Kikkan Randall kept on rolling, turning in a career-best 14th place distance performance in Falun, Sweden. Randall was in the main pack for the entire 10km pursuit, and in position to finish significantly higher. She has been posting excellent result after excellent result since the beginning of the Olympics, and is now 16 overall in the World Cup Final standings. It seemed like it was pretty warm over there today, how did the snow hold...
Falun, Sweden – The sight of Petter Northug (NOR) powering away from the field in the final meters of a race has almost become predictable. The Norwegian star once again used his brutal finishing punch to claim victory in the 20km pursuit, and gain a significant margin in the overall World Cup Finals’ standings. Northug started quickly and won the first intermediate sprint to gain 15 bonus seconds. He then dropped back in the pack,...
Falun, Sweden – For the second time in a week, the Norwegian women swept the World Cup podium, with Marit Bjoergen, Kristin Stoermer Steira, and Therese Johaug taking the top three spots. Kikkan Randall (USA) had a career-best distance finish of 14th in the 10km pursuit event. The impressive Norwegain trio finished in the same order seven days ago in Oslo in the 30km mass start. In that race they broke away relatively early and...
Two athletes, two races, four wins. Saturday morning, Germany’s Simone Hauswald and France’s Martin Fourcade each took their second consecutive biathlon World Cup victory in Oslo, this time in the 10/12.5 k pursuit. Their results come after victories in Thursday’s sprint. In the pursuit races, athletes start in the order of their finish in the sprint, so to have repeat winners wasn’t unprecedented. In the women’s event, though, all three podium places were identical to...
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Vermont won the team title at the 2010 Eastern High School Championships, with Vermont athletes Kalle Jahn and Mary Kate Cirelli taking the overall titles.
Sometimes, pretty good is good enough, and in Saturday’s races at the North American Biathlon Championships, that was the case. Despite a smattering of misses by each of them, Tracy Barnes-Colliander and Wynn Roberts skied to convincing wins in the 12.5/10 k pursuit. Walt Shepard and Marc-Andre Bedard took second and third in the men’s race, while Claude Godbout and Annelies Cook rounded out the women’s podium. “I was a little disappointed with my shooting...
div divdivdivdivdivLike Nate I've been pretty lazy since the Birkie. In the past couple of years I've had additional races after the Birkie and we've had good snow sometimes into April. This year, unless one was willing to travel, the ski season ended abruptly since the heat wave that began on Birkie Saturday rapidly consumed all the greaa href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UjbPla5DI/AAAAAAAAAAs/wWZLEQlneho/s1600-h/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+005.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450801874948777010" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UjbPla5DI/AAAAAAAAAAs/wWZLEQlneho/s320/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+005.jpg" border="0" //at snow we got this winter./divbr /divNevertheless, I still strapped on the skis for one last weekend on snow. On Friday the 12th Angie and Dave talked me into driving to Elm Creek. It was raining and probably in the high 30s or low 40s and as I put my boots on I was thinking about how pathetically desparate we must be to drive 35 minutes to ski in these conditions. But the track was surprisingly decent. I had wanted to practice warm weather kick waxing so I put some universal klister on and WOW! It felt like roller skiing - great kick with almost no push of the foot while still delivering great glide. Now I know what everyone means when they talk about how nice klister skiing can be. Not sure if I'll ever have a chance to use it in a race but it was pretty nice that day - a great way to finish up classic skiing for the year. /divbr /divOn Sunday I returned with Jeff and Claire and we had a blast playing ski tag and just skiing around. This time it was sunny and highs got up into the 60s. The snow really was still pretty good so I'm glad we got out for one last ski./divdiva href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UgbeG4DTI/AAAAAAAAAAU/6CoB2e-Jx0M/s1600-h/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+012.jpg"/aa href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UkCgPWEsI/AAAAAAAAAA0/t6nASvoF3Qw/s1600-h/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+022.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450802549434487490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 282px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UkCgPWEsI/AAAAAAAAAA0/t6nASvoF3Qw/s320/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+022.jpg" border="0" //a/diva href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UijP6pUAI/AAAAAAAAAAk/GCc8f95mwYQ/s1600-h/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+020.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450800912965128194" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UijP6pUAI/AAAAAAAAAAk/GCc8f95mwYQ/s200/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+020.jpg" border="0" //abr /br /diva href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UgbeG4DTI/AAAAAAAAAAU/6CoB2e-Jx0M/s1600-h/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+012.jpg"/a /divbr /div/divbr /br /br /diva href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aqG2j4_GXQA/S6UgbeG4DTI/AAAAAAAAAAU/6CoB2e-Jx0M/s1600-h/Spring+skiing+at+EC+3-09+012.jpg"/a /div/div/div/div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-6160437548013174537?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
I swear if you looked at these results you would have thought it was a mis-print because they resembled the results from last weekends mass start races at Holmenkollen. The Norwegian perform another convincing sweep of the podium while Northug out-sprint fellow competitors for the win. Bjørgen and Northug each ski a very different tactical [...]
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img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl5hlaZyN1qzt3xbo1_500.jpg"/br/br/pBiathlon suits are typical in the Fort Kent grocery store. (via HB)/p
a href="http://www.summitcountysheriff.org/jail/bookings.html"Yikes./a
“When you’re given special circumstances, you have special responsibility.”br/br/ - em(CEO of US Skiing) Bill Marolt via the Denver Post on an a href="http://www.denverpost.com/meyer/ci_13947644"article/a prepping for the 2010 winter games./em
““Scotty Lago is a great athlete, but with that comes a responsibility of proper conduct, and his involvement in this situation is not acceptable.”br/br/ - emBill Marolt on the Scotty Lago’s party a href="http://191review.com/scott-lago-party-pics.html"pictures/a following Lago’s 2010 medal./em
“I was struck by the concern he felt about the impact his comments had on his family, kids, and others who look up to him and that he took full responsibility for what he said.””br/br/ - em Bill Marolt in 2006 on Bode Miller’s “Skiing Hungover” comments./em
img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzl1at0Yod1qzt3xbo1_500.jpg"/br/br/pMarolt: arrested for DUI, March 17, 2010 (via Summit County Sheriff’s a href="http://www.summitcountysheriff.org/jail/bookings.html"Office/a)/p
img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzm4irPqt11qzt3xbo1_500.jpg"/br/br/pSome reading from the a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2010/03/20/2010-03-20_us_ski_team_boss_charged_with_dui_in_utah.html"NY Daily News./a/p
a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/sports/18paralympics.html"NYT on Andy Soule (click here)/a