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Please no more of these whimpy golf course “cross countries”.

Instead of so-called "sports" like "break dancing" this is the real sport they should break back to the Olympics. The way it's going now with all the weird events they are adding, pretty soon Tiddlywinks will be an Olympic sport!

Great story

Cross country is the most original and natural and oldest sport.

Get rid of Olympic Breakdancing and bring back XC!

Nurmi was the absolute favorite those times, thanks for the beautiful video, 📷😊,it was a super race 🏃👌🏼

Can you make a video explaining just the basics basics of it and adding the scoring. Can you use recent videos and not all footage as well.

I’m thinking, in middle school, I will join 3 sports teams for an award. I’m thinking, basketball, track and field, and CROSS COUNTRY. WISH ME LUCK

very interesting!

Me thinking about starting trun cross country

Ummm so its takeshis castle on foot

Turn music down

Paavo Nurmi, an absolutely phenomenal runner. Am I right in saying that he won 4 gold medals in those Olympics? A huge thank you for this.

Watching this because I start XC in a week and have no idea about ANYTHING about it 😭

Evento muito interessante deveria voltar para as Olimpíadas

CC should make a come back in the Olympics 12KM hard grass hilly courses

This is just superb! I want to thank TheRealX for posting this vintage historic film. I do not quite remember exactly what happened with keeping cross country in the Olympics, but I do recall in some of my readings about it the problem was that it would interfere with other events in the Olympic schedule especially with many athletes (distance runners) were competing in the 5000, 10000 and the marathon. Cross country is a specialty in itself, and it was to much for athletes to make it in the track events, plus the marathon and now cross country. At the present time (2024) actually since 2012, Sebastian Coe who is the head of the Track and Field Olympic Committe (IOC) has been trying to include cross country in the winter Olympics. He has been arguing for years that the African nations do not have access to Winter Olympic sports due to the weather and terrain-so they are in a disadvantage in comparison to European nations and the America's. So far, he has been unable to get the votes by other nations. In many nations, cross country running and racing is done during the fall and winter (with snow and everything)

The African-American on the squad is Earle Johnson who won the individual bronze medal.

GREAT motivating series!! Thank you

Very helpful. Thank you. Just fyi, the music was loud relative to your voice track, so I wasn't able to get everything you were saying (especially at the end of some of your sentences). Just a consideration for future vids.

Nice to see Barry Sirchis winning at NE regional at 3:55

the purist form of falling in love with nature

I didn't make my Varsity soccer team and in P.E. I had my pacer test and got 95 and the cross country coach saw and asked if I wanted to tryout for the team but I agreed thinking cross-country was just jogging for a long distance 😭😭😭

My coach, Tom Dowling, coached Cathy Schiro. I know Brent Steiner and even coached at his high school.

In the halfway results shown at 1:24, Edvin Wide of Sweden is mistakenly made a Briton. In fact he was born in Finland, as was one of the silver medalists, August Fager (born Fagerström) of the US.

Such a GREAT video

Running is the foundation of skiing. XC ski race a 15 km and you output much more power as well as have to engage the balance mechanism. The biomechanics of running and skiing are nearly identical. Strength, Endurance plus Balance is what separates the two challanges. Skiing is a year round sport and activity. As any worthy skier, for instance Jessie Diggins knows. Jessie will ski on wheels a greater part of the year than on snow. Run, ski, ski or run. The person with mastery of both running and skiing is the person reaching the maximum challenge of processing the Sun's energy through the human mechanism efficiently. What form of roller skiing is the most viable to commute to work with everyday? Now that is a very interesting question these days.

Incredible history, great video!

The 23 retirements failed to finish the race due to the extreme heat and poisonous fumes from a nearby energy plant. Subsequently, cross-country running was dropped from the Games and has never returned.

Cross Country Pablo Nurmi o fera

where is 1984 Kinney Race?

Homework

Just ran 17:45 yesterday and still feel like crap

Great channel tho Love this even my teacher recommended this video for homework keep going the music makes it even better

Nice story, but turn off the music.

Scoring... Jump to 9.42. thanks!

not me watching this bc i’m starting to do cross for the first time 💀

Lmfao for a while I thought cross country was just running really far distances

I remember Matt but not Janet.

Great archival footage of the Great Paavo Nurmi, what's a little messed up, they showed the first 4 or 5 finishers but only mentioned the Finns and the runner from Great Britain who finished fourth, but ignored the great Earl Johnson who was an African American and finished third. Not trying to start anything, but that was a glaring omission. www.olympedia.org/athletes/78618

You guys run for glory, the Tarahumara run for fun 🤣

I'd love to see the 1982 race

music higher than voice 😑

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Simon Gutierez (13:40) became quite the mountain runner, competing in Europe for team USA several times. This was so well done!

PLEASE HELP AND DONATE!! Uniforms are ripped need new uniforms for team gf.me/u/ymmcd3

Good Video! Very informative, with crisp illustrations. Nice job!

How many times does Huddle have to put her hands up and lose or almost lose to stop doing it?

one video... ruclips.net/video/6bNL0Lb8l2Q/видео.html Bring it. Wasnt this published somewhere else as well? I know I commented about this same video somewhere....

if xc was in the Olympics like 15 years ago Bekele would absolutely dominate