to 2nd best!

In the quarter finals they both managed to qualify, meeting up in the
semis, where Petter was in the top two and Dario was 0.2 seconds back but
qualified on time.

In the finals Mr Sprint this year, Ola Vigen Hattestad once again showed
his mettle, winning on the final stretch, but Petter was next and the
Dario came 5th.

The difference means that Petter gained 35 points, so about 50 points
separate them before the final events, including a 50k classic mass start,
with 2x25 points for intermediate sprints.

THis will be an exciting finish to the season!

Terje
--
- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

answering my own question and watching now !!!

http://www.universalsports.com/media...FILE_ID=387770


"Jeff and Stephanie Kalember" wrote in message
...
awesome !! can't wait to see this torrent ... or universalsports.com ??

JKal.

-8C and 100cm of snow out my door.


"Terje Mathisen" "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote in message
...
I have just watched all the final races from Trondheim, in order to see if
Petter Northug could (for the first time in his life) qualify for the
finals and thereby gains some points in his race to overtake Cologna and
grab the overall world cup trophy.

The swiss racer also hasn't been a classic sprinter, but today he managed
to get the 3rd best qualification time, beaten by Petter by just 0.07
seconds.

I.e. from never getting to the top 30 to 2nd best!

In the quarter finals they both managed to qualify, meeting up in the
semis, where Petter was in the top two and Dario was 0.2 seconds back but
qualified on time.

In the finals Mr Sprint this year, Ola Vigen Hattestad once again showed
his mettle, winning on the final stretch, but Petter was next and the
Dario came 5th.

The difference means that Petter gained 35 points, so about 50 points
separate them before the final events, including a 50k classic mass
start, with 2x25 points for intermediate sprints.

THis will be an exciting finish to the season!

Terje
--
- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

Debate and poll about Northug going on over at
http://fasterskier.com/2009/03/is-pe...true-champion/



Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote:

I have just watched all the final races from Trondheim, in order to see
if Petter Northug could (for the first time in his life) qualify for the
finals and thereby gains some points in his race to overtake Cologna and
grab the overall world cup trophy.

The swiss racer also hasn't been a classic sprinter, but today he
managed to get the 3rd best qualification time, beaten by Petter by just
0.07 seconds.

I.e. from never getting to the top 30 to 2nd best!

In the quarter finals they both managed to qualify, meeting up in the
semis, where Petter was in the top two and Dario was 0.2 seconds back
but qualified on time.

In the finals Mr Sprint this year, Ola Vigen Hattestad once again showed
his mettle, winning on the final stretch, but Petter was next and the
Dario came 5th.

The difference means that Petter gained 35 points, so about 50 points
separate them before the final events, including a 50k classic mass
start, with 2x25 points for intermediate sprints.

THis will be an exciting finish to the season!

Terje
--
- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

"Jeff and Stephanie Kalember" skrev i melding
...
answering my own question and watching now !!!

http://www.universalsports.com/media...FILE_ID=387770


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Terje Henriksen
Kirkenes

On Mar 12, 6:42*pm, Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote

I have just watched all the final races from Trondheim, in order to see
if Petter Northug could (for the first time in his life) qualify for the
finals and thereby gains some points in his race to overtake Cologna and
grab the overall world cup trophy.

He did indeed - but I thought this thread would've been about Yuichi
Onda and Masako Ishida (and maybe about their Finno-Austrian service
team):-)


Andeed

anders wrote:
On Mar 12, 6:42 pm, Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote

I have just watched all the final races from Trondheim, in order to see
if Petter Northug could (for the first time in his life) qualify for the
finals and thereby gains some points in his race to overtake Cologna and
grab the overall world cup trophy.

He did indeed - but I thought this thread would've been about Yuichi

No, you didn't. :-)

Onda and Masako Ishida (and maybe about their Finno-Austrian service
team):-)

That was indeed _very_ impressive, I have never before seen skiers from
a small (xc-wise) nation have skis that totally outperformed everyone else.

Terje

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- Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"