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And a 6th for Cyr/McKeever, as well 

6th for  Mackie/Gagnon, best Canadian finish in women's cross country skiing since Turin 2006 

What a race by Bruna!! Beat Duda by 14s, wow.
 
21st is fantastic, too bad Duda was too slow today, top20 gives a nice financial bonus
 

What a race by Bruna!! Beat Duda by 14s, wow.
 
21st is fantastic, too bad Duda was too slow today, top20 gives a nice financial bonus
 

What a race by Bruna!! Beat Duda by 14s, wow.
 
21st is fantastic, too bad Duda was too slow today, top20 gives a nice financial bonus
 

And messing with Brazil’s time, she was absolutely not really 12th. Certainly slower than Croatia.

And messing with Brazil’s time, she was absolutely not really 12th. Certainly slower than Croatia.

By car it's around 40 minutes from Ora, I doubt it will take much longer by bus (that shouldn't stop everywhere). Who knows, maybe see you somewhere at the entrance  (I doubt we are easy to miss with our Brazil jackets)

Nah, she shown as DNS before that already. Also saw her run past while waiting for the first bus
 

Could not see if it was an athlete, but someone was just stretchered out of the athlete preparation area…

This was cool to see! Certainly cheered for Hurajt for you
 

Free advice, never go to Antholz. Peak Italian chaos; missed the first 2 shoots due to in (and a thousand others with me).
 
You can not sell more tickets than there are places.

Right, a billion police cars can just race past the traffic hell in Antholz
 
 

I'm going by train. Only about 15 minutes from Bolzano to Ora from where the shuttles go.

In Milan the dining area is amazingly big and has so many options. In the more isolated locations it's decent as well, but nothing spectacular from what I've heard and seen. General service seems to be fine.

Another example of the somewhat chaotic organization: mascots are already nearly sold out
 
We thought athletes would get one, but that's not the case. So we tried to find one, even in the Olympic 'village'/accomodation, but after not taking the opportunity on day one (ridiculous prices), we now may have missed out on one...

My experiences so far are that many details feel....unorganized  
 
Definitely 10/10 for friendliness in general, but it also feels somewhat chaotic at times.

I think you're the one person who doesn't like this, besides that, he is very popular and liked all around the speed skating world luckily  
 
Awesome podium today!

I think you're the one person who doesn't like this, besides that, he is very popular and liked all around the speed skating world luckily  
 
Awesome podium today!

@heywoodu

I am headed home now. I throughly enjoyed my time in Milan! The arenas were full and packed with supporters.
 
However, I will say these were not well organized games behind the scenes and left a lot to be desired. 
 
Ciao Milan!

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.
 
 

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!

@Agger@heywooduPolish media also suggest Dawson is out.

Spontanity won. I'm on my way!