Incredible Sportsmanship In The Cross Country Skiing - Torino 2006 Winter Olympics

[@wesleyreeves]

Amazing that the Norwegian coach was so quick to respond. Never thinking of anything else but simply helping. Pure class

[@DJDevon3]

2006 Ladies Team Sprint Relay. At 1:04 the Canadian (wearing a black cap) fighting for the lead snaps her left pole dropping her to 4th within seconds. Norwegian coach runs in and hands her another pole putting her right back into the race. 1:41 Canadian rallied back to 1st for her exchange! Team Sweden rallied back from 3rd on the final turn to win Gold by 0.6 seconds.

[@skliu]

Pure class by the Norwegians, hats off guys from a Canadian.

[@rosemaryvalentine2320]

Also for his sportsmanship, Canadian awarded him 5 tons of Canadian maple syrup as a show of gratitude.

[@Catcrumbs]

The video really ought to describe what was happening more clearly. I wouldn't have spotted anything noteworthy if not for the comments.

[@fluentinsilence]

Start watching from 1:00; a man in a white beanie runs up to her to hand her a pole.

[@DJoy221]

I love seeing these types of moments at the Olympics! It makes my heart happy 😊

[@michelthibodeau3474]

Today, Canada repaid its debt in Sochi when Canada’s head cross-country ski coach Justin Wadsworth rushed to help a Russian skier after the athlete crashed in the semi-final of the men’s freestyle sprint and broke one of his skis.

[@peterjohnson617]

great stuff.......passed through that town about a decade before the Olympics what a beautiful place......this is what sports should be like,thank you.

[@andikaonyoutube]

this is exactly what I love from the olympics!

[@toivokoivukoski7060]

A solid, stand-out expression of the human spirit. Charity allows for the best of the human condition. We have all had our moments of something breaking, and it would be a fine thing if there were a person standing trail-side to help there.

[@Euthymia]

When the skier that was just in first place ahead of your team's skier in second breaks her pole and you run over yelling to loan her a pole so she can get back in the race....yeah, that's doing it right. I want to be that guy.

[@hamie58]

I saw another video that mention this and they said when he was asked why he did it he said 'because it isn't a competition unless it's fair'.

[@davd1986]

The coach isn't Canadian, he's American. Yes, he coached the Canadians in Sochi, but he's American.

[@tomcurran5412]

This beautiful moment really needs some more explanation. I only understood it after reading through the comments.

[@oranienbaum]

Настоящий спортивный поступок❤

[@museluvr]

.. and this is what the games are all about.. its beautiful spirit!

[@summerpark6082]

What a beautiful scene!!

[@password45671]

Most sportsmanship like moment I think of these games. Norway finished fourth in this event

[@hithereroger]

The music is so wonderful!

[@jennytran2202]

Yeah. It sounds like I am watching Frozen and Winter Olympic at the same time😄

[@IanSinclairTaiChi]

Just after the 1:00 mark.

[@RaspberryRockOffGridCabin]

Thanks. Watched it 5 times still hard to make out what's going on.

[@penguinpie5056]

this means a lot when you consider this is a sport of national pride for norwegians

[@azorian888]

Wow taking baby steps the humare to love one another !

[@rakosnicheck]

That's the reason Norwegians are where they are - At the top!

[@anderlundberg9297]

SWEDEN 1 CANADA 2 FINNLAND3 - and NORWAYThey were Number 4 ? - why are you talking about the Top -

[@Empericalmonkey]

Pure class

[@nategwinn]

Congrats and Thank you. Karma always ensures that in one way, shape or form that the kind act is passed on. Today, a Canadian coach replaced a broken ski for a Russian to finish the race. Although, out of medal contention.....it is what brings us together as a human race as a whole....To be fair and loving to each other.... With that said....Congrats to the Norwegian team on a great medal haul today at Sochi! It all seems fitting given the circumstance. :D

[@guittadabe5214]

That act did more for cross-country diplomacy than meetings with a bunch of politicians!

[@yuecui1758]

really need patience to notice

[@anderlundberg9297]

The Ladies Team Sprint of SWEDEN winning the Olympic Gold and then the Men from SWEDEN also wasvinning the GOLD

[@mercuryfever392]

At what point did the Norwegian coach step in??

[@Kyrelel]

+Katie Pfeiffer At the 1:00 mark. Video time, not race time.

[@RayLabs]

Just another example of the poor coverage of Nordic events from the Olympic channel.

[@LightSnowOvernight]

and a nice finish to Beckie Scott's career..

[@rockqueen13]

anyone know the song playing in the background?

[@jackalexander102]

NOISE

[@めめ-s5h]

素敵！

[@bmseven28]

can someone explain what happened?

[@muralamoomum8287]

bm seven i am sure if you really wanted to know..you know by now (your comment is from 10months ago :) ) but I will answer anyway... Sara Renner's ski pole broke...you really cant see it unless you watch and re watch the video (about the 1min mark on the video) But if you listen really carefully you can hear someone yelling Sara! Sara! it was the coach for the norway team,who gave up a pole to her. but if I read was right by giving Sara the pole he kinda cost his team a medal (I could be wrong) its just pure sportsmanship

[@hollypietrzak5214]

Canada used to be so good in mid 2000s?

[@legitvazquez1362]

the olynpics champship was AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mark2talk2u]

This video is just a recap of a race. Not clear from the video where the sportsmanship was. Perhaps someone helped someone along the way?/. Editing is badly needed.

[@mark2talk2u]

Please tell us where in the 3 min video the pole switch happened. Not everyone is a ski expert.

[@MotRi1986]

mark2talk2u around one minute mark, it kinda hard to see her breaking her pole but a few seconds later you hear somone shouting "Sara, Sara!!". That was a Norwegian coach giving one of his spare pole to probably the biggest opponent of the Norwegian skiers. Edit of for crying out loud this ended up with a Swedish gold, no wonder I have forgot about this race.

[@2520_nonius]

RESPECT　from japan

[@kiwinz98]

the Norwegians are always fair

[@gmortimer20031]

Is it against the rules for a team to carry spares? Poor preparation, if so. But of course the expected sportsmanship of two great nations. Before we became obsessed with winning everything (and this is, in my opinion a danger signal) we British were very much that way too... we even once had a reputation for it.

[@MotRi1986]

What exactly do you mean? For the skiers it self is very inconvenient to carry extra poles. For the support teams this is a key task during a race since accidents like this happens all the time. It kinda is expected to help each other out since you can't really have people every ten meters ready with a spare pole.

[@gmortimer20031]

Thanks, no I wasn't expecting the skiers to carry the kit, and it makes sense for the support teams to pool resources. So rather than being an outstanding display of sportsmanship, was this just accepted protocol?

[@MotRi1986]

@@gmortimer20031 it was a bit of both, the remarkable here is that the Norwegian coach reacted almost instantly. Normally when this happens at this stage of the race you are done, even if it just take 15 seconds to get a new pole your opponents have more than enough time to launch an attack.

[@GnrlDisarray0]

Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!

[@ВоронцовИлья]

Misic please

[@名前ない-l1w]

日本人〜！

[@raymondpuno7571]

wtf

[@bc5664]

Second comment

[@monsterwicker]

God bless you all Praise the lord Jesus is with us -amen

[@evangilchrestfilms]

Underwhelming.