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Tour de Ski Stage 7
The Tour de Ski website has some good accounts of the races today:
men's - http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/l...ml?actu_id=240 women's - http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/l...ml?actu_id=239 This bit was interesting: "Reportedly skiing on a pair of "micro-skis" without grip wax, Bauer extended his overall lead to 1:50 ahead of Tord Asle Gjerdalen (NOR) and 2:23 ahead of Pietro Piller Cottrer (ITA)." Anybody know more about this setup? "Micro-skis"? Did he double-pole the entire thing? And what was with the huge gap he allowed to build up in the first 2km - was there a crash up front at the start? Christopher |
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tassava wrote:
The Tour de Ski website has some good accounts of the races today: men's - http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/l...ml?actu_id=240 women's - http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/l...ml?actu_id=239 This bit was interesting: "Reportedly skiing on a pair of "micro-skis" without grip wax, Bauer extended his overall lead to 1:50 ahead of Tord Asle Gjerdalen (NOR) and 2:23 ahead of Pietro Piller Cottrer (ITA)." Anybody know more about this setup? "Micro-skis"? Did he double-pole the entire thing? And what was with the huge gap he allowed to build up in the first 2km - was there a crash up front at the start? Bauer had problems with icing on the first lap, he had to ski out of the track and over some spruce branches placed there by the coaches, in an effort to get rid of the buildup. On the later stages he was _very_ impressive, winning more sprint prices (bonus seconds) than anyone else. Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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Tour de Ski Stage 7
It was snowing a bunch. I didn't see the men's race, but many of the
women were scraping the buildup off at the start and just about everyone was h-boning the hills the second time around. Temps at the start were air temp +1.5 and snow -1C. I wonder the same thing about that phrase. Not sure if it means he was using Fischer Zeros or a shorter ski or ? No way anyone could pull a Kris Freeman (Davos) and survive in this crowd. RM tassava wrote: The Tour de Ski website has some good accounts of the races today: men's - http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/l...ml?actu_id=240 women's - http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/l...ml?actu_id=239 This bit was interesting: "Reportedly skiing on a pair of "micro-skis" without grip wax, Bauer extended his overall lead to 1:50 ahead of Tord Asle Gjerdalen (NOR) and 2:23 ahead of Pietro Piller Cottrer (ITA)." Anybody know more about this setup? "Micro-skis"? Did he double-pole the entire thing? And what was with the huge gap he allowed to build up in the first 2km - was there a crash up front at the start? Christopher |
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Tour de Ski Stage 7
Though they don't shed any light on the ski situation, these Swedish-
TV videos are pretty good: women's mass-start http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=1015894 men's mass-start http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=1015966 (long clip: last 1.7km of the race) Christopher On Jan 5, 2:43 pm, wrote: It was snowing a bunch. I didn't see the men's race, but many of the women were scraping the buildup off at the start and just about everyone was h-boning the hills the second time around. Temps at the start were air temp +1.5 and snow -1C. I wonder the same thing about that phrase. Not sure if it means he was using Fischer Zeros or a shorter ski or ? No way anyone could pull a Kris Freeman (Davos) and survive in this crowd. RM tassava wrote: The Tour de Ski website has some good accounts of the races today: men's -http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/latest-news.html?actu_id=240 women's -http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/latest-news.html?actu_id=239 This bit was interesting: "Reportedly skiing on a pair of "micro-skis" without grip wax, Bauer extended his overall lead to 1:50 ahead of Tord Asle Gjerdalen (NOR) and 2:23 ahead of Pietro Piller Cottrer (ITA)." Anybody know more about this setup? "Micro-skis"? Did he double-pole the entire thing? And what was with the huge gap he allowed to build up in the first 2km - was there a crash up front at the start? Christopher |
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tassava wrote:
Anybody know more about this setup? "Micro-skis"? Did he double-pole the entire thing? And what was with the huge gap he allowed to build up in the first 2km - was there a crash up front at the start? Christopher There is grip structure in ski bases. It is often a good choice even for elite racers when temperature is around 0C. Principle is explained here. http://www.karhuskiing.com/?page=Pro...hp=273&cCat=91 |
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