ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 2月5日 13時30分

“Cross-country skiing is the least glamorous, least pyrotechnic, least watchable of the major Olympic sports,” Sam Anderson writes in @nytmag’s #Olympic issue. “It is notoriously, almost inhumanly, exhausting — a brutally sustained nonthrill. Its longest races drag on for more than 2 hours. Even the sport’s greatest champions, over the course of an event, average speeds that would be legal in a school zone. In the racers’ slowest patches, struggling up terrible hills, schoolchildren could probably outrun them.” So why would anyone do it? And why on earth would we ever watch? Because “cross-country skiing expresses something deep about the human condition,” Sam writes, “the absolute, nonnegotiable necessity of the grind.” Or in other words, “the purity and sanctity of the goddamn slog.” @gilesinfo of @instituteartist took this #aerial photo of #skiers taking their positions before the start of the men’s 15-kilometer pursuit race at the World Cup in Toblach, Italy, in December. Visit the link in our profile to read more in @nytmag about cross-country skiers, the existential heroes of the Olympics. #? #NYTXXIII

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