by skitrax.com
Competitors collapse in exhaustion as Dario Cologna celebrates his win. © Nordic Focus
February 20, 2014 – Adam van Koeverden, a four-time Olympic medalist in kayak, is in Sochi reporting for the CBC and providing his insight as an elite athlete in a blog on the network’s website. His latest entry,
The pain train, discusses pain in sport with a focus on Nordic skiing: “The whole idea of cross-country skiing is predicated on training your body to endure as much pain as possible, and then manage to keep skiing fast while you inflict a maximum dose of it during a race.” Read van Koeverden’s blog
here.
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