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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Infectious disease
Two of the top Norwegian men are missing this week's Nordic Open Championships because they're sick. Jorgen Rostrup and Bernt Bjornsgaard were sent home.
One of the teams I followed at Tio Mila had to change its lineup at the last minute when 3 of the 10 runners got sick.
Last year, the OK relay team at the U.S. Champs suffered a lot because a couple of us were sick.
The Norwegian women's relay team at the 1993 WOC was disqualified for doping. Apparently, the doping was a non-prescription cold medicine one of the runners took to combat a cold.
Getting a cold at a big race is bad. But, having flu or a norovirus burn through the field at a WOC would be a real disaster.
