Winter Games Day -13

[joggerjayne]

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING

Cross country skiing is one of the most aerobically demanding sports in the world. Actually, I don't know what possesses anyone to push their skis, when there are so many perfectly good downhill slopes. Anyway, here are Team GB ...

Andrew Musgrave, who recently entered the Norwegian spring race, in which the Norwegians were racing to qualify for the Norwegian Olympic squad ... and won it, beating all the Norwegians. So Andrew is a real medal prospect.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65794000/jpg/_65794388_musgrave.jpg

Andrew Young, who skied for GB at Vancouver, and who recently ingratiated himself to the people of Oberhof by blogging ... "Oberhof is a dump. Never, ever go there."

http://www.skiclub.co.uk/assets/images/britisheliteathletes/athletes/photos/34.jpg

Callum Smith, who was studying Chemical Engineering at Edinburgh, but has taken a year out to focus on training for the Olympics.

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Callum%2BSmith%2Bgf6M-A97C_1m.jpg

Posy Musgrave, who is our top female splinter, and a real prospect for a medal in the freestyle sprint.

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/7dff87_73280f83422280347281e8327f48c35a.jpg_srz_642_960_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz

[joggerjayne]

Posy Musgrave also qualifies as another Olympian with a brilliant name.

[joggerjayne]

Today's "One For The Boys" is Tina Maze, from Slovenia.

http://binaryapi.ap.org/650c2e054cac43409c7e78bc47ee0ec8/460x.jpg

http://www.sloveniatimes.com/modules/uploader/uploads/Aktualno/Podobe1/tina_maze_copy1.jpg

http://static3.kleinezeitung.at/system/galleries_520x335/upload/7/2/3/3193299/maze1712reu726.jpg

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/35/15/a1/3515a1844bf7a5935e4e63177ed97e97.jpg

Thank you, guys. Don't say I never give you anything.

Tina competes in the Downhill, so her GB rival, for whom we will be cheering, is ...

... Chemmy!

http://blog.monarch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/ChemmyAlcottfromFB.jpg

[mushroom25]

aren't there any pictures of her bum?

[jno]

top female splinter? Be useful for all those broken bones, I suppose