Articles from January 2011
Jan 20, 2011
- By Chelsea Little - American biathlete Tim Burke was one of the few to criticize the Rupholding trails, calling them "by far my least favorite course on the World Cup."
Jan 20, 2011
- By Liz Kantack - FasterSkier reviews True North Woodworking’s waxing form and stand, a wooden waxing bench handmade in Minnesota.
Jan 19, 2011
- By Benjamin Kramer - While attention was on the SuperTour and Lake Placid this weekend, the Rock Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA) and Central Collegiate Ski Association (CCSA) had...
Jan 19, 2011
- Reigning World Champion Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) will lead a team of six U.S. ski jumping athletes at the International Ski Federation's 2011 Nordic World Ski Championship...
Jan 19, 2011
- By Topher Sabot - American Kikkan Randall won her second-career World Cup race on Saturday in Liberec. The victory moved her into first place in the FIS Sprint Cup standings, and 10th in the o...
Jan 19, 2011
- By Kieran Jones - In less than a year, Len Valjas has gone from a young gun with loads of potential to a World Cup-level sprinter. With a ticket to World Championships, he hopes to keep the ba...
Jan 18, 2011
- The 2nd annual SportHill Crescent Lake Challenge 14.1 mile cross country ski race around Crescent Lake race was held Sunday, January 16. Bend skiers dominated the stand...
Jan 18, 2011
- The purpose of glide wax is to reduce the friction between ski and snow. This friction approaches pure dry friction at extremely cold temperatures and approaches pure wet fri...
Jan 18, 2011
- Fischer Skis announced today that seven of the fourteen athletes selected to the 2011 U.S. Cross Country World Championship team choose to compete on Fischer Skis. The seven ...
Jan 18, 2011
- The most important thing that we do at Toko regarding the Nordic market are our Race Wax Tips. We recognize that a very large number of people depend on them and make our t...
Jan 18, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - The president of the Russian Ski Association, Elena Vyalbe, said that budding star Petr Sedov had been to see specialists in Davos about suspected heart problems, and that "c...
Jan 18, 2011
- By Inge Scheve - Taylor Fletcher was the top American in the Nordic Combined World Cup event in Seefeld (AUT) Sunday, posting a 29th place.
Jan 18, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - Alex Harvey turned heads at the 2011 edition of the Tour de Ski, capping off four top-10 finishes with 10th place overall. But the 22-year-old Canadian insists tha...
Jan 18, 2011
- To go along with Tuesday's profile, Canadian skier Alex Harvey features on the latest edition of the FasterSkier podcast, breaking down his performance at the 2011 Tour de Sk...
Jan 17, 2011
- The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) announced today its Most Influential Women (MIW) List for 2010 to highlight the ...
Jan 17, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - According to the website Sports.ru, 20-year-old Russian phenom Petr Sedov is suffering from a heart problem, and will miss next week’s races in Otepaa, Estonia.
