Cologna and Kowalczyk had barely set their new crystal globes down before the doping news started emerging yesterday.In Austria, "an unnamed cyclist and former Austrian Nordic ski coach Walter Mayer, who was involved in the 2006 Turin Olympics doping scandal, have been arrested in connection with new doping allegations." Though the cyclist is being called "K" rather than being named, that letter
a href="http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php"Why wouldn't a LIVE VOLCANO spoil US Nationals? (FYI the Airport closed today)/a
A lot more than I can post here... ...it's a fourteen page newsletter with lots of good information. a href="http://ultratune.net/pdfs/march2009newsletter.pdf" target="_blank"Take a look./adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='h...
a href="http://www.velonews.com/article/89527"Austrians involved in doping? Weird. /a
Reminds me of northern Maine about this time of year. Site of JOs in 2010!
The World Cup season is now over for another year and the athletes get a well deserved break before they resume preparations for Vancouver 2010. Today showed great excitement with the hunter style pursuit as Kowalczyk and Cologna attempted to wrap up t...
World Cup wrap up. Surprizing numbers. Far Banks. Photos. All ahead. Click for Preview...
World Cup wrap up. Surprizing numbers. Far Banks. Photos. All ahead. Click for Preview...
World Cup wrap up. Surprizing numbers. Far Banks. Photos. All ahead. Click for Preview...
Falun, Sweden – Justyna Kowalczyk became the first ever overall World Cup winner in cross-country from Poland today. She held off the competition in the final event of the season to win the World Cup Final. A hard charging Therese Johaug (NOR) was second, and Charlotte Kalla (SWE) took third in the 10km freestyle handicap start race. Kowalczyk started the 48 seconds ahead of Anna Olsson (SWE) and skied hard out of the start. Olsson,...
Falun, Sweden – Dario Cologna (SUI) had no problem maintaining his lead in the final World Cup race of the season, winning bot the the four event World Cup Final and the overall World Cup title. Vincent Vittoz (FRA)finished second, and Alex Harvey (CAN) skied up from 11th to 6th in the 15km freestlye handicap start. Cologna started the day with a 58 second lead on Alexander Legkov (RUS), and a 1:20 lead on Petter...
Trondheim, Norway, March 21. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) finished 13th in today’s 12.5K Pursuit competition at the Biathlon World Cup here, slipping four spots from his 9th place in Thursday’s Sprint. Burke, with three penalties, finished 1:14.8 behind Ole Einar Björndalen of Norway, who took the victory after shooting clean in the final standing stage. The “King of Biathlon” notched his 88th World Cup win in 33:36.3, with two penalties. At one point today,...
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The CXC Elite team is currently in Fairbanks, AK getting used to being cold again. The temperatures were rough when we got here, but 2 degrees felt pretty good today, so we must be acclimating. Our fingers are crossed for warmer weather by the first race on Tuesday. I will try to get my camera [...]
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After today's races, the chase for the overall Crystal Globe have once again been flipped on their head. Both Majdic and Northug had races to forget and those chasing them, namely Kowalczyk and Cologna, proved why they deserve to have a say in the matt...
Falun, Sweden – Dario Cologna took one step closer to winning the overall World Cup title, taking the victory in the 20km pursuit. Petter Northug struggled to 20th, and is well behind Cologna now in the World Cup Final standings. In the women’s race, Riita Liisa Roponen (FIN), won and Justyna Kowalczyk, overtook Petra Majdic in the fight for the World Cup title. Alex Harvey continued his impressive run, finishing 8th for the second consecutive...
The double pursuits put a gel wrapper in my klister, I'll tell you what. Who expected either Majdic or Northug to fall so far off the front? Nobody who made predictions for the double pursuits, that's who. Petra finished 24th, more than a minute down, which ruins her chances to win the overall World Cup title, since she'll be starting 1:06 behind Kowalczyk in Sunday's 10k freestyle pursuit.