500 meters Times reflected are a combination of two heats with each skater racing once on the inside lane and once on the outside lane. Time 1Joey Cheek, USA1:09.76 2Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS1:10.41 …
500 meters Times reflected are a combination of two heats with each skater racing once on the inside lane and once on the outside lane. Time 1Svetlana Zhurova, RUS1:16.57 2Manli Wang, CHN1:16.78 …
MenWomen There are two techniques in cross country: classical (parallel skis) and freestyle (skating style). The Sprint features a qualification round with the fastest 16 skiers moving on to…
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(Encyclopedia) Gunn, Thom (Thomson William Gunn), 1929–2004, Anglo-American poet, b. Gravesend, Kent, England, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge (1953). Gunn published his first volume of poems, the…
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