HURT swarms on Kingston

In the largest team showing ever, HURT nordic brought their depth and talent to the Kingston Nordic Rollerski Race and rolled away with the team title for the 4th straight year.  Expectations were high with most of HURT top guns making it down to the race and some of them sporting "technology enhanced" rollerskis.  It was looking especially exciting among the junior men as top guns Austin Huneck and Brian Halligan looked for their first of many opportunities to battle for the top spot this season and a speedy and fit Adam Luban and Seth Mares looking to spoil the party.  In the classic 5K the team was able to feast on the 2-9 spots across the finish line. It was a heartbreaking loss for Austin Huneck as he gave up the inside line on the final turn to allow his much more senior rival, Jospeh Iwan, to spoil the party for the HURT fans.  In the skate race, it was "HURT for a day" dad-extraordinaire who came to bat and snatched the 10K race from the hungry Iwan.  The skate rac was no picnic for the HURT-pack as the Manhattan Nordic trio of Donahue, Love and Herz stole the 5, 6 and 11 spot from the nine HURT skiers who made up the top 15. Director Kozoil was unable to make it down to the race but we caught up with him via satellite after the race.

HRT: Your wheel-doped dynamic duo fell a little short today. Do you take responsibility?  Are you setting yourself, your team and your skiers to be just another big "second-best" team?

Director Kozoil: "I resent this type of "gotcha-journalism". Have a little class like that guy on fasterskier who goes to Colombia. He was even there today....why don't you get him to run this interview...then it might be worth reading.  Anyway....no it's not my fault and my team has never been more ready this early in the season.  Yeah we had a couple bobbles here and there today...bad lines, missed attacks etc. but it is the warm up to the race season.  You don't see Petter Northug winning in Mounio do you? Trust me...we are going to be on this year.  We are bigger than ever, added more talent and are fired up for the snow season.  I loved what I saw from our new additions and it is game on.  My team is hungry for wins and this day will do nothing but fire us up."

Enjoy the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4IZoglbdKA