Articles from September 2010
Sep 14, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Kevin Sweeney was at the helm the last time that the University of Utah won an NCAA skiing championship, in 2003. So it’s only logical that the Utes would turn to Sweeney to help them win their next one.
Sep 14, 2010
- SUN VALLEY, ID (Sept. 14) – World Championship medalist
Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) was a...
Sep 14, 2010
- The three-time defending NCAA Champion University of Denver ski team traveled to Washington, D.C., to visit the White House for a ceremony on Monday, September 13.
Sep 13, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Actovegin, the drug Russian cross-country skier Nikolai Pankratov was allegedly caught with last week, is old news, according to experts in the field of anti-doping. But it w...
Sep 13, 2010
- Have the fame and glory, not to mention untold riches, of a cross-country ski journalist called to you? Does the life of a jet setting celebrity reported fill your dreams?
Sep 13, 2010
- Lindsey Van of the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team returned to the Continental Cup the weekend of Sept. 11-12 in Lillehammer, Norway, resuming high-level international compet...
Sep 13, 2010
- Jessica Jerome of the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team found her way back onto the podium, while teammate Lindsey Van made a successful return to Continental Cup competition o...
Sep 13, 2010
- NORWAY – When Russian skier Nikolay Pankratov was caught on the Swiss border with intravenous equipment and 22 vials of actovegin, nobody was more shocked than Martin Joh...
Sep 13, 2010
- NORWAY – Bjoern Daehlie spills the beans about interval training in the 1990s.
Sep 10, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Nikolai Pankratov faces a two-year ban from competition after being caught with intravenous equipment and 22 vials of actovegin, a drug derived from calf’s blood.
Sep 10, 2010
- Skadi Nordic is proud to be a supporter of the Southern Maine Biathlon Club (SMBC). Skadi Nordic will be providing a set of the Skadi Nordic product line to each athlete on t...
Sep 10, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - FasterSkier checks in with the U.S. Ski Team from their dryland camp in Sun Valley, where athletes have shifted their focus from volume to intensity. The camp will feature th...
Sep 10, 2010
- Rossignol / Oneway are excited to introduct the new DS10 pole. The new DS 10 pole has a 100% carbon super light shaft with a new titanium coated carbon insert making the pole...
Sep 9, 2010
- The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) has applied for ski orienteering to be included in the programme of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Sep 9, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Can a 23-year-old cross-country skier stifle rationality and brave the novice ski jumping hill in Lake Placid? FasterSkier's Nat Herz takes a trip to upstate New York to find...
Sep 9, 2010
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Sep 8, 2010
- Fischer Skis announced today that five of the seven U.S. Ski Team cross-country athletes will race on Fischer skis for the next two years.
Sep 8, 2010
- By Linnaea Kershaw - Former National Team Sprinter, Drew Goldsack shares his favorite pro-workout: power lifting in the gym.
Sep 8, 2010
- By Kieran Jones - Kikkan Randall checks out Canada's newest initiative to keep more young women in elite cross country skiing.
Sep 8, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - FasterSkier takes a look at the Grasshopper camps organized by the New York Ski Educational Foundation, in which dozens of youngsters learn the fundamentals of ski jumping.