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

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

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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

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

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