XC Skiing - 2009 American Birkebeiner!

[Biffbradford]

Nope ... winter ain't over yet! http://emoticons4u.com/happy/058.gif

Here's a few from this year's hilly, 50km race.

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Zack Simons and Mark Iverson of Rossignol, plus Karl Walczak of Michigan Tech. University.

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A happy Deb Adams of Minneapolis, MN.

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The great Bjorn Daehlie.

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The final KM for some of the 7,000+ skiers was across Lake Hayward.

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Finished at last!

[primoz]

First one is really cool. Right timing, good crop, so nothing to complain there :) Others are nothing special for my taste, except that Bjorn looks a bit more rounded then he did at time, when we were skiing together :D Gee... I didn't see him for quite few years, so on first sight, I thought you are joking with caption, but then I looked better and saw it's really him :)