Favourable conditions draw around 1,000 to annual Birkebeiner

Jacob Wouters was distinct in his leaf-green jacket and black trousers against the iridescent white snow. His aluminum chair gleamed in the sun.
The national anthem was sung. The moose horn sounded. And like an arrow from a bow, Wouters was off Saturday 50 kilometres east of Edmonton in the Canadian Birkebeiner at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village.
This was Wouters’ third year as a sit-skier, in the more than a decade that he’s been participating in the Birkebeiner.
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