Fasterskier.com is entering its fourth winter of providing the latest ski training and racing news. We have strived to post articles of interest to young and old, elite and recreational skiers. We have posted news, updates, profiles, results, training and racing summer and winter. More than 50-60 monthly articles have become the norm even in the summer. The total number of articles that can be found in our archives after two seasons have reached several thousands! With all that said, we want to give you a chance to test you memory, recollection and knowledge from what you have acquired of “must know†from reading our articles.
We will occasionally post 5-10 questions and you can see if you can answer without having to scroll down below the last question to find the answers. Most questions will be from stuff that has been mentioned in Fasterskier.com articles, but we will occasionally sneak in some “specialsâ€. Enjoy and think before you look!
 in the 18-kilometer cross country race at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway and the winner of the 50-kilometer race and his finish “historic†time (full score if you are within 5 minutes) in the same Olympics?</p>
<p>6. Male and female winners of the 2004 Long distance World Cup race Konig Ludvig Lauf?</p>
<p>7. Female and male winners of the classic sprint World Cup races in Drammen, 2004?</p>
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<p>1. From Dartmouth Ski Team press release:<br />
 It was a long time in coming, but for the Dartmouth College “Big Green†it was worth it.</p>
<p>Dominating the classical cross country events, the Big Green roared past first-day leader Vermont to win the 93rd Dartmouth Winter Carnival in Hanover. Dartmouth's first win at it's own carnival since 1984.</p>
<p>At the end of Saturday's racing, Dartmouth stood atop the standings with 801<br />
points. Vermont was second with 768; Middlebury College finished third with<br />
721</p>
<p>2. Liberec, Czech Republic</p>
<p>3. Turin (Torino), Italy</p>
<p>4. Justin Wadsworth, Lake Placid (believe it was 1998) and Soldier Hollow (2001)</p>
<p>5. 18-kilometer winner: Hallgeir Brenden, Norway (1.01.34), 50-kilometer winner: Veikko Hakulinen, Finland (3.33.33), won by almost five minutes Newspaper report from the race: The temperature during the race went up to 16 Celsius, the Swedes had invented a scraper mounted in front of the binding so that they could scrape off the ice without taking their skis off. Haukulinen told reporters that he had re-waxed two times during the race</p>
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<p>6. Stanislav Rezac from Czech Republic and Christina Paluselli from Italy won the third FIS Marathon Cup 2003/04 race, König Ludwig Lauf (50 km C) on Sunday.</p>
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<p>7. Marit Bjoergen, of Norway, continued her dominance of the World Cup sprints, beating out three Finish athletes in the final heat. Virpi Kuitunen locked up the silver medal, while teammates Elina Hietamaeki and Alino Kaisa Saarinen, finished third and fourth respectively.<br />
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