Articles from October 2010
Oct 11, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - The International Ski Federation has convened a working group that will investigate the potential for doing away with the team sprint and replacing it on the schedule for major championships with a second individual sprint.
Oct 11, 2010
- The Second Annual Sun Valley Nordic Festival will take place January 29-February 6, 2011. The festival features 9 days of activities, races, clinics and fun events along wi...
Oct 11, 2010
- The Craftsbury Nordic Ski Club is pleased to announce the hiring of a new assistant coach, Marc Gilbertson. A resident of Vermont since childhood, Marc has been a teacher at ...
Oct 11, 2010
- It’s prime roller skiing season and these beautiful sunny days are the perfect training temperature for Nordic skiing while you are waiting for the weather to turn and the ...
Oct 11, 2010
- The U.S. Ski Team is offering two coaching positions for the 2011 J1 Scandinavian Cup Race Series. Both positions are fully funded by NCCSEF.
Oct 11, 2010
- The U.S. Ski Team is offering four coaching positions for the 2011 World Junior and U23 World Championships. All four positions are fully funded by NCCSEF
Oct 11, 2010
- OSLO, NORWAY – The Norwegian skiers have complained about the sprint course for the 2011 World Championships in Holmenkollen. Now the Swedes are joining the debate as well.
Oct 11, 2010
- The leader of the French cross-country skiing looks back at his excellent 2010 season. He also speaks about his coaches and teammates. Vincent is fully focused at future goal...
Oct 8, 2010
- With 53 entries in the FasterSkier Climb to the Castle pick the podium contest, the competition for the top spot was hotly contested. And when two dark horses cracked the p...
Oct 8, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Stymied in three previous attempts by inferior competition with superior rollerskis, Freeman left his teammate Noah Hoffman behind at halfway mark of this year’s edition of...
Oct 8, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Chalk one up for the biathletes. Just over halfway through Friday’s Climb to the Castle race, U.S. National Biathlon Team member Laura Spector went to the front of a five-...
Oct 8, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - The 30-year-old Canadian departed Thursday for a week-long stint in South America, to compete on the TV show Wipeout, in which participants navigate a series of obst...
Oct 7, 2010
- Mt. Borah Custom Nordic has recently solidified a partnership program with Rocky Mountain Racers, the premier Canadian sports organization for cross country skiing and biathl...
Oct 6, 2010
- There are workouts where you finish battered and beaten, muscles packed with lactate. And then, there are days when you just go out and ride your bike. Tad Elliott does 70 ...
Oct 5, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - A new event could feature five kilometers of uphill, followed by five kilometers of technical descending—perhaps even including slalom-style gates. A test race is in the wo...
Oct 5, 2010
- OSLO, Norway – Olympic champion Dario Cologna (SUI) is in Oslo to check out the courses that will be used for the upcoming World Championships in Holmenkollen.
Oct 5, 2010 - By Doug Haney, USSA
Oct 5, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - The annual Climb to the Castle Rollerski Race is just days away. Read the preview and pick the winners!
Oct 5, 2010
- Women ski jumpers are hoping this month they will finally get the nod from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that they will be included in the Olympic Winter Games be...
Oct 4, 2010
- By Kieran Jones - Chandra Crawford doesn't pull any punches when she describes her injury situation, the coaching changes on the Canadian team, and how she managed to get on MTV's
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