Kowalczyk’s crystal ball

26th February 2011

Kowalczyk starts as the season’s best skier

Share:

Justyna Kowalczyk began her pursuit of five gold medals in the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Oslo this Thursday with a 5th place in the sprint, while the gold medal was won by her arch-rival, the Norwegian Marit Bjoergen.

Kowalczyk begins the World Championships safe in the knowledge that she is already the season’s best skier, winning the Crystal Ball for the best points score in World Cup events this winter. This is her third such title in a row.

Kowalczyk’s hopes for the sprint element of the cross-country skiing were always the lowest – having never finished higher than 31st in the sprint of a major championships, so this result represented a major improvement. “I’ ...

The full text of articles over six months old is only available to members of My NPE

NPE Premium - go beyond the news

Poles you should know - Jan Potocki A Polish literary legend

Most Western readers have never heard of Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki – indeed his singular masterpiece was only translated into English in 1995, some 180 years after it was completed. ... -

Freie Stadt Danzig 1920 – 1939. Gdansk as a free city state

Zap yourself back some 80 years and where you today find the city of Gdansk you would have found yourself standing in the Free City of Danzig, an independent state ... -


Username
Password
	or	Register