Wheelchair Skiing

Wheelchair roller skiing

This might help somebody. Saw two guys out on wheelchairs on the bicycle path next to the water at Frognerstranda. They were doing the wheelchair equivalent of classic style rollerskiing. They had short, standard issue cross country poles with carbide steel rollerski spikes on the tips. And they were mobile. They didn’t look at all like prototypical wheelchair athletes. To be frank, they looked old and out of shape. But they were effortlessly cruising along at a good clip.

I looked around on the Internet and found one image of someone in a wheelchair with ski poles. Seems like no one outside of Scandinavia has thought of this. Here in Norway it’s doesn’t take much of a stretch of imagination to hit on the idea. The streets and bike paths are crawling with rollerskiers making that annoying tack…tack….tack sound.

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