Per Elofsson Has Retired
FasterSkierOctober 31, 2005
Swedish national team skier and former World Champion Per Elofsson (28) has retired. Here is why. Source: Langrenn.com
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Photos From Free Skiing In Lake Placid
FasterSkierOctober 31, 2005
For those of us who haven't been skiing yet (which is most of our readers), these are the last “Great Early Skiing In…” photos we will be posting (at least for a while). We don't want you gnawing your arm off in anticipation/frustration just yet. After all, it is still October. This report comes from Lake Placid, New York. The Olympic Trails of Mt. Van Hoevenberg celebrated their earliest opening in the venue’s history on...
Snow Storms Hits Northern Maine As Well
FasterSkierOctober 28, 2005
Yesterday we posted an article on early season skiing in New Hampshire. It appears that the storm continued eastward and also dumped over a foot of snow in Northern Maine as well. On Wednesday we received this email from Brian Olsen: We received a healthy dumping of 12-16″ of snow here at the 10th Mountain Ski Center in Fort Kent, Maine overnight. The snow started around 4 pm last night and kept at it throughout...
Highlights of Next Year's World Cup: Season Opener In Sweden, Tour de Ski, Worlds In Japan
FasterSkierOctober 28, 2005
The 2006-2007 World Cup schedule is still in the planning stage. See what it can end up looking like here! Source: Langrenn.com The sprint World Cup will again be in Düsseldorf, Germany while the distance Cup will start in Gallivare, Sweden. Here is what it might look like for the 2006-2007 season Period 1 October 28. 2006 Düsseldorf GER Sprint Freestyle October 29. 2006 Düsseldorf GER Sprint relay Freestyle November 18. 2006 Gällivare SWE 10...
Early Season Skiing In New Hampshire
FasterSkierOctober 27, 2005
It's that time of year when the snow reports start coming into FasterSkier.com. The lucky skiers who get to enjoy early season skiing usually send us pictures, which we share with the rest of the ski world as we all wait anxiously for our own dusting of the white stuff. This year had been off to a predictable start – reports of a snowstorm or two in the Rockies, skiing in Fairbanks, Alaska in mid-October...
Tour de Ski will start in 2007. The winner after eight hard competitions in ten days will take home US $125,000 and 400 World Cup points. Source: Langrenn.com The international ski president Gianfranco Kaspar is telling Eurosport that he is 90% sure that the Tour will be approved, even if the final decision won’t happen before November 7. The first competition will according to the plan be held in Munich, Germany on December 29, 2006,...
Dear Campers! Just a short update that I hope finds you in good health and ready for the XC season. It is a bit warm in the west but a big weather change is due this week-end. Everything seems to be right on time. All the trails have been brushed and mowed and are ready for the snow. We have had the first few organizing meetings for the Silver Star Mountain Night Sprints Dec 6....
Fischer Skis and Boots 2005/06
FasterSkierOctober 26, 2005
For 2005, Fischer introduces two new classic skis and makes widely available the new dimensional RCS Skating ski. The widely-successful Centrix boots return with upgrades that raise the performance bar even further. RCS CLASSIC WET Another introduction for 2005, this classic ski features a new construction– the 902 (again, a Fischer Factory mold number), and is more specialized than the RCS Classic Plus / Cold models. The RCS Classic Wet has been introduced slowly over...
Skiing at Sunshine Ski Village In Banff
FasterSkierOctober 25, 2005
Skiing at Sunshine! The pictures below provide a pretty good idea of what kind of treasure was found by some at Sunshine Ski Village in Banff, Alberta on Saturday October 22. Arrangements were made for a group of Canmore based skiers to get in some early season skiing on a beautiful and crisp morning in the Rockies. Members of Rocky Mountain Racers, Exel Racing Team, X-C.Com and XC Ottawa as well as a few others...
The Swedish first team of Thobias Fredriksson and Bjorn Lind was second in the sprint World Cup relay in Düsseldorf on Sunday. They skied a good race tactically and Bjorn Lind tried to crush the competition by skiing all out the entire last lap. Source: Skidsport.com — I would have liked to have him (Kjolstad) in front of me on the backside of the course where the headwind was strongest, but I was in front...
Johan Kjolstad disappointed in the individual World Cup sprint on Saturday. On Sunday he sprinted Norway’s second team to victory in the sprint relay.
Great Early Season Skiing At Hatcher Pass, Alaska
FasterSkierOctober 24, 2005
Brian Erickson, one of the coaches of the Alaska Winter Stars ski program in Anchorage, Alaska sent us these pictures of early season skiing at Hatcher Pass. Last weekend brought the first real good skiing to Southcentral Alaska. The Alaska Winters Stars took advantage of beautiful weather and perfect snow to log many hours of skiing at Hatcher Pass State Park. Along with the Winter Stars there were many other skiers from around Anchorage enjoying...
Gunde Svan Raced On 'Bluff' Skis
FasterSkierOctober 24, 2005
Gunde Svan Raced On 'Bluff' Skis Swedish ski star Gunde Svan won 37 World Cup victories on Kneissl skis in the eighties. Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten is now revealing that most of the victories were captured on bluff skis. Source: Skidsport.com/Glid Gunde Svan was loyal to Kneissl during all his years as an elite skier. But Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten is now revealing that most of his big victories, that also included two Olympic and five World...
Canada's Nordic Skiers Get Feet Wet in World Cup Kick Off
FasterSkierOctober 24, 2005
Düsseldorf, GER—Canada’s top nordic skiers got their feet wet — literally — while sprinting along the banks of the Rhine in their opening World Cup cross-country skiing sprint event of the season Saturday in Düsseldorf, Germany. With a goal of measuring where they stand against the world’s best at this time of year, the five Canadians who hit the start line for the sprint event should have exchanged their race suits for wet suits as...
On The Scene In Dusseldorf
FasterSkierOctober 23, 2005
Norway, Norway, Norway:: Today was without a doubt Norway´s day. In the women´s relay, the combination of veteran skier, Hilde Pedersen, and ski queen, Marit Bjoergen, easily mantained control through out the entire final, with Bjoergen putting down the hammer a few times and creating sizeable gaps. It seems as though Bjoergen is skiing at a completly different level than the rest of the women´s field. She is simply stronger and technically much more stabile....
The Norwegian second team won ahead of Sweden in Sundays World Cup freestyle sprint relay in Düsseldorf, Germany. Johan Kjolstad and Trond Iversen edgde out Sweden’s Thobias Fredriksson and Bjorn Lind and Norway’s first team with Eldar Ronning and Tor Arne Hetland for the victory. Canada’s team did not race. Source: Langrenn.com 1 NORGE II NOR 18:19.5 2 SWEDEN I SWE 18:19.6 3 NORGE I NOR 18:20.0 4 GERMANY I GER 18:21.2 5 GERMANY II...
Norway’s first team won ahead of their second team in the women’s World Cup sprint relay in Düsseldorf, Germany on Sunday. Russia was third. Hilde G. Pedersen and Marit Bjorgen skied on Norway’s winning team and Ella Gjomle and Guro Strom Sollie skied on their second team. The Swedish team was unlucky when their skier fell on the first lap. The Canadian team did not advance to the finale and placed 15th. Source: Langrenn.com Results:...