Cross-Country Skiing at the FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships 2017

[hckošice 14,901]

All right, it´s time, Good luck Alena !

[heywoodu 15,174]

Good luck Bruna  

 

Goals:

- Beating Mika

- Staying within 22.2 seconds of Jaque (she asked me "how close do you think I can get to Jaque?" and since I have absolutely no idea, I went for 22.2 and if she manages to do that, I'll take her out to dinner when she visits the Netherlands  )

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I don't see it on the Eurosport Player program, no idea where else to look.. 

 

This Russian stream works for me

 

http://cdn.livetvcdn.net/webplayer.php?t=ifr&c=609816&lang=en&eid=501562&lid=609816&ci=396&si=18

[dcro 10,210]

Why the hell Finland has racers like Julin, Lylynpera and Saapunki in the team.

[Agger 1,663]

Swedish TV shows it! 

[heywoodu 15,174]

By the way, a nice little backstory about Bruna:

 

When she was a mountain bike athlete, she had to retire due to a serious heart condition that made her stop with any sort of hard physical activity. Eventually her coach (Jaqueline Mourão) managed to get an open heart surgery for her, but it took a long time to come back. Always when people were training, or even just playing games, she was told she couldn't participate because it was too dangerous. Only after two years (!) she could finally get back to competition, so she participated in one more mountain bike race to close her MTB-career in a good way instead of in a 'forced' way. She had already gotten to know roller skiing and was doing that in the months before (very, very easy, only looking at the technique because anything harder was too dangerous), and decided to switch to that - but after closing her MTB-career in a good way. 

 

Long story short: that first and last MTB-competition after two years of being forced to not do any kind of strong physical activity was on 23 February 2014. Today, exactly three years later, she is making her debut in a competition with all of the best female cross-country skiers in the world, so it's sort of a really special day

[dcro 10,210]

@heywoodu's nemesis Matveeva starts.

[heywoodu 15,174]

Stream isn't working here

[heywoodu 15,174]

3 minutes ago, Agger said:

Swedish TV shows it! 

What's the name of the channel? Maybe it's somewhere online on a less-than-legal stream or something  

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Stream isn't working here

There are few more listed here. http://livetv.sx/enx/eventinfo/501562_world_championships_lahti/