The first weekend of the 2022 Winter Olympics yielded a pair of victories by cross-country skiers more beloved by bettors than spectators.
take full advantage of physics. A bobsleigh, a luge, or a skeleton requires exceptional skill to pilot, but the basic plotline dates from that apple plummeting from a Lincolnshire tree, and the mechanics of gravity mean that it’s very hard for a lay observer to tell much difference between one run and the next.
And—at least on the first weekend—this unromantic setting has yielded a pair of workmanlike victories by athletes more beloved by bettors than spectators. The Norwegian Therese Johaug has dominated the women’s field for years—even since she came back from an eighteen-month doping suspension—and she ran away with Saturday’s skiathlon race, which requires racers to switch skis, and techniques, halfway through.
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