The Scot wrote:
First race is underway W-U20, course not too bad, quite twisty with lots of varying terrain although still on the flat side.
Yeah but xc isn't hill racing. Why do we always seem to conflate that when it comes to xc?
The Scot wrote:
First race is underway W-U20, course not too bad, quite twisty with lots of varying terrain although still on the flat side.
Yeah but xc isn't hill racing. Why do we always seem to conflate that when it comes to xc?
Ingrebitsen wins from the rather showy Oumaiz who was too busy hi-fiving other runners to actually win :-)
Banana Beard wrote:
The Scot wrote:
First race is underway W-U20, course not too bad, quite twisty with lots of varying terrain although still on the flat side.
Yeah but xc isn't hill racing. Why do we always seem to conflate that when it comes to xc?
I'm usually guilty of that myself (used to train on Parliament Hill so I have an excuse) but I was just thinking that this is a rare course that has managed to be challenging without overly hilly. Very well designed.
There should be hills though. Running "cross country" is literally that - running across the varied elevation and surface that is prevalent in mother England
Results link:
A few NCAA athletes in that U23 women's race won by Denmark's Anna Emilie Moller.
Weronika Pyzk (San Francisco) beat Scherrer for Bronze. Deja vu for Gehring who was outsprinted two year ago by Ennaoui but gold for team Germany (with Dattke finishing 6th short one shoe).
Pyzik is now at Oregon. :)
right, I am not really folllowing US college Athletics. It was just that at last year's Euro XC with Burkard running so strongly, I realized how many of the top 10-15 women had been running for US colleges.
Jimmy Gressier seems a bit of a prat with his backward cap and failed knee-slide across the finish line.
Go, Laura! wrote:
Jimmy Gressier seems a bit of a prat with his backward cap and failed knee-slide across the finish line.
Yes I think he needs a bit more practice! what a dope.
The knee slide was hilarious, though.
An hour's break in the action whilst they have all the U23 & U20 medal ceremonies - time to grab some lunch!
JabbyJaywalker wrote:
The knee slide was hilarious, though.
Here you go:
euro xc u23 gressier stacks it
https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics/status/1071730367332155393https://twitter.com/SeanieMcNamara/status/1071729635858227200Norwegian team gold in the men u20.
La Marseillaise is so much more rousing and jauntier than our dreary God Save The Queen.
Very unusual that there's no individual medals yet for Britain and they'll be hard to come by in the senior races.
12 mins in - Yasemin Can leads by 3 seconds. If Schlumpf, Krumins & Grovdal can stick with her they can out-kick her since she doesn't have much of a finish.
Is he actually allowed to have those two flags during the race?
Go on, Fabienne Schlumpf! She takes the lead at 18 mins. Then Can takes it back. Then Schlumpf says, "No, you don't!"
Schlumpf always looks like she's running on eggshells. Something to do with her knee lift and her height I think.
Nice scrap between Can and Schulmpf
The Scot wrote:
Nice scrap between Can and Schulmpf
Even better when Grovdal caught them but they finish Can, Schlumpg and Grovdal.
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