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Okej, de verkade trivas bra ihop åtminstone, som en stor ” happy family”..
Ulvang, Manuela Di Centa, Smirnov och Daehlie. De delade kanske intressen ”och kakrecept” med varandra?
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/28/sports/winter-olympics-smirnov-s-long-race-and-wait-are-over.html
WINTER OLYMPICS; Smirnov's Long Race and Wait Are Over
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Smirnov's victory came at the expense of Mika Myllylae of Finland, who took the silver medal, and Sture Sivertsen of Norway, who took the bronze. It also came at the expense
of Smirnov's Norwegian friends Bjorn Daehlie and Vegard Ulvang, who finished fourth and 10th.
"I am disappointed for myself,
but the best thing about today is that Vladimir finally did it," said Ulvang, the triple Olympic gold medalist in Albertville two years ago who could manage only one silver medal here
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The truth is that he never expected to make his Olympic breakthrough at this distance.
"I have raced 50 times the 50 kilometers, but I have never had this kind of result," he said. "Usually after 42 or 43 kilometers, I start to get sore and fall back. But the surprise today was that I never had any problems, and the biggest surprise of all is that I got the gold medal." Hears the Cheers
Smirnov started 59th in the 72-man field and recorded the fastest split times at all but the first checkpoint, at 1.7 kilometers. He finished in 2 hours 7 minutes 20.3 seconds,
more than a minute better than Myllylae.
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Smirnov was inundated with letters from supportive Norwegians, some of which contained paper medals colored gold. Since then, he has begun pitching coffee on Norwegian television
and continued his adventures with Ulvang, spending three weeks climbing mountains and riding horses with him in Mongolia last summer.
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The two skiers first
met at the World Junior Championships in 1982 but were unable to develop a friendship until Smirnov left the Soviet Union in 1991.