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Mini-series with focus on the Norwegian longdistance team: Tour de Ski should not be compared to Tour de France says a unified longdistance team. They would have liked to see that the first Tour de Ski was organized very differently than what FIS has decided. Source: Langrenn.com

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Mini-series with focus on the Norwegian long distance team: Longdistancespecialist Jorgen Aukland has gathered knowledge from some of the Worlds best sprinters in order to get even better. Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen http://www.fasterskier.com/Club/info.php

Dear CXC Skiing Members, It is time for the CXC Skiing Summer Meeting The CXC Board of Directors will hold their Summer Meeting from 4.00 PM to 7:30 PM Sunday, July 31st at the Cresthill Resort in Hayward, WI. Any CXC member can attend the CXC Skiing Summer Meeting. A proposed agenda is attached to this letter. Additional agenda items can be directed to Yuriy Gusev, Program Director or any board member. Please RSVP to...

AP Article: Skier grateful to survive pit bull attack in training run ROLLER SKIS: Car stopped to help, then owner called off dog. By DAN JOLING The Associated Press Published: July 21st, 2005 Last Modified: July 21st, 2005 at 02:28 AM Anders Gillis had a premonition that something bad was going to happen as he strapped on his roller skis for a training session. http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113%257E7244%257E2973145,00.html “It's always been at the end of its chain,” Gillis...

Last weekend I was able to get in on a skate rollerski threshold interval session with US Ski Team member Andrew Johnson. AJ had been training at home in Greensboro, Vermont for several weeks and was about to head off to Park City to meet up with the rest of the Team–the plan being to spend about a week training at elevation in Utah in order to be ready for their annual on-snow camp in...

Luke Bodensteiner, Nordic Program Director for USSA, recently informed us that the Italian National Ski Team will be holding a training camp in Park City, Utah from July 26-August 6. While their exact reasons for coming all the way to North America for a training camp are not known, Bodensteiner speculates that they want to hold an altitude camp in place where they can also train at low levels. They also might just want a...

It’s hard not to be noticed when you rollerski up Alp d’Huez Source: Langrenn.com The following article was recently printed in Journal des Alp d’Huez (this is the super shortened version): Locals and tourists couldn’t believe what they saw on July 8, 2005; a rollerskier coming up Alp d’Huez a few minutes ahead of the cyclists from the Discovery team. The rollerskier’s support car yelled out 1.14.47 when he crossed the finish banner. Was it...

Alaskan skier Anders Haugen did a MaxVO2 test using double-poling, skating and classic skiing in an uphill on rollerskis in Trondheim on Monday. Modern technology has now made it possible to do this testing outside of a lab environment, making it specific to the sport by using lightweight, high tech equipment and allowing athletes to do the test using terrain, techniques and equipment they normally use. When testing to determine O2 capacity, max heart rate...

Norwegian cross country sport Chief Bjornar Hakensmoen stated earlier this week that he wants fewer nations in international cross country skiing competitions. He hopes that this will increase the quality of the sport. The International Ski Federation (FIS) strongly disagrees with this, according to the Norwegian FIS representative Vegard Ulvang Background article: Bjornar Hakensmoen Wants Fewer Nations In World Cup

Dear FasterSkier.com readers, FasterSkier.com fully supports and recommends the use of helmets while rollerskiing. We have, over the years, posted a number of safety related articles encouraging helmet use and other safety precautions while training and especially while rollerskiing. As coaches, we normally require that the athletes we are working with wear helmets while rollerskiing. However, we sometimes use photos where the athletes have choosen to not use helmets. These athletes are adults and they...

Every good road trip must have a partner in crime. Colby Frazier’s my usual Southwest mate. Since turning in his running shoes after graduating from the University of Utah, Colby’s been writing for the Salt Lake Tribune. In August he heads west to Sideways country to learn the winemaking ropes from Longoria Winery (www.longoriawine.com). Could this be our last trip together to Southern Utah? I hope not. First day out, and we’re racing the sun...