It is freezing when the Norwegian squad will come to the canadian countryside in march 1995. The thermometer shows at the kaldaste 28 degrees below zero and it is isande cold wind.
Arild Monsen, who you now know as landslagstrenar in the sprint has just added up. Now, he is with in the Norwegian smøreteamet.
There seems to be an easy world cup to be smørjar in.
So wrong, he has never taken.
Struck down like a bomb
After a couple of distansar where it even with among other things silver Bjørn Dæhlie of 10 kilometers (behind Vladimir Smirnov) turns in any weather in total.
Completely without prior notice.
In the course of one night retreat about one metre of snow. Warm winds feiar inland and the temperature rises many degrees. A mysterious black bekaktig coating put themselves at the top of the snow.
– hit the down like a bomb for everyone. There was no one who was prepared for it, ” explains Arild Monsen, 25 years after.
today is Arild Monsen sprinttrenar for the Norwegian langrennsherrene. In 1995, he had just loaded up and was skitestar for the Norwegian national team.
Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB
He remember these world cup days, far better and more detailed than most other skirenn he has been on. So special they were.
He explains that they at the time spent much more time on the gliding of every skipar. The same procedure was repeated to them over 50 times. Glida, børsta and sikla. All season.
Only on one day was all this bortkasta. The new ski was commissioned in hopetal from Europe.
The secret weapon in the bag to Arild Monsen was a handkle that smøreteamet sausa in with the diesel.
Photo: Screenshot from NRK Tried avgas and turpentine
after just 200 metres up the ski jump instantaneous. They were very black of the skit under the ski. It was a race between nations to find out what one could use to remove the muck from the ski.
Aviation, turpentine and malingsfjernar was attempted. Normal gliding of the ski jump was not an option any longer.
finally understood all that what worked best was diesel.
It was a parody. And one of the stories. I have never, never experienced anything close to this. Neither before or after have I experienced so polluted snow in Thunder Bay, explains Monsen.
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Marit Mikkelsplass go over dieselhandkle of 30 km in the world CHAMPIONSHIP Thunder Bay in Canada. Also known as diesel-VM
Diesel-handkle on treplankar
Before skøytedelen of jaktstarten believed Norway they were alone about to bet on the diesel. When the race eventually was in time, it appeared that all had understood that it was diesel that worked best under the ski.
Along the trail stood smørjarar ready to reingjere ski with diesel on the way in the race.
Also, the FIS (the international Skiforbundet) was in shock and in villreie. After every one was forbidden with the help of the other in the trails.
Then it took smøreteama grip and let out treplankar as the weaver fine innsausa in diesel around, along the trail.
Then be able to løparane glide over dieselhandkleda to remove the worst of the muck.
Erling Jevne vekslar to Bjørn Dæhlie at the tredjeetappe. Norway water relay best by over 40 seconds.
Photo: Bjørn pension funds confederation of / NTB Scanpix
Bjorn Daehlie remember also the world cup days in 1995 very well. He telling about the hectic work in the kulissane, where they eventually understood that it was not the usual skismurning who seemed. What was important was to have a completely clean ski, and not festevoks that attracted moisture.
In one of the pour went completely crazy when he was on the road to go over one of the boards with dieselhandkle.
– I went out in the edge of the trail to hit one of the boards, then act I through, went on snørra and broke one ski. So it was completely chaos. I have never been on such a phenomenon, told Daehlie in the NRK tv-show Gold from sportsarkivet last weekend.
No gullfest for Norway
Before femmila on meisterskapets the last day, should Arild Monsen and medsmørar Per Knut Aaland as usual out to go the same distance. Before start decide them to try a stunt.
They shall go on ski without using the diesel.
It was 15 degrees in the air and they went in shorts. They just wanted to see how crazy it could be. After having spent two hours on the 16 kilometres to go it is almost not to come anymore.
They have zero glide and even with the skøyteski on the legs they can stroll in the classic diagonal style is right up the brattaste on the hills. The black the snow let up as large klabbar under the ski.
Thomas Alsgaard went stafettlaget to The only langrennsgull in Thunder Bay. Meisterskapet will still remember the best for it løparane had under the ski. (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne and Bjørn Dæhlie went three of the first etappane)
Photo: Gunnar Lier / NTB Scanpix
After a quarter, it was the big fabrikkområda around the city, which was released for the polluted snow and the very challenging smøreforholda.
Meisterskapet which afterwards are recalled the best as the diesel-the world cup was no great success for the Norwegian langrennsløparane.
One year after the party at Lillehammer, where Norway took three individual gold. Thunder Bay got its only gold on the relay with Thomas Alsgaard on the ankeretappen.
Femmila that the best is being recalled for dieselklutane, water, Italian Silvio Fauner with Bjorn Daehlie at the sølvplass.
Source: : “First trail – the Story of cross-country skiing in Norway “, Thor Gotaas (2003).
On the final femmila even it with gold to Italy, and Silvio Fauner. Bjorn Daehlie took the silver, before his Kazakh rival, Vladimir Smirnov.
Photo: NTB Scanpix
