We had a wonderful, wintry Thanksgiving at Silver Star. Big classic ski in the am and an easy skate session in the afternoon. Light snow, cold temperatures, it's a winter wonderland with lots of smilling faces on the trail. Thinking o...
The Kuusamo mini-tour opened with a bang for the North American contingent, as both Andy Newell and Alex Harvey skied into the top ten for the first time this season. Newell, who had a lackluster 15k in Gallivare last weekend but a strong opening relay leg for the United States, qualified in eighth position and ultimately finished sixth after making the A-Final. Harvey had a mediocre weekend in Gallivare, finishing 34th in the skate race...
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The race action started today at 10:45 this morning with ladies sprint followed immediately by the men. Today’s format included a qualification round from which the top 30 are distributed into 5 heats of 6 skiers. The top 2 skiers from each skier and the next two fastest skiers advance to the semi-finals. From the semi-finals, the top two skiers from each heat and two lucky losers advance to the final. The weather remains close...
After last Sunday's race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.This was my first European World Cup race of my life!This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a toug...
After last Sunday's race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.This was my first European World Cup race of my life!This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a toug...
After last Sunday's race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.This was my first European World Cup race of my life!This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a toug...
After last Sunday's race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.This was my first European World Cup race of my life!This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a toug...
The US Ski Team nordic combined crew delivered a mixed bag of results at the provisional round in Kuusamo, Finland.
View Selected Photos from the SuperTour Sprint in West Yellowstone It was a cold one! Also the sprint course was mostly uphill. There were some hurtin’ puppies out there at the end. Despite not being used at the World Cup level, I’m sure there are some merits to this race format. Click Toko US is now on facebook.
Canmore, Alberta – Are you looking for a unique holiday gift idea this year? If yes, then offer the gift of health, wellness and fun by signing up a girl friend to the 2011 Fast and Female Women’s New Year Fit-Fest to be held on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at Canmore’s (AB) Athletic Evolution Gym. “Last year’s event was a tremendous success,” said Chandra Crawford, Fast and Female Founder, President and 2006 Olympic gold medallist. “We...
Several racers will skip the rest of the World Cup minitour in Kuusamo because they are unsatisfied with the concept.
As promised, race snapshot graphs today’s sprint races. First the reduced versions (top 30, plus North Americans) and the full versions are below the fold (the names on those might be a bit small; there were a lot of racers!). Updated: Bit of a mishap with some of the athlete’s names created some errors. Fixed [...] Related posts:
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For the US nordic combined team, the FIS World Cup opener in Finland leaves room for improvement. Demong was 32nd, Taylor Fletcher was 35th and Bryan Fletcher was 37th. Brett Camerotta was 40th after the jumping, but did not start the cross-country leg.
Last year, Noah Hoffman was just another young athlete on the U.S. Ski Team’s Continental Cup squad. He was in the pipeline, developing towards a bright future, and wrapped up the season with a couple of SuperTour podiums, a fifth-place finish at U.S. Nationals, and a great race in Switzerland that nobody heard about. At SuperTour Finals, he finished second in the hill climb, his most high-profile domestic result of the year. In other words,...
Thursday’s weather in West Yellowstone was a big improvement from earlier this week, but race timers still found themselves in a perfect storm during the season opening SuperTour races. Coaches and athletes were in the dark all afternoon Thursday, when results from the double sprint qualifier were delayed for hours due to timing snafus. Two different finish lines, a skeleton crew of volunteers due to the holiday, a tight racing schedule, and an overambitious timer...
