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Soldier Hollow Hosts Super Qualifier
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Soldier Hollow Hosts Super Qualifier

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

The site of the 2002 Nordic Skiing Olympics hosted a Super Qualifier for the Junior National Championships on Jan 28-29. As a Super Qualifier, athletes from teams outside the region can also earn points toward qualifying for JNs, so in addition to all the teams from the Intermountain Division, teams from Rocky Mountain, Far West, Pacific Northwest, and other Divisions travelled to these races. This venue can easily handle the large number of competitors ....

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Mini-Tours Rock!

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

This weekend a couple of us went up to Orford, Quebec for a NorAm mini-tour and it was tons of fun. If you’re not familiar with the concept of a mini-tour, think of it as kind of like a three-day stage race in biking. The difference is that on the last day, everyone starts in [...]

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MWSC: The Wohnwagen Adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while looking for races to do mid-season. Myself and a couple good friends of mine were all looking for new opportunity through the month of February. Looking for great...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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The Wohnwagen adventure

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Being a biathlete has brought me more opportunity then I have ever imagined in my life. I have been able to travel places I never would have imaged and made some great friends from all over the world. This winter a new adventure came to life while lo...

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Kikkan Randall and Holly Brooks Inspire 200 Girls at the 2011 Fast and Female X-Country SkiFest

FasterSkierJanuary 31, 2011

Canmore, Alberta / Chugiak, Alaska – Three months ago, Alaska’s cross-country skiing superstar and Fast and Female ambassador – Holly Brooks. As planned, this past Saturday, 200 enthusiastic female skiers between the ages of 9 to 19 joined Randall and Brook at the Chugiak High School in Chugiak in Alaska for a unique afternoon of on-snow ski drills, inspirational presentations, dancing and yoga. “Our ski stations were the most fun yet,” admitted Randall who is enjoying...

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Kjorlien Leads North American Ladies Again at Biathlon World Juniors
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Kjorlien Leads North American Ladies Again at Biathlon World Juniors

Chelsea LittleJanuary 31, 20111

When American biathlete Kelly Kjorlien arrived in the Czech Republic for IBU Youth/Junior World Championships, she was confident – but she also came down with a cough. Has that slowed her down so far? No, not at all. After finishing 27th in Saturday’s youth women’s 6 k sprint, Kjorlien told FasterSkier that she was excited going into the pursuit, because shooting was her “strong point” and there were four shooting stages in which to best...

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U23 Pursuit Recap: Women

JoranJanuary 31, 2011

Just a quick follow up to my earlier post examining some of the North American men in today’s U23 pursuit, this time for the women. I’ll just focus on three ladies: Sadie Bjornsen, Caitlin Patterson and Alysson Marshall. Here’s the graph for Bjornsen: Today’s race (blue) seems neither much better nor much worse than she’s [...] Related posts:

  1. Davos Recap: Distance – North Americans
  2. La Clusaz Recap: North American Women
  3. U23s: 10/15km Freestyle

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Oestberg Takes Women’s Pursuit; Bjornsen 17th
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Oestberg Takes Women’s Pursuit; Bjornsen 17th

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 31, 2011

Norway’s Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg only got one shot at a U-23 World Championship title this year, since she decided to race at Norwegian nationals earlier this week. She made the most of it, skiing to a victory in her only start in Otepaa, Estonia on Monday, in the women’s 15 k pursuit. Her teammate Britt Ingunn Nydal made a late charge to take second, just ahead of Finland’s Kerttu Niskanen, who had pushed the pace...

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ORFORD!

Pate NeumannJanuary 31, 2011

 Yesterday's 2nd place in the 20km skate. Academy podium sweep!Last Wednesday, Graham, Drew, Jeffries and I jumped on a plane and headed to Montreal for what would be the first of our three week NorAm mini-tour race series. Travel went very smooth...

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A good weekend of racing

nateJanuary 31, 2011

Wow the skiing is good in Minnesota right now. I hope I didn't just jinx things, but considering that we are supposed to get another 6 inches of snow today, I am feeling pretty good about the skiing for the next month (still should probably knock on wo...

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A good weekend of racing

nateJanuary 31, 2011

Wow the skiing is good in Minnesota right now. I hope I didn't just jinx things, but considering that we are supposed to get another 6 inches of snow today, I am feeling pretty good about the skiing for the next month (still should probably knock on wo...

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