Any metric where US skiers are "up there"?

I'm wondering if there are any metrics by which US skiers rank up at
the top or at it. You know, like in fitness tests of any type (sit-ups,
push-ups, dips, broad jump), in VO2-Max, and in any other sports that
skiers tend to do, like running, cycling, inline, heck even
rollerskiing. Are any of our skiers known to be "the dude to beat"? I'd
think that Carl might be a better mtbiker than other skiers but I don't
know where he's placed in world mtbike events---for all I know there
are Norgie skiers who ride a faster bike. Who what about just plain
killer workouts. If we ruled SOMEWHERE it would seem to give hope.
Like, man, Andy hasn't broken thru on skis yet but NO ONE can touch
him in chin-ups. --JP

How do we do at training camp or glacier soccer matches or basketball
games? C'mon, are we in there? --JP

Sorry, Jeff, skiing is what they do for living, so everything is else
is irrelevant. It's like when I suck in ski races my wife says: well,
but you're smart. Yeah right. When I suck at work, too, she says the
reciprocal thing.

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Sorry, Jeff, skiing is what they do for living, so everything is else
is irrelevant. It's like when I suck in ski races my wife says: well,
but you're smart. Yeah right. When I suck at work, too, she says the
reciprocal thing.

Precisely. However, this begs the obvious question - what do THEIR
wives/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends say to them to make them feel
better after they go over to Europe, and, well......um.......SUCK?!?

bt

what do THEIR
wives/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends say to them to make them feel
better after they go over to Europe, and, well......um.......SUCK?!?

.... that Eurpeans are all on drugs?

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... that Eurpeans are all on drugs?

Gee wiz, Andrey, I thought I was responsible for throwing the firebombs
into the newsgroup. I tried that one (the euro drug thing) a while
back and got tarred and feathered for it. However, since traffic on
R.S.N. usually peters out after the Birkie, you might get off easy....
:-)

bt

I got caught into your trap: the husband/wife thing was too provocative.

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... that Eurpeans are all on drugs?


Gee wiz, Andrey, I thought I was responsible for throwing the firebombs
into the newsgroup. I tried that one (the euro drug thing) a while
back and got tarred and feathered for it. However, since traffic on
R.S.N. usually peters out after the Birkie, you might get off easy....

Marit Bjørgen has been tested something like 55 times during the last
year, with more than half of those tests being unannounced/in-training
tests.

I.e. the kind you _cannot_ plan for.

If you believe it is possible to plan for (and find!) a one-month
interval during such a period where you could safely use drugs, then you
should invest in your favourite lottery instead of doing xc skiing. :-)

Seriously, I believe MB won everything this year 'simply' due to two things:

a) Training more than anyone else

b) Being born with genes allowing (a) without breaking apart.

Terje

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

I'm also curious about these metrics just to see if our folks are
better athletes at ANYTHING. If those folks overseas mop us up in
trainings, in biking, in running, in push-ups, well, darn I can see why
they'd kick us in skiing. But if some of our skiers are known to be
untouchable on the bike or on a trail run or in the 440 dash or even in
dips...then I'd be a little more hopeful, like now all we have to do is
shift this atheticism on over to the boards... It's corny I know but I
look for hope wherever I can. --JP

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I'm also curious about these metrics just to see if our folks are
better athletes at ANYTHING. If those folks overseas mop us up in
trainings, in biking, in running, in push-ups, well, darn I can see
why
they'd kick us in skiing. But if some of our skiers are known to be
untouchable on the bike or on a trail run or in the 440 dash or even
in
dips...then I'd be a little more hopeful, like now all we have to do
is
shift this atheticism on over to the boards... It's corny I know but
I
look for hope wherever I can. --JP

OK Newell jams in the air. He can Half Pipe on nordic racing skis. He
gets freestyle air. He flips. That rocks. And someday soon, we all
hope, he will truly contest for the podium on a regular basis in World
Cup sprints because he's exceptional at that too.