Norwegian Adresseavisen (Adressa.no ) reports that Marit Bjorgen and the rest of the Norwegian women’s team are continuing to increase the training volume. Some are now training more than skiers on the men’s team. Bente Skari is the most successful Norwegian female skier ever. She was training up to 830 hours per year. Some of the skiers on the women’s team will top that volume this season. Marit Bjorgen
The Val Senales glacier, in Italy at 3200 meters altitude, offers year-round cross country skiing. Top teams from around the World are using the popular site for summer and fall training and testing. Ski companies are often found testing new products or materials. Silvio Fauner on Val Senales glacier SOLDA' Ski Wax provided wax service to the entire group.  The Val Senales Glacier is 3.200 meters high. There is an impressive gondola that is...
Swedish Skidsport.com reports that Chinese elite skiers in both cross country skiing and biathlon are training hard in the ski tunnel in Vuokatti, Finland. The reason for this is an exchange program between the Finnish educational department and the two nations Olympic committees. The Chinese skiers will have totalled 1500 training days in Voukatti this year. (10 skiers on a 10 day camp = 100 training days). Observers have reported seeing the Chinese skiers do...
The race season was coming to end in Australia. It had been a great season in terms of the amount of snow but sometimes only the tough and focused survived as blizzards and high winds affected the racing at times. The last race of the season in the Snowy Mountains — the Kosciuzsko Tour was to suffer a similar fate. The traditional 18km course is the highest athletic pursuit in the country. It starts off...
Swedish Skidsport.com reports that Olympic biathlon champion Ole Einar Bjorndalen, Norway showed that he is in good shape during a time-trial in Ruhpolding, Germany. He hopes to ski faster this winter. Bjorndalen won four biathlon gold’s at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, but left last year’s biathlon Worlds in Oberhof without gold medals. Last weekend he raced a time-trial in Rupholding together with the Italian biathlon team and won in dominating fashion. He...
Trond Nystad, the US National Team head coach says that the national team is using the same training principles as the Norwegian women’s team. Â How has the season preparation been going up until now? – So far good. We have trained well here in Park City (1500-2000 meters) and at sea level. Everyone has trained well, stayed healthy and free of injuries. We have concluded after analyzing the last season’s training and travel that...
The Club provides detailed, in-depth coverage of modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country. Most of the Club’s articles will cover issues related to training and racing, and will also include material for all ages and abilities, from World Cup skiers’ training to important elements of youth and age group training and skiing. The September issue This month we again include three articles: The first article is on Long-term guidance – A summary...
Forget Early Breakfast. Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reports that the start times for cross country World Cup and championship races will be later in the day. This will be in effect starting this season. Biathlon races have for a long time been using an afternoon start and cross country is now following suit. – I want us to compete later in the day. This will bring more spectators to the stadium, but even more important is...
The race season is only two months away. You’ll have more fun and race faster this winter if you ski technically well. We suggest that you use the finale months of the dryland season and the first part of the winter to improve and fin-tune your technique skills. Fasterskier.com posted a series of very good technique articles by Stefan Lindinger and Walter Minatti  this summer. Check them out in case you missed them: Part 1...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced Tuesday that its Executive Committee approved the Prohibited List of Substances and Methods for 2005. The new List will be published prior to October 1, 2004, and will go into effect January 1, 2005. Some changes will be made from the current List in 2005. Those changes include: The topical application of glucocorticosteroids will no longer require an abbreviated therapeutic use exemption. Beta-2 agonists, often used in the treatment...
A few weeks ago, we reported that Vuokatti, Finland was planning on being able to offer regular terrain skiing starting in mid-September.
Last year, at a Canada Cup race in Calgary, somebody pointed out to me that I was the second oldest person in the Open Men category. The startling part is that I was, at that point, 26 years old! “How could this be?â€, I thought. “I don’t even have gray hair or a beer belly yetâ€. Then I wondered where all the skiers older than myself went. It is kind of sad, if you think...
Pietro Piller Cottrer of Italy and Elena Veedeneva of Russia won the final 12-kilometer skate race in the 2004 rollerski World Cup. Italian skiers dominated the men’s field taking the top five spots. Rikard Grip of Sweden was sixth. Russian and Ukrainian skiers took the top four spots in a very competitive women’s race. Results 2004-09-20 WORLD CUP ROLLERSKI 2004 FIS SESTOLA – ITALY 17-19 September 2004 12 km skating SENIOR Men 1 Pietro Piller...
Sprint World Cup winner Marit Bjorgen dominated a small women's field and won by almost 4 minutes to Kine Beate Bjornas in a 24-kilometer rollerski race in Budal Norway last weekend. Stig Rune Kveen crushed a strong men's field including national team skiers Eldar Ronning, Frode Estil and John Kristian Dahl. Kveen was 1.02 ahead of Dahl while Estil was third, 27 seconds behind Dahl. Krister Trondsen was back from his recent crash with a...