Cross-Country Skiing Team Free Sprint Full Event - Vancouver 2010 Olympics

[@Bournefort]

What an event. Skate skiing is my favorite Olympic event, summer or winter games.

[@elliottsmith6818]

Got a skate sprint of my own on Saturday at the Michigan High School Nordic Skiing State Championships. Using this to get pumped!

[@SD_Marc]

No THAT is what Winter Olympic sport are about. Awesome.

[@mediocreviddygameplayer]

Marc Arndt *Now *sports

[@SD_Marc]

Haha. Thank you. That's how excited I was.

[@catchingfire6382]

I'm watching it three times a year

[@bobroberts5820]

More or less same here. What a great ski race.

[@Ulleval73]

Five years later and Norway still takes Gold. Amazing sprint by Northug....

[@hwang9640]

you will feel the wonder of cross country at 2018 pyeongchang olympic games! I can't wait to go to Pyeongchang! everyone let's meet at Pyeongchang and watch those beautiful games!

[@curat3d]

So... how was it?

[@ytd5221]

21:53 Incredible how Tscharnke climbs this hill

[@dapaulson1]

How many times have skiers had great climbs and friend themselves? Northug climbed the same hill and blasted by the other hill climbers who had nothing left. Sadly, it looks like Northug will not be in South Korea for this Olympics. I hope I'm wrong.

[@mediocreviddygameplayer]

YTD *21:53

[@catchingfire6382]

I was a country skier in my youth an competing with Tscharnke. He was so focused and working like a horse. 1 year later we went to sports boarding school, don't know how you call it english. From then on he dominated all competitions and we just called him "the beast". I'm so grateful watching this competition again and again and thinking about that we had been on a same level these times. You're the beast. Thanks Tim

[@donerkebab6200]

@@catchingfire6382 Sportgymnasium Oberhof?😉

[@LimesNorrlandicus]

Petter Northug- the best XC skiier of all time. Even better than Dahlie in my opnion.

[@dapaulson1]

The 14 negatives must be the teams that were crushed by Norway. This was an amazing sprint relay. Heija Norge!

[@earthismyhome___________6722]

Fuck you Norway! Dont you see that in some years this will not happen bcs no other team will even want to compet and people will lose their interest in cross country skiing! Rip cxs in the future!

[@erikjonsson9573]

Amazing sprint by Northug. Quad damage indeed.

[@lleimmoen]

Petter is indeed wonderful

[@dnm25]

SO MUCH COWBELL! this was surprisingly very entertaining.

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[@bobroberts5820]

Lmfao I think the other person who responded here was a bot or high off their rocker. Probably both

[@jodasaatte80]

Seeing this just makes me realize how much better the sprint skiers are today now that the sprint has been around for a while and most distance races are about having a sprint finish. Northug barely pushes the tempo here and the others are not even close to challenge him. That was also the case in distance events around this time up to a few years ago, the mediocrity of the others just makes Northugs speed look so incredibly dominant. This level would not be near good enough today with the Klaebos and Pellegrinos etc. The younger generation is so much faster and better technically. Northug is a pioneer for the modern X country skiing, for good and bad.

[@bobroberts5820]

Northug has proven capable of beating Ustiugov/Pellegrino and co before retiring though. I don't think he'd be the favorite against any top 5 2020 sprinter but I also don't think it would be entirely one sided. His raw talent and short term power was truly remarkable and had he been born at the same age as Klaebo I think their sprinting rivalry would be truly great. It's important to remember this is a team sprint, significantly more fatiguing than a normal sprint and consequentially it's harder to put in big digs near the end.

[@LimesNorrlandicus]

27:40 Tscharnke is like yaaaay silver medal and Teichmann is totally destroyed hahahaha.

[@saidnuff4111]

He looks quite pity.

[@justinhansen1328]

Jump Skate examples for further reference 22:15 23:37 25:00 Watch at most 75% speed.

[@catchingfire6382]

The beast

[@LynFantast]

@leafsfan234 There were 12 cross country skiing events. Canada won 1, Norway won 8.

[@paulgoss6786]

Torin.........your still the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@juanbautistagonzalezalvare4366]

The 13 dorsal(US team).

