By Gavin Kentch
We’ve brought you words from today’s 4 x 7.5km men’s relay in Trondheim. We’ve brought you photos. And now, for the true aficionados, here is some audio. I know from pageview statistics that honestly not that many people are reading these audio file roundups, but those of you who are finding your way here have told me that you really appreciate this. Which is awesome. So, you’re welcome, and now here are:
The winners’ press conferences, in Norway–Switzerland–Sweden podium order:
The Canadian men’s relay team:
Swiss skiers Jonas Baumann and Jason Rüesch, speaking in basically perfect English, which is not even one of the four official languages of Switzerland:
(Some of) the Italian men’s relay team, speaking in English:
Young Truls Gisselman, speaking in Swedish:
Norwegian Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget, speaking in Norwegian:
Finally, these already went up in context in the lead article, but, just for the sake of completeness, here are first the four U.S. men who raced today:
And finally here is U.S. Ski Team Head Coach Matt Whitcomb (in both clips):
We’ll be back tomorrow with more from what should be an epic women’s relay. Thanks for reading/listening/viewing.
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