Both the Juniors and the U23 athletes have each had a day of competition now at their respective world championships. The juniors raced their sprint competition 2 days ago and the U23s raced yesterday.
Team Canada has had a bit of a rough go over here. Almost every athlete has had some version of the flu lasting from 8hrs to 3-4 days. Now our wax techs are starting to get sick too. I myself had a pretty mild version of it 4 days ago. It hasn't been great for overall team moral, but I have been impressed with the way that everyone has handled the situation. It isn't very much fun having the flu at home, but when you are traveling it sucks even worst but nobody has let it get them really down.
We have already seen some solid results. My team mate Heidi Widmer posted a 15th place in the junior women's qualifiers on Monday and finished up 22nd after a heart breaker of a fall in her quarter final. The other 3 junior women and the 4 junior men narrowly missed qualifying for the heats.
In U23 competition our men's team led the way with 3 men qualifying and Len Valjas finishing 9th. I qualified 15th after a bit of a spastic qualifier. I was nervous and it showed in the way the i was skiing. I rushed my strides and got a little tangled up with myself a few times, but I was happy to qualify and make it into the heats.
I felt like I skied my quarter final heat well. I was in second for 2/3 of the race, and both uphill climbs which are not normally my strong point. The European sprinters are much more aggressive in the sprint heats and just staying on your feet with everyone jostling you around and stepping on your equipment is a feat. I held my ground in the sprint, but got a little turned around when a girl stomped on my pole and tugged me backwards and then I lost concentration for just a few seconds and the race was over. I was still happy with the way that I skied it, but just wished that I had been able to finish a little stronger. I finished the day in 21st position. Only one other Canadian women, Emily Nishikawa, started yesterday's race. Emily finished in 27th position after battling with a cold these last couple of days.
I race a 10km classic tomorrow. I am excited to go out there and hammer up those hills. It is a tough course, but I think that it will be fun. We'll see...
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