Five time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain is reported to have had a VO < sub > 2 </ sub > max of 88. 0 at his peak, while cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie measured at 96 ml / kg / min.

Dæhlie attributes much of his success in sports to his upbringing where he was active in hunting, fishing, hiking, kayaking, football and of course, skiing from a very early age.

In 2009 Dæhlie raced in the American Birkebeiner as a fundraiser for multiple sclerosis.

* Bjørn Dæhlie, cross-country skier with most world medals ( 29 medals in the Olympics and World Championships ) and Winter Olympic record of 8 gold and 4 silver medals

Dæhlie won a total of 29 medals in the Olympics and World Championships in the period between 1991 and 1999, making Dæhlie the most successful cross-country skier in history.

In 2011, Dæhlie won the downhill event in the Kicksled World Championships in Hurdal.

One of the legends in cross-country skiing competitions is Bjørn Dæhlie ( Norway ).

In a test performed by his physiologist, Erlend Hem, Dæhlie made a VO < sub > 2 </ sub >- max of 96 ml / kg / min of O < sub > 2 </ sub >, a world record.

Bjørn Dæhlie won three gold medals in cross-country skiing, making him the most-winning Winter Olympic competitor ever.

Norwegians won every male cross-country skiing race, with Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang both collecting three gold.

Bjørn Erlend Dæhlie ( born 19 June 1967 ) is a Norwegian businessman and retired cross-country skier.

With 8 olympic gold medals, Dæhlie is the most successful winter olympic champion of all time.

During his career, Dæhlie measured the highest Vo2 max ever recorded, at 96 ml / kg / min.

In addition to being an athletic figurehead, Dæhlie is a cultural icon in Norway.

Since retiring, Dæhlie has become a successful businessman in real estate and fashion.

Dæhlie has been featured in advertising campaigns, he started a brand of signature ski apparel, and he co-hosted a television show called Gutta på tur.

Dæhlie also invented the Salomon Nordic System Pilot Bindings.

Born in Elverum, Norway, Dæhlie later moved to Nannestad, where he settled down.

For much of his childhood Dæhlie wanted to be a football player, but after being prompted by a coach, he tried Nordic skiing.

A career-ending roller skiing accident in 2000 prevented Dæhlie from adding more medals to his collection.

Despite his unanticipated early exit from the sport, Dæhlie is considered by many to be the greatest Winter Olympic athlete of all time.

Dæhlie competed in the classic race, which is 54 km long, finishing second in a photo finish.

Also in 2011, Dæhlie announced a comeback, stating his intention to participate in long distance races like Marcialonga and Vasaloppet.

The only other athlete to win three gold medals was Norwegian skier Bjørn Dæhlie, who won four medals overall, making him the first Winter Olympian to win twelve career medals, eight of which were gold.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

but many historians maintain that except for Northern meddling it would have ended in states like Virginia years before it did.

With all his musical activities, did he have the time and inclination to do anything else??

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.

Deciding to become a painter, he entered the studio of Gerome in Paris, where he enjoyed the life of the artists, but soon found that whatever talent he might have did not lie in that direction.

Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

Mr. Watson did not have much humor in his make-up, but he managed a mirthless smile.

The Hetman did have friends, but they were mostly outside the newspaper profession.

You have just given me permission to leave France, which I did.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

& synce I did write unto him to dessier him to paie 10 for mee which standeth mee greatly uppon to have paide.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.

The tiny hamlet of Chesterton to the north, with the fens and marshes lying on down the Ouse River, may have attracted him often, as it did many other youths of the time.

The favorite excuse of those who have now recanted their approval of communism is that they did not know how things would develop.