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Saturday, September 11, 2004
Long qualifying race fantasy team
Boris started a fantasy WOC thread at Attackpoint. Check it out at Attackpoint and add your team.
Here is my team for the long qualifying race. From the first list of nations: Jenny Johansson (SWE), Simone Niggli-Luder (SUI), Emil Wingsted (SWE) and Mats Haldin (FIN). From the second list of nations: Olle Karner (EST) and Tina Olm-Junegard (EST). From North America: Brian and Sandy.
A few words about my team:
You'll see a lot of Scandinavians. That's because I expect the terrain to favor Norwegians, Swedes and Finns. I won't be surprised if a few non-Scandinavians do very well (Novikov and Guerorgiou being a couple of obvious candidates).
Picking runners for the second group of nations was quite a challenge. I don't know as many of the names. I was tempted to pick Katalin Olah (HUN) with all of her experience. I gave some thought to Anna Garin (from Sweden but running for Spain). I settled on Tina Olm-Junegard (EST), at least in part for sentimental reasons. Tina was a clubmate when I was living in Stockholm.
Sandy (CAN) seems like an obvious pick for the North American woman. I didn't feel like I had as obvious a choice among the North American men.
posted by Michael |
2:46 PM
