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Over the next three days, FasterSkier will be bringing you coverage from the mountain biking World Cup in Bromont, Quebec. We hope that our reporting will give a good perspective of another endurance and sprint sport at the elite level. The World Cup consists of three events: cross-country, which is a typical long-distance race; downhill, in which riders bomb down alpine ski trails; and four-cross, where four racers go head-to-head-to-head-to-head on a short (less than...
Central Cross Country Ski Association is proud to announce the formation of an innovative Adaptive Ski Program available for individuals with physical disabilities throughout the Midwest. CXC established a disabled ski program in 2005 by bringing the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team to the Madison, WI SuperTour event and purchasing one sit ski. Since that time, over 30 disabled individuals have participated in the program with 13 sit skis currently in use by CXC. The curriculum...
With 80cm in town at sea level and the biggest single snowfall in at least 10 years. These pics are at the Jerman, roughly 200 meters above Ushuaia.
pspan style="font-size:85%;" The other day I only made it to 'The Club for our quick Treasure Hunt. I had to take off early though in order to catch a plane to Canada. My teammate, Matt and I are joining a group of Canadian skiers to the Haig Glacier...
Yesterday afternoon the clouds cleared out and we have been treated to some fantastic weather here on the Haig. This week will be a [...]
SMS winter termer, Ashleigh Spittle is having an excellent winter at home in Australia. She is getting tons of compliments on her technique and her results. It looks as if all of her hard work is starting to pay off. Congratulations Ashleigh, we're all...
Last week, I mentioned the new Alaska Birkie bike race. I wrote that even though I thought it sounded like a fun race, I wouldn’t be able to do it this year. I also thought they should change the name of the race. Well, I just saw an announcement that this year’s race is cancelled because [...]
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Haig Glacier Skiing
Yesterday the skiing was alright. Today it was unreal. The beautiful weather helped. Great conditions for a July distance ski. Matt and [...]
Direct sales model to lower prices on one of the world’s leading ski wax brands. Boulder Nordic Sport (BNS) announced today an agreement with Holmenkol AG of Heimerdingen, Germany to distribute Holmenkol Nordic products in the USA. BNS takes over US distribution from UVEX Sports and will work alongside new Holmenkol distributors Sport Thoma (Alpine) and Montana (Backshop) to bring in the complete line of Holmenkol’s innovative ski waxes, tools and tuning products. BNS will...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has partnered with Chooseco, a publisher of interactive children’s books, to publish two titles focused on good decision-making and sport values. The objective of the books is to present the reader with difficult, realistic decisions in competitive sports, including choices about doping and cheating. The title aimed at younger readers (Always Picked Last) examines issues of cheating. The multiple choices in each title lead to multiple endings. In Track Star – for readers aged 12 years and...
Five competitions have already been held in the Roller Ski World Cup 2009. The three races in Orolavje, Croatia at the end of June were followed by two competitions in Markkleeberg (GER) in mid-July. On both weekends the athletes raced in excellent conditions in various competition formats including sprint, pursuit, uphill competitions and mass start races. Currently the leader of the men’s overall ranking is roller ski veteran Alfio Di Gregorio (ITA) with 295 points. The runner up on the men’s...
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object width="480" height="385"Every year Ben Husaby, the head coach of the Trout Lake Camp measueres up the group by seeing how many kids he can get to jump off a bridge in 1 minute. This year the group set a record of 55 kids. Watch out, the Pacific ...
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As I'm sure our avid readers are quickly learning, we of the MOD Squad consider elite-level ski training to be a multifarious, ever-evolving concept. We don't content ourselves with the standard "Mondays are off, Tues/Thurs are intervals, Sundays are O...