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I got that, I just don't understand what it means
That Britain or is that Scotland; don't want to upset anyone; is shit at Skiing events and we haven't had a win since Eddie didn't win. So now we have something to be proud about our Skiers.
What size were his skis? 26,27.5 or 29?
The left one was 26 and the right one 29. Makes going round corners easier as the courses always go anti-clockwise. Apparently, this year some are going for two 27.5 as some form of compromise. I wonder if it will catch on.
Obviously the opposite way round if skiing in the S hemisphere.
neal, perhaps you are too young to remember our past English British winter sports glories?
I skied with Eddie a couple of times 😉
I just don't understand what they are getting at.
Eddie was a household name "at the time" he was in all the papers, on the news, everyone knew who he was.
I can't translate, but is it irony? Eddie made the headlines for coming last (heroically). Andrew, does the best of British, and beats them on their home turf and no one knows about it/who he is??
(As they used to say on Tomorrow's World) that is until now!!!
Eddie was a household name "at the time" he was in all the papers, on the news, everyone knew who he was.
Yup that's exactly it he was our skiing hero and now we have a new one, forgetting the female ski jumper of course.
I'll have one last try before leaving you to your perspective which doesn't extend beyond these shores...
[quote=loddrik]But this is about coverage and recognition in this, his home country isn't it?
Actually no, it's not. What I wrote was "this is quite a big thing" which was actually remarkably low key of me. I didn't suggest it was a big thing in the UK, and what I was alluding to is that it's quite a big thing in the world of sport. XC skiing being a vary major sport outside these shores - big enough to have 6 times as many Olympic medals as mountain biking, more than double that if you include biathlon and nordic combined (to make a total more than all cycling disciplines together). It's the national sport in Norway. Biathlon regularly gets higher TV viewing figures in Germany than football. In global terms it's a far more major sport than mountain biking, let alone DH MTB. Your parochial views aren't really wanted here.
Regarding the cost, XC skiing is actually a lot cheaper to do than alpine skiing. What's more you can and plenty of people do train for it in this country using roller skis - good enough training for a bimbling amateur like me to finish well in the top half of a ski marathon despite not having been on snow for almost a year until a couple of days before. Lots of people taking that up who've never been on snow - though I suppose you're probably right about it not being possible in Liverpool as they'd steal your wheels.
neal - title is google auto-translate of Norwegian headline - I thought it amusing and likely to get more people clicking than if I wrote something more bland. I think a better translation is 'Now they can forget "Eddie the Eagle"' - the point being that he is our most famous skier, and the suggestion being that might be about to change.
The win is covered in the Guardian [url= http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jan/17/andrew-musgrave-winter-olympics-win-norway ]link[/url]
FWIW I used to ski with a company run by an ex-Marine who skied for GB at the Sarajevo games, he was reserve for DH but skied the xc as he had trained for that too. I was surprised at how technical it was (pre skating) the wax on skis was built up in layers according to the course gradients uphill/flat/downhill and designed to wear off to show correct layer at correct time. As per DH the wax used was selected on temperature of snow and quite sensitive.
As for the trolls saying you cannot do it in UK a mate of mine trained for some Scandinavian dawn to dusk race pretty much exclusively on roller skis here in the UK. He'd never done xc before and it was for a bet. He enjoyed it so much he raced it a second time.
though I suppose you're probably right about it not being possible in Liverpool as they'd steal your wheels.
😯
Wow!! Just wow...
Were you laughing as you were typing this..?
No, but I am now 😆
This is great, and well done to the lad. I love XC skiing.
However, as a dig at the sports press and sports fans NOT this skier: if it had been a certain other sport popular around here, we'd all be disbelieving it and blaming something else....
....google translate..... I think a better translation is 'Now they can forget "Eddie the Eagle"'
Ah, now that makes a lot more sense !
Cheers.
And well done too to Lizzy Yarnold on her fourth World Cup medal in the skeleton - and not even a hint of her English nationality in the reports. It's a disgrace I tell you!!!!!! 😉
Let's have some recognition for some more minority sports that don't get the coverage they deserve.
http://www.etwa.org/results.html
OK so to quickly summarise- it's entirely possible for an achievement in a field to be a massive thing in that field, while still simultaneously being of very little interest to other people. One is not a comment on the other. It can be a very big, very uninteresting, very ignored deal.
It is just an extension of the fact that some people get massive salaries and public visibility and respect for kicking a ball around (for example) but the country's best surgeons don't get to be on the back page every day for saving people's lives or limbs (for example). Whether your particular game wins olympic medals seems to be the least of all that.