Wednesday, March 02, 2005

I'm jealous

Snow in The Netherlands!! And even more than in Norway!! We have only a thin layer (5 cms) but the sun is shining and temperatures are now really low, even during the day. With the sun shining, the temps are up to -10 degr.C, but last night they went down to -16 degr.C.
That's still nothing compared to the inner parts of Norway where the temps were down to -35 degr. C, still "spring-ish" according to the people living there.......and they are going down even more, is the prediction.....
So, you people "down-there", drive carefully and rather use the train, which might be late but you certainly will make your appointments.....and learn the kids to make a real Dutch Snowman, it's not so often that will happen nowadays...

Sunday, February 27, 2005

World Championship Skiing

Today the Norwegians really had a BALL! They started the last day with a triple victory on the 50 kms and managed to show some courtesy on the 7,5 km Nordic by "letting" Germany take the last gold medal of the championship while Norway took the "rest" silver and bronze.

Total pot: 7 gold, 5 silver and 7 bronze in 19 exercises.........not bad one in each race!! And of course they won the Championships totalpoints class as well...........

The team which is preparing the skis, made it alright again after ruining our most secure gold medal on the sprint women (Marit Bjoergen) so they way they prepared the skis was evidently 1000% better than the rest of the participants.

All in all a really great Norwegian Championship with some foreign competition on the side....