Thomas Wassberg - Legend Of Swedish Cross Country Skiing
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Thomas Lars Wassberg (born 27 March 1956) is a Swedish former cross-country skier. A fast skating style - push for every leg - is still called "Wassberg" after him in several countries. Wassberg's skiing idols when growing up were Sixten Jernberg and Oddvar Brå. He has described his mental strength and physical fitness as his greatest abilities as a skier, with his main weakness being a lack of sprinting ability.
Wassberg won four Olympic gold medals: in 15 km (1980), 50 km (1984), and the 4 × 10 km relay (1984, 1988), and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Sweden in 1988.[2] At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he earned three golds (50 km: 1982, 30 km: 1987, and 4 × 10 km relay: 1987), three silvers (15 km: 1985, 1987; 50 km (1987), and one bronze (4 × 10 km relay: 1985). Additionally, Wassberg won the 50 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival three times (1980, 1982 and 1987) and the 15 km twice (1979, 1985).[3]
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Wassberg edged out Finland's Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the 15 km, the closest cross-country ski race in Olympic history. Wassberg subsequently suggested to Mieto that the gold medal should be split between them "as one one-hundredth of a second is nothing in a 15-kilometer race". This incident led the International Ski Federation (FIS) to change their timing to the nearest one-tenth of a second. It also resulted in an apocryphal urban legend that Wassberg and Mieto's medals were cut in half and re-welded into half-gold, half-silver medals.[4] At the 1984 Winter Olympics, Wassberg beat out fellow Swede Gunde Svan by 4.9 seconds in the 50 km, the closest margin of victory ever in that event until Giorgio Di Centa edged out Yevgeny Dementyev by 0.8 seconds at the 2006 Winter Olympics though the 2006 event was a mass start event while the 1984 event was an interval start event.
He won the World Cup in 1977, and in 1980 was awarded the Holmenkollen medal. For some reason his teammate Sven-Åke Lundbäck did not receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1978. In protest to this decision Wassberg refused to accept his Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1980.[3][5]
According to Bengt Erik Bengtsson, Chief of the Nordic Office of the FIS from 1984 to 2004, Wassberg was the first to suggest in 1984 the splitting of the sport of cross country skiing into classic and freestyle disciplines. This was subsequently implemented by FIS in 1986.[6]
After retiring from competitions Wassberg worked as a sports reporter for Swedish Radio and a cross-country skiing coach for his club Åsarna IK. In 2009 he appeared on Swedish television in the show contests Mästarnas mästare, and in 2016 participated in Let's Dance 2016 which was broadcast on TV4.[7] In the 2010s he oversaw the preparation of ski tracks for Åsarna IK, organized bird hunting events for tourists and worked as a forester.
Thank you
A true legend. He looks so powerful in the ski track
А где король то?
@@user-mm2ez6tp9d He is still alive :)
Jari красавчег 👍
Interesting to see the difference in classical techniques between Wassberg and modern skiers. The hip moves much farther forward in the glide phase of modern skiers. Also interesting to see Wassberg's skating technique - he looked more comfortable with the V1 (paddle dance) than Svan did (although I have to admit that I haven't seen that many clips of Svan skating). Does anyone know if Mieto ever learned to skate?
Посмотри друг Николая Семеновича Зимятова и сборную СССР того времени и успокойся😉
Обидно по нашего Николя Зимятова ноль а вот ведь где король!!!! А этот один раз его на мили секунду сделали и герой! А король где?
Some kind of actual analysis/commentary (even if only by inserting text, like... the really informative text in the description) instead of non-descript race clips and the boring "you have to feel this is awesome" music would have been way better imo... good tributes etc are way more than just "clip+add music everyone's sick of after 5s"... (please find better music)
The music i have is non copyright music.. if i have music with copyright to it, there is a chance the channel will be banned.. i already have 1 of 3 total cr strikesXD
But i understand you!
@@Jari.Isometsa plenty of non-copyright music that's not "fall asleep" or "feel this way" music, and mostly I was disappointed bc I think I heard this one soooo many times in no-effort clips that have no info and basically are just copy/paste from other channels... Also your info about the vid in the description contained sooo much really good, interesting info that never came up in the actual video. If you would clip those facts/factoids into the actual video it would make it a lot better imo. If I click a vid, I prefer the info in the vid bc I also want to watch the footage, not in the info about it so I have to make a choice "read the info or watch the clip". :)
Николай Семёнович Земятов братья😊
А вы всегда вторые! Всегда ! Без обид только спорт😊
А так очень круто на тренировке часто включаю👍👍👍