Racing through history
By Erik Nilsson in Changchun | China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-10 07:29
An international competition based on a 500-year-old Swedish folktale comes to Northeast China.
He was skiing - for his life.
Swedish nobleman Gustav Ericsson Vasa raced 90 kilometers through timberlands on skis to escape the army of Danish king Christian II - aka "Christian the Tyrant" - in 1520, the story goes.
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