Therese Johaug, (Norway), 31:30/10,000 runner, wins 15 km Nordic skiing cross country in Winter Olympics Beijing

Johaug purged an 18 month suspension for doping in 2018 but she’s now back in good form and has put all that behind her and no one has a bad word to say about her. This is interesting because in track and field and road running if someone has served a suspension and then came back to competition they will still face criticism but apparently not in Nordic skiing and everybody has turned the page and welcomed her back according to reports. Different mindset and different culture.

Not sure that no one has anything bad to say. You have to be careful of what you say in public. It could be brought to the justice.

Anyway, today she was on a different planet than all other competitors. It was painful to see all these other talented skiers that train very hard all year long and were looking like junior, totally dominated.

The hotness gold goes to 6th place.

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no need but wrote:

Not sure that no one has anything bad to say. You have to be careful of what you say in public

WTF? Scandinavia and Western Europe, not China.

The swedes missed the waxing completely in the skate style.

DOPER Johaug who was kicked out of the 2018 olympics for DOPING. Didn't buy her lipstick excuse.

Russia WINS the gold and silver in the men's skiathlong. Finland, basically also part of Russia, takes 3rd.

Biathlon is about the dirtiest sport there is. Scandinavians are doping leaders.

sepreh wrote:

Biathlon is about the dirtiest sport there is. Scandinavians are doping leaders.

This is cross country skiing, not biathlon but there is some overlap of course. In biathlon they have to combine cross country skiing with shooting targets .

In addition, there’s another event called “Nordic combined” which is a mixture of ski jumping and cross country skiing. It’s a different event and different discipline as well.

Today’s event was 15 km classic cross country skiing followed by a change of skis and then 15 km in skating freestyle., total 30k. No one can touch the Russian Bolshunov, who is an absolute monster.

Niskanen was with Bolshunov at the change, but was dropped and visibly exhausted, and held on with his sisu for a medal.

Bolshunov, an absolute monster in his dry land training in the Russian Ural Mountains. Guy is a beast.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Niskanen was with Bolshunov at the change, but was dropped and visibly exhausted, and held on with his sisu for a medal.

Note the regular blood glucose monitoring in the video, provided by the Russian federation, to check for optimal Mmol levels in training.

Ghost1 wrote:

Johaug purged an 18 month suspension for doping in 2018 but she’s now back in good form and has put all that behind her and no one has a bad word to say about her. This is interesting because in track and field and road running if someone has served a suspension and then came back to competition they will still face criticism but apparently not in Nordic skiing and everybody has turned the page and welcomed her back according to reports. Different mindset and different culture.

Norwegians dope? I've never heard something like that. You know they are white? It's Ingebrigtsen-Country.

Optimal sisu levels are still more important. Can they measure that yet?

well,, wrote:

The swedes missed the waxing completely in the skate style.

Clearly coached by JS.

67uy wrote:

well,, wrote:

The swedes missed the waxing completely in the skate style.

Clearly coached by JS.

I suspect you said that in jest, but if not, JS has told me a couple of times that he’s not involved in any way with cross country skiing in Sweden. He purely focuses on running in its purest form.

Ghost1 wrote:

Johaug purged an 18 month suspension for doping in 2018 but she’s now back in good form and has put all that behind her and no one has a bad word to say about her. This is interesting because in track and field and road running if someone has served a suspension and then came back to competition they will still face criticism but apparently not in Nordic skiing and everybody has turned the page and welcomed her back according to reports. Different mindset and different culture.

No, not at all. You’re completely out of touch here. The doping accusations and anger are in that community just as they are here in the athletics community. No one likes a cheater.

Why do you always seem to defend dopers? It makes no sense.

uddavala wrote:

Ghost1 wrote:

Johaug purged an 18 month suspension for doping in 2018 but she’s now back in good form and has put all that behind her and no one has a bad word to say about her. This is interesting because in track and field and road running if someone has served a suspension and then came back to competition they will still face criticism but apparently not in Nordic skiing and everybody has turned the page and welcomed her back according to reports. Different mindset and different culture.

No, not at all. You’re completely out of touch here. The doping accusations and anger are in that community just as they are here in the athletics community. No one likes a cheater.

Why do you always seem to defend dopers? It makes no sense.

Based on what you say I stand corrected and apologize for any misunderstanding which was conveyed. I understand your irritation and it is perfectly legitimate. My bad.

Ghost1 wrote:

https://youtu.be/t6zhyQIBVKY

Bolshunov, an absolute monster in his dry land training in the Russian Ural Mountains. Guy is a beast.

Makes me want to go out and do some ski pole sprints!

Bad Wigins wrote:

DOPER Johaug who was kicked out of the 2018 olympics for DOPING. Didn't buy her lipstick excuse.

Russia WINS the gold and silver in the men's skiathlong. Finland, basically also part of Russia, takes 3rd.

In what way is Finland part of Russia? Maybe you are thinking of Belarus? Please do the world a favor and stop posting every idiotic thought that comes in your head.

I agree with a poster on another thread that Wigans is a mod that posts inflammatory crap to boost click counts.