who's watching tiomila?

[harry]

going to the wire. kalle has dropped carsten.
we 6 - 8 then. dan taking few places for bakk 1.

[harry]

wow! SNO 2 secs. how? grattis to the young czech and jens who ran 2nd. first swedish team to win in X years. are kristiansand disq? rav 7. looks like bostrom outsprinted carsten

[distracted]

are kristiansand disq?

yep - 8th leg runner (Haugen)

[harry]

Apparently halden were getting very wound up by sodertalje just running behind them for a long time. Stressed changeovers with people having problems with jackets/headtorch straps contrasted with previous years when they have stopped and had a chat over the map board. tore alledgedly slowed down, sped up, even stopped but losman just stayed 2 steps behind as if he had been instructed on no account to try to navigate. i am told that tore put in a massive spurt towards the end but still couldn't shake petr who punched the last control in one fluid motion without breaking stride and ran in the correct finish lane whilst tore chose the wrong lane and then burst through and over all the tapes. afterwards he apprently called the whole thing a joke. meanwhile jens molin was jumping for joy that he had changed from hellas to SNO (and not to Ravinen! - who got their best result for a while to finish 7th)

one comment on alternativet.. "if sandvik had stopped for a s*** in the forest, losman would have wiped his a**/* to get faster to the finish" !!!

hmmmm anyway whatever they said SNO chose the team to fit this year's leg structure, with the ungaffled last. it's fair tactics, they couldn't beat halden any other way and well done to them.

[harry]

i can't wait for jukola!

[PeterG]

I've got the finish recorded. I'll upload it somewhere once I've managed to cut it out of the 450MB video file it currently resides in.

[gross2006]

, even stopped but losman just stayed 2 steps behind as if he had been instructed on no account to try to navigate.

it's fair tactics,.

Bollocks - it's cheating:) If Scotia had been in the SNO team he'd already have handed his medal back

[PeterG]

http://www.peterg.co.uk/random/Tio2005Finish.wmv

Sorry about the lack of sound and wmv-ness

[BJ]

they played by the rules, we knew that Losman would be told to sit on Tore no matter what. But it was really taking the piss watching him sit, and do nothing. If the swedes want to win like that, let them have it......

Jukola is not far away......

[Danailov]

fair or not, Losman take the win ...
PeterG 10x for the movie. did somebody have the 1st leg caught on tape?

[mharky]

That was amazing!

[Dan]

shh

[mharky]

i wonder how many people are going to get that dan?

[Dan]

not many but it made me smile for at least 2 seconds!

[Scotia.]

Those night orienteers are at the top of my list of respect. Especially nocturnal nordberg. I can't believe how skilled they are to run at full speed through the night and not miss much...