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Tonight, I can promise you a contest you've never seen before. Welcome to "Who can beat Aamodt and Kjus?"
Today, there are two talented musicians who would be allowed to test themselves against our so to say unbeatable skiers.
And you will meet these musicians soon. But first to the icing on the cake.
Welcome to Kjetil Andre Aamodt and Lasse Kjus!
- Yes, it looks like you are in great shape today. - Yes absolutely, I feel light-footed today.
- Good. - It's good to know.
This week you will test yourself against musicians. What do you think about that?
It depends on what kind of musicians it is, whether it is big opera singers who are strong or if there is such light tiny once, or what one might call it.
But maybe they're very persistent.
It is two talented entertainers, musicians and singers you will meet this evening.
From the Barratt Due Institute of Music and the Grand Prix comes tonight Alexander Rybak and Didrik Solli-Tangen.
Alexander Rybak played and sang his way into the Norwegian hearts and European charts when he swept all of the court
and secured Norway the 3rd victory ever in the ESC last year.
This year, his buddy Didrik Solli-Tangen took over the baton and won the national Eurovision Song Contest with his captivating voice.
They are well-rested with great optimism, similar high odds, and bet everything on winning tonight's contest.
- Yes, boys. It was quite an entrance I have to say. - Thank you, I'm tired already.
We have to work a bit with the image. Get a more tough image.
It looks very, very good, but it so that you have taken with you a secret helper here tonight, and why have you chosen to do that?
There are many physical things we do here tonight, and if we have the possibility to have a wildcard…
- An ace in the arm. - If so, we have chosen the perfect one, if we need him.
And that's the way that it goes, if you feel that you need him, you can use this wildcard one of the evening's events, but only on one.
But we will come back to if it becomes relevant.
Then it is ready for Melodi Grand Prix against the Olympic Games. Let's kickstart the evening's first rehearsal.
"Mini excavator"
Yes, we're fond of excavators in this program, but tonight we have gone for a slightly smaller variant, and what will they be used for, Gunnar Grimstad?
Yes, Henriette, a participant from each team go with a pallet truck with a box on.
They will first run out of the studio and through a course before they leave their cart. Then they will use their mini excavator to burst six balloons.
Then they dig up 3 leaden weights which shall be placed on the pallet trolley, which will be towed back to the studio.
First man back wins the exercise.
Didrik you're from Porsgrunn, How much digger driving did you do growing up there?
I remember that I had such a small excavator when I was a kid in the sandbox, although it was not a motor.
It was like that as you went back and forth. And I spent a lot of time with that.
It means perhaps that it is Didrik who will be "in the fire" at this competition.
- Yes, it's me to be "in the fire". - Good, Okay.
- Lasse? - Yes.
have tried the excavators earlier in the competition. There have been varying degrees of success. Is it time to the opportunity to Kjetil?
- No, no, I think not. - I can not use motorized vehicles.
Kjetil's big handicap is the motor and the joystick, and here we get both at once, and that cant fall out in a good way.
Get ready for the first exercise. And you can go and sit at the break table.
Enjoy.
Then we are ready, and now it is Didrik Solli-Tangen against Lasse Kjus. Let us see how this goes.
Ready, steady, go!
Full speed out, and Lasse is leading on the way out of the studio. Didrik follows elegantly and easy straight after.
But what is going on? Lasse loses his case, and Didrik is not sorry for that. There is still a small run up to where they can park the truck,
and Lasse have to hurry if he does not want to end up far behind.
Now he is on the move, and Didrik has got a great head start, and now he is entering his excavator, and then he has to burst balloons.
Now we have the part of the exercise where Lasse has favor. He can do excavators, while Didrik is relatively new to this area.
Running ahead, get control of the levers, and now we can see that Lasse has taken on the neglected already. And the first cracks.
What about Didrik? He also cracked his, but he has not completely control the levers. Lasse takes number two, and then what do you do now Didrik?
There goes his number two. It's great. Lasse leads so far, and Didrik follows very well with.
And there is Lasse ready with a new one and Didrik is ready with a new one. Very close race, awesome.
But Lasse lose one there, and Didrik take advantage of it and cracks his. Lasse comes up, and there is Didrik finished and then Lasse is finished.
Now to the next task. 3 large lead weights to be dug out of the ground and placed into the trolley
which will be taken back to the studio as fast as possible when all 3 weights are in, and Didrik struggling, this is something he don't handle,
while Lasse has been have been involved with excavators before, and he finds the weights. He has to dig up some pebbles.
But he knows what to do, and he can handle the controls. Didrik can not.
Didrik is deeply concentrated, but I think he is too far behind.
Damn, there were only two levers on the one I had.
And then the first is in the box, two more and he can start running into the studio.
Don't forget anything this time, Lasse. You tend to forget things. We have that seen previously. That was the last one, and Lasse is heading for the studio.
And Didrik is capitulating? He is too far behind. This is terribly heavy, but Lasse does not have to take out the last effort.
He has an obvious lead of Didrik, who have not yet managed to dig up all the lead weights.
And the cheers for Lasse rise as he approaches the studio, and Didrik has not given up yet. He keeps on. And Lasse finishes.
Should I just leave it or what?
- That's good, Lasse! - Congratulations, Lasse! Didrik is entering now.
- I did not have a chance. - You did your best.
Didrik, you did very well for a long time. What happened?
When I came to the excavator it all went wrong. I only had two levers on the one I had when I was young, and it was just like this up and down.
- No need to despair, this exercise gave just one point. - The most important point.
Aamodt and Kjus grab the first point and leads 1-0.
And our point system is still complicated, so it's probably best that we get a proper explanation from you, Gunnar Grimstad.
With this complicated points system, the winner can't be announced until far into the system, and it is as follows:
The first exercise gives one point, number two gives two points , and number 3 gives 3 points, and so on until the 11th exercise, which gives a total of 11 points.
It will be awarded a total of 66 points, and the first team to get 33 points won.
We're going to quiz table and exercise No. 2.
"Quiz the table. Fact or Joke "
Yes it is time for the joke or the facts, it is the evening's first quiz exercise. And which one of you are "in the fire"?
Do you know what, Didrik? I was quite speechless and more exhausted then you, just by sitting there cheering for you.
I wonder if you should step down, with a quiz exercise, now that already are getting started.
So I get the chance to do it? Okay, then I'm on again.
Good. What about you - joke or fact.
- We've probably lost all of jokes or facts so far. - Just to not sick you out.
But you need to rest, Lasse. I will give it a try.
Okay, then it is Kjetil against Didrik. Let's go to the quiz board.
In front of you you have two buttons, one marked with joke and one with facts.
I'm going to come with a variety of claims, and then it is up to you if I speak the truth or if I'm lying.
And if you answer correctly, you get one point. Here you can both get points. And the first one to 5 points wins.
- Good luck, Didrik. - Good luck.
There we go!