Running Cold - Iceland

200 days until opening of 2012 Olympic Games

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As global preparations for the London 2012 Olympics hot up, this beautifully shot report follows the Belgian athletics team on their extreme training - on the frozen wastes of an Icelandic glacier.

"I don't think I've experienced anything harder," athlete Kevin Borlee confesses. Battling storms and temperatures of minus 20 degrees, the expedition leader confesses, "it's a miracle that nothing went wrong". But enduring these extreme circumstances has advantages. The coach of the 4x400 team insists that, "extreme cold and deprivation are necessary to push one beyond his possibilities." Will the team prove him right in July's games?

January 2012

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[vkeightyfive]

It's weird how much of this I understand when I don't know Dutch and only just started seriously studying German. Yet my shitty French, that I've been trying to learn for years, is still horrid.

[izzygrain]

hahhaha cool get it???!!!

[izzygrain]

cool

[Brahoi1]

very well made,awesome video

[nhickification]

Nice video!

[booyamichelle]

@vickyr9909 you must be Australian. :P

[Lobos222]

@Zoddom

Its Dutch. You know, like the Netherlands.

[Zoddom]

yeah it sounds very german like, at first i thought it was just a strange german accent but then i realised its not ^^

[vickyr9909]

"It won'lt be too cold. It won't drop under minus fifteen at night. " FUCK !!! In my place, we consider it cold if the temperature drops below 20 degrees.

[IcelandOnlineCom]

It is for sure nice to watch it from the warm place afterwards!