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FIS World Cup Telemark Parallel Sprint Feb 2012
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Thought I'd re-post this from the Piste section as it's definitely Snowsports related:

Interesting video of the recent FIS World Cup Telemark Parallel Sprint event (a dual sprint race format comprising gates, a jump, a 360 deg berm and short cross country section) in Rjukan, Norway. The first few minutes of the video are from a film about the life of 19th Century ski pioneer and inventor of the Telemark turn, Sondre Norheim. It's a facebook link, but the video is set to public, so anyone should be able to view it:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4056055805152

(Incidentally, Rjukan in Norway was also the location of the heavy water plant that was the object of the successful "Heroes of Telemark" WW2 commando raid).

IMV Telemark racing is long overdue in the Winter Olympics (by quite a few decades you could argue... Toofy Grin )
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Awesome - though the race stuff lacks something to make it big on the telly - always wondered if they went telemark in just the same disciplines as the downhill stuff whether the audience might grow - would lose the purist vibe but by all acou ts the current race scene is a small one. I telemark and would indeed love to see it in Olympics, just not sure current format would cut it?

Regarding the Heroes of Telemark, them dudes trained for the mission in the Cairngorms, and the Glenmore and Rothiemurchus forests, the cairngorm plateaux being pretty comparable to the Hardanger Plateau. For those familiar with aviemore area, the team were based in drumintoul lodge just past coylumbridge on the ski road (and i believe the old glenmore lodge - now youth hostel. Great story, couple of good books about it available.
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Alastair Pink, Don't think enough nNations compete in Telemark at a high enough level to make it an Olympic sport yet. Just look at the gap at World cup races for the top 15 in the Sprint for example, almost 30 seconds for Women and 8 seconds for men in a 1.34 min race. Alpine Super G for example is around 2-3 secs for both men & women.
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