The team of Evi Sachenbacher Stehle and Claudia Kuenzel outpaced the rest of the world today in the second-to-last World Cup race of the year, a 6x1km freestyle team sprint held in Sapporo, Japan. Claudia Kuenzel. Photo copyright Marco Felgenhauer, xc-ski.de The German duo finished an impressive 14.4 seconds clear of second-placed Finland (Riitta Liisa Lasilla and Pirjo Manninen) who just barely beat out a surprisingly strong effort from Sweden II (Britta Norgren and Anna...
By John Meyer Denver Post Staff Writer Steamboat Springs – After spending most of February watching Bode Miller turn complacency into an Olympic ideal – at least in his mind – it was a treat to see the NCAA ski championships last week in Ski Town USA. The racers gave it their best, which is more than you could say for Miller's Sestriere Shutout. The top teams dearly wanted to win, an impulse Miller apparently...
SESTRIERE, Italy — The U.S. cross-country squad took to the trails in the relay events today at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games. The men’s team of Chris Klebl (Heber City, Utah), Mike Crenshaw (Boulder, Colo.) and 2006 Paralympic double-gold medalist Steve Cook (Salt Lake City, Utah) finished sixth with a time of 40:58.0 The gold medal went to Norway, who finished with a time of 39:58.5. Russia I took the silver medal in 40:00.1, and...
For the past four days the weather has been warm and wet, which has melted some of our bomber base up here in the county. However, a cold front has moved through causing the temps to drop into the twenties during the day and teens at night. The long range forecast shows temps remaining below freezing along with snow showers for the next eight days. The trails are still in great shape and ready to...
Part One of Three Part Series For the four years since Salt Lake 2002 Trond has been at the reigns of the U.S. Ski Team. On his last day on the job Mr. Nystad sat down for a conversation — about where he hoped to lead American skiing years ago, to where he sees it headed in the years to come. Torin Koos is a member of the National A Team for the United States....
The National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation awarded the Roger Weston National High School championship cups to Truckee High and Bozeman High at the conclusion of the 2006 Junior Olympics March 12, 2006 in Houghton, Michigan. The Truckee Boys team avenged their second place finish to Aspen Valley H.S., CO in the High School standings in 2005 behind senior Matt Gelso who won gold medals in both the classic and the skate races. After the first...
Caribou, ME — The Northern Skiers Club of Caribou Maine is playing host to the USSA Spring Series Classic Team Sprint this coming Tuesday 3/20, which will also act as the National Championship for this exciting event. To sweeten the pot for the athletes and make it more exciting for the fans, Soderberg Construction, SW Collins Company, and Cary Medical Center have raised another $900 to go specifically to cash prems for the middle laps...
SESTRIERE, Italy — The 2006 Paralympic Winter Games have been good to Steve Cook (Salt Lake City, Utah.). Cook took first place in the men’s standing 10K race on Wednesday, earning his second gold medal of these Games. He won the men’s 5K race earlier in the week, ending a 14-year gold medal drought for the U.S. Nordic Ski Team. After winning four silver medals at the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City,...
The Newell Man did it. 3rd place, photo finish for second. First World Cup Podium for the US since 1983, the same year Newell was born. Photos from Holmenkollen and China to come and probably Japan too if I find the time and can maintain any sanity.
CHANGCHUN, China (March 15) – Olympian Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) finished third – the first U.S. cross country World Cup podium since 1983 when two other Vermonters were top-3 in a cross country race – as the World Cup made its debut Wednesday night in a 1K freestyle sprint in this Manchurian city of nearly seven million northeast of Beijing. Newell led the qualifying and moved through quarterfinals and semis before finishing third behind Swede...
Editor's Note: The quotes below were sent to us by FIS. Usually FIS provides quotes from the top three athletes. So it's disappointing that they did not get a quote from Andrew Newell, but got one from the fourth place finisher instead. FIS World Cup Cross-Country in Changchun (China), Sprint Classic, 15.03.2006 Bjoergen and Fredriksson won the Sprint race in Changchun Marit Bjoergen (NOR) and Thobias Fredriksson (Sweden), are the winners of the World Cup...
After giving up half of her points lead when she dropped out of the Holmenkollen last weekend, Norway's Marit Bjoergen put up a fight with overall World Cup contender Beckie Scott of Canada, winning the final individual sprint of the year today in Changchun, China. Scott, who has been coming on stronger and stronger ever since the Olympics, raced superbly against three Norwegians in the A-final to finish second in the 1.0km freestyle. But it...
Andrew Newell of the US Ski Team did what he had been (non-verbally) threatening to do all winter, and skied faster than all of the World's best sprinters in the prelim of today's final World Cup sprint of the year in Chanchun, China. Despite the long travel distance to China, most if not all of the top World Cup sprinters were there racing the 1.0km freestyle. Qualification Results: Andrew Newell in the Olympics http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&raceid=9628 This...
Team Maine Wins Overall TDBanknorth J2 Nordic Ski Championships March 12 (Rumford, ME): Yesterday, the 37 truckloads of snow from Roxbury Pond were melting fast, running rivers off the freestyle course at Black Mountain. Today, the course was firm, almost fast, for the final, deciding event of the TD Banknorth Eastern J2 Championships – the 4×2.1km freestyle relay. Going into this event, for J2 skiers age 14 and 15, Vermont's team of 20 girls and...
First this season the World Cup went to Canada for the first time in ten years, now the FIS World Cup Cross Country is also going to Asia. The final World Cup competitions will take place in Asia, in Changchun (CHN) and Sapporo (JPN). Tobias Angerer from Germany has confirmed his overall World Cup victory on the men’s side but who will be the overall World Cup winner on the women’s side? That will be...
www.fis-ski.com The World Cup concludes with races in China and Japan next week: March 15: Changchun, China: Freestyle sprint March 18: Sapporo, Japan: 2 person sprint relay March 19: Sapporo, Japan: Pursuit (2 x 7.5-k women and 2 x 15-k for men) Beckie Scott after Saturday’s 30-k World Cup race in Oslo, Norway: “I am very happy with my 4th place here today since 30km skating races are usually not my strongest event and I...