STEINBACH-HALLENBERG, Germany (Aug. 29) – Three-time Olympian Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO), enjoying the best preseason of his career, finished third Sunday in a sprint event, the final nordic combined Summer Grand Prix contest, as he clinched the overall title. Johnny Spillane (also Steamboat) was 10th in the finale and finished third overall. “It's been a fun few weeks and I'm definitely psyched,” said Lodwick, who was third two years ago in the Grand Prix, second...
Kangaroo Hoppet 14 August 28, 2004 Falls Creek, Australia Conditions were just about perfect today for the 2004 Kangaroo Hoppet at Falls Creek in North-East Victoria. In a day of exciting racing and close finishes local skier Ben Derrick from Falls Creek smashed the previous course record, completing the 42km event in the smoking time of 1:35:10. The women's 42km event came down to a sprint, with Templestowe's Clare-Louise Brumley winning over KT Calder from...
WANAKA, N.Z. (Aug. 25) – Waxing tech Andrew Cesati curled an early kick into the cross country team's goal Tuesday and the men's alpine group held off the nordics for a 1-0 victory in the second annual Alpine-XC soccer match Down Under. “Alpine opened hard,” said Trond Nystad, cross country head coach, “and outplayed us in the first 15 minutes. The next 15 were more even and the last 15 were more in cross-country's favor.”...
Borre Naess has won three out of four rollerski races this summer. Will he become Norway’s next big sprinter?
Sometimes the best laid plans can go to waste. With the big snowfalls that have hit Australia this season, areas which are often marginal in normal seasons have suddenly become fit to groom. So organisers started to eye off the Prussian Flat area at Perisher Valley to run the Australian Distance Championships around. Normally it has only a light cover but this year it has been thick white blanket all season and it presented beautiful...
Lorentz Soderhjelm was contracted and tied up by the Swedish Ski Federation last season. He recently broke off that relationship and the Norwegian team jumped on the opportunity to test his grinds. Soderhjelm was so successful in grinding skis for Swedish skiers that the Swedish federation contracted him prior to last season to make sure that he didn’t grind skis for other nations. Soderhjelm has now chosen to be independent again. – I wasn’t paid...
These days I ski race for the fun of it. I train because I enjoy it. Still, there is a part of me that misses the days when I was a full-time ski racer. One thing I miss most is training camp. I loved being able to get away from my daily routine of work and training for a week or two, solely to focus on skiing and becoming a faster skier. It was mentally...
The August issue of Fasterskier.com’s Club subscription service was sent to subscribers on August 20. The Club provides detailed, in-depth coverage of modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country. Most of the Club’s articles will cover issues related to training and racing, and will also include material for all ages and abilities, from World Cup skiers’ training to important elements of youth and age group training and skiing. The August issue This month...
The Norwegian cross country national teams left for altitude training camps in central Europe on Monday this week. The plan is obliviously to become better, but the women, the men’s regular team and the sprint team are all using different theories for how to utilize altitude and become better. The women’s team left for Seiser Alm, Italy and 1800-meters altitude. They will do no on-snow skiing. The plan calls for only dryland training. The men’s...
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SEARCHING to replace the skier of the year Daily Utah Chronicle – Salt Lake City,UT,USA … Cross country skier Henning Dybendal will not rejoin the team this season after his stellar … Norway to try and compete for the national team,” U ski head coach … NORTH American skiers make tracks Otago Daily Times – Dunedin,New Zealand … The cross-country ski event had races of 7km, 21km or 42km. The international men's teams chose the...
World Cup skier Vibeke Skofterud (Norway) was driving on the freeway from Drammen to Oslo last week when the cars in front slowed down to a stop. Skofterud stopped as well but the car behind didn’t and jammed into Skofterud’s car from behind at approximately 40 miles per hour, according to the 20-year old male driver. Skofterud’s car is still drivable while the other car was totaled. The other driver walked away with no injuries...
World Cup skier Havard Bjerkeli (Norway) is struggling to train as he desire because of on-going back pains. Havard broke his foot when he was 3-years old. He has grown taller than most people following this, but the problem is that one leg has grown a little longer than the other. This obliqueness has transferred to the back, and its causing problems.
Norwegian cross country Sports Director, Bjornar Hakensmoen says in a statement that Unni Odegaard’s recent accident where she was hit by a car while rollerskiing should be a wake-up call for those who are too lazy or dumb to not use a helmet. Roy Odegaard, Unni’s father is not in doubt what saved his daughter in the collision last Sunday. – The helmet made the difference, he says. Unni had just started her workout when...
“Casey Jones you better watch your speed.†— Grateful Dead It’s the season for long rollerskiing trips. Duluth, MN rocks for that since we’re at the northern terminus of the Willard Munger Trail. 72 miles of paved trail on an old railroad bed. I like to start from the trailhead parking lot that’s behind the Munger Inn, west side of town. Appropriately, the first thing you do out of the lot is sidestep across some...
As reported on FasterSkier, Unni Odegaard was recently involved in an accident in Norway. She was hit by car from behind while rollerskiing. She was in a coma for two days and is currently in the hospital recovering and waiting for the results of a CT scan. Unni studied and ski raced for five years in the US, as a collegiate skier for the University of Colorado and also as a member of the Subaru Factory Team. Unni...
A group of Swedish and Norwegian runners, biathlon and cross country skiers got together in an attempt to not only win but also break the course record in the prestigious Ringeriks relay in Norway last week. The “unified†team succeeded, beat the other 185 teams and crushed the old course record. The old record was 2 hours, 12 minutes and 50 seconds while the new record is 2.08.47. Check out the credentials of the team...