In one of the cross country skiing events the Canadian women's team who were in 3rd at the time, one of the women on the team broke one of her skiing poles. Well in cross country you're not exactly going anyway without both poles. The coach of Norway ran out to the track to give the skier a pole. Good story, even greater when you consider the team of Norway finished 4th. Now that is what the games are suppose to be about.
Woody0 said:
Its not hard to understand at all:smoking: ....I was just pointing out the fact that there MIGHT be some Norewigans that are unhappy about what he did...Damn I make a statement and you think I was bashing the move...I was just pointing out that there will be some Norweigans that are not happy w/ the gesture..
According to a St. Louis Dispatch column on the event, it apparently is a tradition to help out a fellow competitor:
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This one act of sportsmanship and good will allowed Renner to complete her leg of the two-skier relay. It allowed her teammate, Scott, to make a furious anchor run that earned a silver medal. They missed gold by less than a second to the Swedes.
And I had Norway -120 over Canada in that event...uppy: what a tough loss
Out of the crowd, an arm extended towards Renner, and someone shoved a new pole in her hand. It was a Norwegian coach; he was simply following an unwritten tradition of their sport.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
fficeffice" /><o></o>This one act of sportsmanship and good will allowed Renner to complete her leg of the two-skier relay. It allowed her teammate, Scott, to make a furious anchor run that earned a silver medal. They missed gold by less than a second to the Swedes.
And I had Norway -120 over Canada in that event...
uppy: what a tough loss
