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Tim Trower
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Race within a race for Peruvian
I just came across an e-mail from Kent Murdoch, the Medford native coaching Peruvian cross-country skier Roberto Carcelen. They are to compete soon, I believe, in the 15-kilometer race. Murdoch writes:
“Roberto is aiming to win among the developing nations. There are skiers from 54 nations in cross country, the most of any sport in the Olympics. Eighteen are developing nations. The 18 nations have only one or two skiers. The more established ski nations will enter up to their max of four. So he has a race within the race.
“Conditions have been very challenging on the course with all the rain and fresh, wet snow. I’ve never seen so many World Cup skiers crashing. Roberto took a bad fall on Friday and is really sore today. But I think that will disappear come race time with all the adrenalin.”
He added an aside about his brother, Paul, who lives in Medford and was quoted in a story in Sunday’s paper indicating Kent was the better high school skier while they were growing up. ”I would actually describe Paul as the more gifted athlete. but he’s right, I worked harder,” Kent wrote.