“We knew that this was going to be the year of OPERATION DONNERSCHLAGE,†pointed out Atomic’s International Race Director, Peter Juric. “We have been dominating international racing like crazy this year. Team Atomic take first and second in World Loppet opener in China and in World Cup XC we have huge lead over everybody else. Tobias Angerer has 585 points after his win in Val di Fiemme last weekend. That make him 130 points ahead of second place guy.â€
champion@atomic-usa.com “We have our top World Cup race technician, Roman Toferer, hand pick these skis for you at Atomic factory race room. We make sure Roman clean the Bratwurst grease off his fingers before he do this. No American want Roman’s greasy fingerprints on their new race skis. But he very good at picking race skis.â€
The remaining World Cup schedule is as follows:
JANUARY 21 — 22 OBERSTDORF, GERMANY
FEBRUARY 4 — 5 DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
MARCH 4 — 5 MORA, SWEDEN
MARCH 7 BORLAENGE, SWEDEN
MARCH 8 FALUN, SWEDEN
MARCH 9 DRAMMEN, NORWAY
MARCH 11 OSLO, NORWAY
MARCH 15 CHANGCHUN, CHINA
MARCH 18 — 19 SAPPORO, JAPAN
Scoring for World Cup events is:
1st place: 100 points
2nd place: 80 points
3rd place: 60 points
4th place: 50 points
5th place: 45 points
The scoring works its way down to 30th place receives one point.
January 31, 2006 will be the last day that Atomic will accept entries. Predictions should be emailed to: champion@atomic-usa.com Winner will be based on who comes closest to Tobias Angerer’s total World Cup points for the current season. Only one entry per contestant will be accepted. Ties will be determined by who sends in their entry first. All entries must have a US ship to address to win. Atomic can not ship to a PO Box. All ages are welcome to enter. Athletes sponsored by other manufacturers are also allowed to enter so that they may become competitive. Be sure to include your height, weight and whether you want the ski for universal conditions or specific track conditions. Please also include the length of your current skate skis and any flex information you might have about those skis. Winner will be announced within one week after the final race. Delivery will be in September, 2006.
Source: Atomic press release
