@@miaababyYou and your team races about 100 other runners across a 2 mile or a 3.1 mile course depending if you're in middle or high school. You compete for individual placement and team placements
This is just superb! I want to thank TheRealX for posting this vintage historic film. I do not quite remember exactly what happened with keeping cross country in the Olympics, but I do recall in some of my readings about it the problem was that it would interfere with other events in the Olympic schedule especially with many athletes (distance runners) were competing in the 5000, 10000 and the marathon. Cross country is a specialty in itself, and it was to much for athletes to make it in the track events, plus the marathon and now cross country. At the present time (2024) actually since 2012, Sebastian Coe who is the head of the Track and Field Olympic Committe (IOC) has been trying to include cross country in the winter Olympics. He has been arguing for years that the African nations do not have access to Winter Olympic sports due to the weather and terrain-so they are in a disadvantage in comparison to European nations and the America's. So far, he has been unable to get the votes by other nations. In many nations, cross country running and racing is done during the fall and winter (with snow and everything)
A lot of the problem was that so many dropped out due to the heat that the IOC decided not to continue the event. Cross country won't be included in the Winter Olympics for the time being because the bylaws state that any winter sports must be played on ice or snow. That's why basketball and volleyball (typically played in the winter) are part of the summer games.
@@wvu05If you have run or spectated at any cross country running events you will realise that they are often held on icy ground or snow. At least in northern Europe.
Very helpful. Thank you. Just fyi, the music was loud relative to your voice track, so I wasn't able to get everything you were saying (especially at the end of some of your sentences). Just a consideration for future vids.
I didn't make my Varsity soccer team and in P.E. I had my pacer test and got 95 and the cross country coach saw and asked if I wanted to tryout for the team but I agreed thinking cross-country was just jogging for a long distance 😭😭😭
In the halfway results shown at 1:24, Edvin Wide of Sweden is mistakenly made a Briton. In fact he was born in Finland, as was one of the silver medalists, August Fager (born Fagerström) of the US.
Running is the foundation of skiing. XC ski race a 15 km and you output much more power as well as have to engage the balance mechanism. The biomechanics of running and skiing are nearly identical. Strength, Endurance plus Balance is what separates the two challanges. Skiing is a year round sport and activity. As any worthy skier, for instance Jessie Diggins knows. Jessie will ski on wheels a greater part of the year than on snow. Run, ski, ski or run. The person with mastery of both running and skiing is the person reaching the maximum challenge of processing the Sun's energy through the human mechanism efficiently. What form of roller skiing is the most viable to commute to work with everyday? Now that is a very interesting question these days.
The 23 retirements failed to finish the race due to the extreme heat and poisonous fumes from a nearby energy plant. Subsequently, cross-country running was dropped from the Games and has never returned.
So far I've done 1 race (and missed 2 from vacation 😂) and it's a lot harder than you anticipate. I was shooting for 21 minutes but got 21:39, and during the entire last half I couldn't feel my arms and legs :|
Great archival footage of the Great Paavo Nurmi, what's a little messed up, they showed the first 4 or 5 finishers but only mentioned the Finns and the runner from Great Britain who finished fourth, but ignored the great Earl Johnson who was an African American and finished third. Not trying to start anything, but that was a glaring omission. www.olympedia.org/athletes/78618
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one video... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6bNL0Lb8l2Q.html Bring it. Wasnt this published somewhere else as well? I know I commented about this same video somewhere....
