Through the years, there has been much rivalry between the different ski regions in Norway, especially regarding selection for World Championships and Olympics Games. Before the 1952 Olympic Games (in Oslo, Norway), there was intense “fighting” for the spots on the team. The Trondheim region knew however how to get rid of a competitor from the Oslo region. Knowing he enjoyed cake, they kept his plate full at the dinner the evening before the race. The kid ate until he couldn’t fit room for more, and at the starting line the next day was still full of cake from the over-eating. In the race he soon started throwing up, had to stop, and lost his spot on the Olympic team.
Norwegian women were not supposed to Cross-Country ski. Men would pinch their noses when they saw women passing by them on the Cross-Country ski trails. Women were supposed to wear colors such that darkened spots from sweating could not be seen.
 cross-country skied for over 100 years. He emigrated from Norway to Canada and skied daily until he was about 105 years old.</p>
<p> Tom Stensaker from Oslo skied 60 km per day, every day for 10 winter seasons. During the 1993 – 1994 season he skied almost 12,000 km.</p>
<p> Magnar Rismyhr is probably the Norwegian Cross-Country ski racer that has trained the most. He logged weekly training volumes of 49 hours; daily 7 hours of easy distance. Rismyhr was also one of the first Norwegian pioneers in skating technique during the 1970’s, participating in international marathons.</p>
<p> Norwegian coach Magnar Lundemo (1938 – 1987) had much to do with the current ban on blood-doping. After he correctly accused the Fins of blood-doping during the 1984 Olympics, blood-doping appeared on the Olympic Committee’s doping list in 1985.</p>
<p> Before one of the competitions at the 1995 World Championships in Thunder Bay, wax technicians Per-Knut Aaland and Arild Monsen skied the 16-km long loop to check the snow conditions. The two former Olympians skied as hard as they could, but still used over 2 hours. The snow was so polluted that after 100 m of skiing a thin layer of dirt would cover the ski bases. During the competitions, the teams put down rags saturated with diesel fuel in the tracks. The skiers would ski across the rags to clean their ski bases several times per kilometer.</p>
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