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Stoneage
As a fellow Swede I don't agree with you, Jeppe. A fifth place is not more impressive than a first.
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Stoneage
I do know about cross country skiing, believe me. Still a first place is a first place and a fifth a fifth. It's really simple mathematics. You do not compete in backgrounds.
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bv
I do understand that cross country skiing is boring unless you live in places where you can ski, or where you have a lot of skiing competitions.
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Stoneage
Some short point here:
5) BV shut off my hockey thread (Junior WC, Canada) and denied us to talk about our IORR competition (no money involved) in the football WC this summer. Quite arbitrary and even mean. So now it's okey with sports threads? Has that anything to do with the fact that Norway will win almost every medal here?
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Stoneage
Do not downgrade Swedish, or Finnish, skiing though. We have a long and proud tradition in that sport.
Even though Norway has surpassed us in the latter decades.
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Micawber
Boring and strange: always the same win over ages. How come?
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bv
I do understand that cross country skiing is boring unless you live in places where you can ski, or where you have a lot of skiing competitions.
And even in places where you can ski, cross country skiing as a world level competition is boring, because of the Norwegian dominance... The dominance will just get stronger and stronger every year and easier it gets for Norway to win, since the rest of the world have started to loose interest and even the once strong country skiing countries, such as Finland, don't invest very much any longer in it in professional sense. But in fifty years this is not a problem anymore for anybody, thanks to climate change.
What goes for Therese Johaug, I am sure she is a Goddess in Norway, but for the rest of the world she is nothing but the face of Norwegian double-standards in doping. Pretty face, for sure.
That's my two cents about these 'World' championships.
- Doxa
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micawber
Boring and strange: always the same win over ages. How come?
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micawber
I care, but I think like Doxa about that. Just the best in doping, that's all.
Same in biathlon etc.
No offense.
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micawber
I care, but I think like Doxa about that. Just the best in doping, that's all.
Same in biathlon etc.
No offense.
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mtaylorNorway has had its doping problems recently.Quote
Stoneage
Never said that. But it's not common in Sweden and Norway who are two leading countries in the sport. That doesn't mean the sport is clean however. But which sport is?
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micawber
Believe me, Norway is not better than Russia, Austria, Germany, Finland, Sweden and all others, just the opposite.
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crawdaddy
I am from U.K. and love most sports.
Not much coverage on freeview TV over here for winter sports ,but I love to see some of it when it is on BBC TV on line, or their Red Button service.
I like seeing (sometimes just highlights )all ski-ing events including ski-jumping, biathlon ,cross country as well as all the downhill events.
Bobsleigh, sledging events,ice hockey , skating and even curling I like to watch on TV.
Some great achievements I have seen in winter sports.