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

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Just now, heywoodu said:

Julius Yego learned javelin throwing through watching YouTube videos and became world champion, come on, 'there are no courses' is no excuse  

 

The expenses are the harder part then, but if I were you I'd seriously consider putting a few dollars and/or euros aside each month so you can buy yourself some decent equipment when you're back in Europe  

That is true! Great inspiration, he is. Not necessarily just sportswise.

If possible, I do have quite a bit in savings, though that's mostly going towards university or travel. There should definitely be some things I can put aside, we'll have to wait and see. I do plan to get to a place with snow eventually, hopefully America or Europe for college.

Have you ever thought about skiing? Do you actually have ties to Brazil? Or are you just a big fan

 

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

I think just the regular roller skates and poles can do a trick. At least in the early stages.

Good point  Problem with that though is I'd rather buy one thing and stick with it as much as possible. Money is quite limited, and I don't own rollerskates of my own.

Also good luck learning classic technique like that... oh god. Maybe I can become like the Montenegrins and only ski freestyle lol

Guess for now I'll just go to the gym, I have a membership which is paid for anyway. 

 

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1 minute ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

That is true! Great inspiration, he is. Not necessarily just sportswise.

If possible, I do have quite a bit in savings, though that's mostly going towards university or travel. There should definitely be some things I can put aside, we'll have to wait and see. I do plan to get to a place with snow eventually, hopefully America or Europe for college.

Have you ever thought about skiing? Do you actually have ties to Brazil? Or are you just a big fan

 

 

If I stand on ski, they're probably gonna break  (not seriously, but you get the point)

 

I have no ties to Brazil. On the biggest Dutch forum at every Olympics we have a thread where we support small or exotic nations (like I opened here for the 2016 Olympics), with 2010 being the first time I was on the forum at the Olympics. Since my then girlfriend is Brazilian, I chose Brazil and since then I've been sort of following their winter athletes  

 

Then in 2014 obviously I chose Brazil again and had some contact with Leandro Ribela, a year later I wrote an article about him and his project which he put on his Facebook page, followed by a certain Bruna (who was at the Raubichi biathlon YJWCH at that time, her first ever international competition) sending me a message on Facebook asking if I'm an athlete (haha) or a fan  It all got more and more from there

 

 

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4 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Good point  Problem with that though is I'd rather buy one thing and stick with it as much as possible. Money is quite limited, and I don't own rollerskates of my own.

Also good luck learning classic technique like that... oh god. Maybe I can become like the Montenegrins and only ski freestyle lol

Guess for now I'll just go to the gym, I have a membership which is paid for anyway. 

 

Classic technique can most definitely be learned on rollerskis  

 

 

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Just now, heywoodu said:

Classic technique can most definitely be learned on rollerskis  

 

 

I meant on rollerskates  

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3 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Good point  Problem with that though is I'd rather buy one thing and stick with it as much as possible. Money is quite limited, and I don't own rollerskates of my own.

Also good luck learning classic technique like that... oh god. Maybe I can become like the Montenegrins and only ski freestyle lol

Guess for now I'll just go to the gym, I have a membership which is paid for anyway. 

 

 

Ah, I see. I actually tried that with my own roller skates few years ago, and I think I learned the skating technique rather well, considering that I used some odd wooden poles.

 

I even tried the classic technique with that.

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2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Ah, I see. I actually tried that with my own roller skates few years ago, and I think I learned the skating technique rather well, considering that I used some odd wooden poles.

 

I even tried the classic technique with that.

Hahaha

Well if I do end up staying in NZ then rollerskates it is lol

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Bjoergen and Parmakoski fighting for the skiathlon gold, Kalla on her way to bronze since Weng has had to let her go. 1.5-2km to go

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Bjoergen trolls her way to another gold.

 

For how long does she plan to do this? Another 10 years?

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

Bjoergen trolls her way to another gold.

 

For how long does she plan to do this? Another 10 years?

What else could you expect?

Good result from Berouskova, 27th place, WC points.