Cross-Country Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

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3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Wow  Anna Pryce is going top 30!

First  over performance of the games. 

[hckošice 16,203]

START LIST of the M 10km Freestyle

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Men's Sprint Classic final.  Norway & USA cheated apparently? 
Our team only found out about it after 48 hours had passed...

Both with maintaining the skiis between heats leading to the final.

GOD DAMN IT FIS


Here's a story in finnish...
https://yle.fi/a/74-20210021

[mrv86 3,264]

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.

 

Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 

 

[heywoodu 16,372]

16 hours ago, Josh said:

What happened? Do you know?

Apparently she became unwell. Other rumours said a fall, but seemed like she became unwell due to hyperventilation (which could well be a result of hearing the first split time and hearing she was behind Bruna, her first uphill already looked weaker than that of most others...).

 

I came across her family and asked her brother if she's ok, he seemed to mostly suggest she is.

[Josh 12,585]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Apparently she became unwell. Other rumours said a fall, but seemed like she became unwell due to hyperventilation (which could well be a result of hearing the first split time and hearing she was behind Bruna, her first uphill already looked weaker than that of most others...).

 

I came across her family and asked her brother if she's ok, he seemed to mostly suggest she is.

Oh, I didn't know that, I'm glad she's doing okay 

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1 minute ago, Josh said:

Oh, I didn't know that, I'm glad she's doing okay 

Me too, although I haven't heard if she has returned to the Olympic accomodation or stayed away now. Anyhow, we need her to at least be present for the team sprint on 18 February.

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4 hours ago, mrv86 said:

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.

 

Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 

 

Nothing sad about it at all, Regina was awesome yesterday and her finish was clearly full of happiness  

 

Like Bruna said yesterday, Regina qualifying for the Olympics was one of the highlights of the entire qualifying period. For so many years she had been ridiculed and laughed at by athletes even from small countries, because 'her technique is bad', 'she is never gonna make it' and so on. Then in Trondheim last year she basically gave a big fuck you to all of them and qualified fair and square with an amazing race  

 

 Bruna,   Sami and Regina often hang out together in the Olympic accomodation, eat together, have fun together and so on, and they had made a deal together that they would wait for each other at the finish, no matter if there was 5 minutes or 50 minutes between their finishing times  

 

I don't know if it was possible to hear, but when Regina finished, Bruna was yelling at her "You are an Olympian! You are an Olympian!!!"  

 

And then coincidence got massive: when we (my dad and sister and Bruna's parents) were on the way back to the car, we ran into some people with Regina Martinez caps and such (there were a few of these groups), got talking to them.....turns out it was Regina's mother  My dad and her spent a bit of time connecting their phones to share some photos he had (or a video of her finish, not sure), she was very happy with it!

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Oh and last bit of experience from yesterday: we were yelling "Go Sami! Gooo Sami!!" whenever  Samaneh Beyrami passed us and in the first lap, when she passed us at the uphill and we were screaming for her, she actually looked up for a second and had this huge smile, that was just awesome  

 

Plus I noticed that after we had been yelling for certain athletes for a while, other people around us started cheering for them too, including for Sami   Unsurprisingly I didn't really see Iranian flags among the spectators, but this way at least she had some nice support during her whole race basically @MHSN  

[heywoodu 16,372]

This photo btw, Delia

 

That pain in Bruna's face is real, she said her legs felt as if her bones were about to simply snap in half but she outright refused to stop the race. She has had DNF's in the past two seasons, but that was just not going to happen in this one. No way.

 

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