[@eidseter]

The real legend in this event were Øystein "Sausage" Pettersen!

[@MohammadRauf1]

wow that sprint at 25m!!

[@yayabrazie]

Here I am yelling at the computer screen for team USA and Canada 0_0

[@janteloven86]

Petter is just something different

[@ineedaname0608]

@davd1986 yes. i could see both Cologna and Hellner beating him in a individual start but they are still no where near at his level of finish. Maybe if Emil Jonsson was able to stick with the pack in a distance race he could threaten.

[@sweetwater94]

tscharnke epic 21:58

[@MikeHermo]

He's like "I'm going and you can't draft me"

[@江口晴人]

日本人のひと

[@davd1986]

@Tunsberg93 What for?

[@justinhansen1328]

25:43 low tuck skate

[@georgejarvinen7334]

you obviously don't know anything about cross-country skiing, it isn't like running where a sprint is 10 seconds. It takes skill.

[@dapaulson1]

George, That's why Norway won! I agree.

[@helloooo12012]

George Jarvinen. Cross country running isn’t sprinting for 10 seconds, that’s track. Both sports take talent

[@LimesNorrlandicus]

Norwegians tend to make the same joke about themselves :=) I'm from Sweden though and skiing is not quite as popular as in Norway. But still it's a big sport in Sweden as well.

[@Troenderfaar]

I always feel so bad for Teichmann. Seems no matter where he is, Northug always sneaks up from behind and steals his victory

[@dapaulson1]

How do you feel sorry for Teichmann. When Northug lost he would say he was the first or second loser. Winners do not need sympathy and losers certainly don't. Teichmann was simply not in Northug's league.

[@taters1123]

True, but sometimes it's nice to root for the underdog.

[@davd1986]

@ineedaname0608 I agree. I think the two Russian guys, Sedov and Belov will threaten Northug. Right now though, Hellner and Cologna are his main rivals. Teichmann is getting old, Angerer is even older. Swedes and Russians are gonna be Northugs main rivals for years to come, along with Tscharnke and maybe one or two others (Musgrave, perhaps?).

[@dapaulson1]

Clearly your crystal ball was broken. Now that we have history behind us...as history will always be...we know that Northug was the standard by which all skiers of his generation will be measured.

[@barneystinson2124]

You have been doing this for a loooong time

[@saidnuff4111]

@@barneystinson2124 u mean "bleaching" Russian doped athletes? Yeah, this guy is real useful idiot, not just common Kremlin bot as others who protect cheaters.

[@sanitavecbrale3762]

medalists without medals

[@087b]

But look at the german Tim Tscharnke how fast he went in his last lap and this at the age of only 20. He wil be able to threaten Northug in the next years

[@bobroberts5820]

Well that didn't age well.

[@EquuleusPictor]

lol, you completely missed the point. As sprint is a sprint, no matter which sport (although is some sports obviously there's no such thing as a sprint). A sprint is ALWAYS short. Everything above 20-30 seconds cannot be called a sprint. (even if the pace is still extremely fast). Same for skating, cycling etc.

[@dapaulson1]

Any sport can define itself. It doesn't have to define it's own contests in the context of other sports. Especially cross courntry skiing, which is clearly one or two of the toughest sports in the world.

[@hornvin]

Hellner sucks ! he can not beat Northug, Cologna though, he is a tough rival !

[@blackscoped]

I feel like the crowd noise is fake, this shit aint exciting

[@Tunsberg]

@ineedaname0608 Go cry somewhere

[@Tunsberg]

@davd1986 Go cry somewhere

[@EquuleusPictor]

For me an event which takes 3-4 minutes to compete (as it takes for one skier to finish one leg) cannot be called "sprint". It's more akin to a middle distance endurance event, like 1500 m running, say, but definitely not a sprint.

[@ineedaname0608]

Jeg hatter northug. he is the worst. there is just something freaky and unfair about his skiing. Tscharnke is one of my big hopes for beating Northug. Lykke til.

[@ernstchristianleinum2856]

:9

[@ineedaname0608]

@davd1986 yes. i could see both Cologna and Hellner beating him in a individual start but they are still no where near at his level of finish. Maybe if Emil Jonsson was able to stick with the pack in a distance race he could threaten.