Several Norwegian national team cross country skiers expressed last winter a desire to cooperate more with the biathlon national team. The two teams had their only combined workout a week a go when they met in Italy for a dryland workout.
By Eli Brown, Fischer USA Nordic Race Service Director September 2, 2004 Watch out! Fischer brings another strong and deep squad of athletes to the trails this winter. Leading the squad of US Ski Team athletes is New Hampshires own Kris Freeman. Kris, coming off two breakthrough seasons, and a great summer of training (over 90 hours on snow this august in New Zealand!), is coming into another exciting season racing for Fischer. Kris is...
Biathlon skier Ole Einar Bjorndalen and cross country skier Espen Harald Bjerke won a running and shooting two-person relay in Livigno, Italy a little more than a week ago. The competition took place when the Norwegian cross country and biathlon team did a combined workout at their on-going altitude camps. The relay consisted of running and shooting. The teams ran a loop that took roughly three minutes and shoot four times each with penalty loops...
The private Norwegian marathon-team has been in existence for a few seasons, but the planning has never been as professional as this year. – We have notices an increased interest around the team and the skiers. Our sponsors feel they get their money’s worth, says team director Lars Aabol. The team sponsor, the Sport equipment provider, Intersport, is so satisfied that it has decided to support the team for two more years. The skiers has...
SEARCHING to replace the skier of the year Daily Utah Chronicle – Salt Lake City,UT,USA … Cross country skier Henning Dybendal will not rejoin the team this season after his stellar … Norway to try and compete for the national team," U ski head coach … NORDIC program enhances SSCV's strong Vail Daily News – Vail,CO,USA … several United States Alpine Ski Team athletes, National Snowboard champions and NCAA competitors, but until now, has not...
After many years of hard training and racing, things are finally coming together for Owen Hanley–recent winner of the second annual Summer Cross-Country Ski Championships at Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Last winter, Hanley had some encouraging top-5 results on the Nor/Am SuperTour circuit. This year, he says, the focus is on consistency, to achieve the best possible overall ranking: “That’s what it comes down to, if you want to go anywhere with it.†Owen Hanley finishes...
Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer, but in some parts of the country it also gave us our first glimpse of winter. The mountains near Anchorage, Alaska were white when skiers woke up on Saturday morning. Termination dust, as it is called in Alaska (signifying the termination of summer) was spread across the peaks of the Chugach Mountains. Aspen, Colorado, which I happened to be visiting at the time, also had snow...
Bente Skari, retired Cross-Country champion, takes part in large National project.
It’s now mandatory to use a helmet when rollerskiing at training camps as a member of the Norwegian junior national team. Junior national team coach Jon Arne Schjetne decided to make helmet usage mandatory in rollerski workout following Unni Odegaard’s recent accident. – I wanted to focus on increasing helmet usage among Norwegian roller skiers and felt it would be good to start with the junior national team. The skiers agreed with me, says Schjetne....
Terje Monsen (47) from Molde, Norway wants to do well in the 90-kilometer long Swedish Vasaloppet marathon race. His goal is in fact to beat (all) the younger skiers from his area that are also traveling across the border to participate in the World’s largest cross-country ski race. Terje knows that “talk is cheap†come March and is preparing himself for the winter with workouts that can (at least) mentally scare his competitors. Terje skied...
Fasterskier’s annual September rollerski and dryland training and technique camp is coming up during September 16 – 19 in Park City, Utah. New for this year’s four-day camp is the opportunity to select and take part in individual sessions. E-mail Fasterskier coaches Torbjorn Karlsen and John Aalberg at
World Cup skier Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset got sick with a cold already during the first week of the Norwegian national team’s altitude camp in Stelvio, Italy. A sore throat and chest made Odd-Bjorn return to Norway last Friday, after only four days in Italy. -I have been to altitude so many times that I know that I would not have gotten healthy again when we are living as high as we do at this camp, says...
September 1 (Portland, ME): The New England Nordic Ski Association’s President, John Upton, has announced that Max Cobb will take over the Executive Director position vacated by Fred Griffin. “Max brings to NENSA a wealth of experience in all levels and all facets of the sport of nordic skiing,†said Upton. “For our members he will bring NENSA and cross-country skiing into the forefront of winter sports in New England, and create programs for our...