DAVOS, Switzerland (Feb. 4) – U.S. women finished 11th Sunday behind Sweden in a 4x5K World Cup relay race while the U.S. men's team was 12th behind Russia in the 4x10K race. Sweden won in 53:51.6 with the four Americans 11th with a time of 58:15.7. Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) and Liz Stephen (East Montpelier, VT), who made her World Cup debut Saturday, were joined by two others skiing in their first World Cup race:...
The Russians men’s team with Ivan Babikov, Serguei Novikov, Ilia Chernousov and Sergej Shiriaev, won without their well known team leaders today’s 4 x 10 km relay competition in Davos, Switzerland. The Russian finished in the exciting 4 x 10 km race shortly 0,4 seconds ahead of the Italian Team (Valerio Checchi, Giorgio Di Centa, Fabio Santus and Pietro Piller-Cottrer). The third place took Team France (Jean Marc Gaillard, Vincent Vittoz, Emmanuel Jonnier and Alexandre...
Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country at Davos (SUI) on February 04th, 2007 In today’s exciting 4 x 5 km ladies’ relay competition, the team from Sweden with Lina Andersson, Anna Karin Stroemstedt, Charlotte Kalla and Britta Norgren took the victory on the difficult courses in Davos. Britta Norgren could won the finish sprint against Marit Bjoergen from the Norwegian team (Astrid Jacobsen, Vibeke W. Skofterud, Kirstin Stroemer Steira and Marit Bjoergen), who was 1,0 seconds...
Antholz, Italy, February 3. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY) finished 35th in today’s World Championship 10K Sprint, leading the US Biathlon Team, which qualified all four men and three women for the Championship Pursuit competitions on Sunday. Burke, after an amazing three competitions (13th, 11th, and 5th places) 2 weeks in Pokljuka, Slovenia, hit a bump in his outstanding season today, missing one target in both prone and three more in standing, for the first...
The Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski winner Virpi Kuitunen (FIN) could celebrate today her 6th World Cup victory (incl. the Tour de Ski) in this season in the today’s 10 km Individual start in the free technique in Davos (SUI). Kuitunen took the victory in a time of 24:40,4. On second position follows the Russian Olga Savialova, 11.9 seconds behind. She was very strong in the first part of the race and lost her lead...
Vincent Vittoz (FRA) and Toni Livers (SUI) took today together the victory of the todays 15 km Individual start in the free technique. The 23-year old Livers, whose previous best World Cup performance was 14th last season in the Pursuit races in Oberstdorf cross the finish line exactly with the same time than the French Vincent Vittoz who could manage this sixth World Cup victory. It is the first time in a men’s World Cup...
DAVOS, Switzerland (Feb. 3) – Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) turned-in his best result in nearly two years Saturday, finishing 15th in a 15K freestyle World Cup race as he began the final preparation period leading to the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Vincent Vittoz of France, the 2005 World Championships pursuit gold medalist, and unheralded Swiss racer Toni Livers tied for the win in 35:48.8 each. Freeman finished in 37:06.5 with James Southam (Anchorage, AK)...
The Year’s Biggest Competitions and More Antholz, Italy, February 1. In a year that has been anything but normal weather-wise, the 2007 Biathlon World Championships open here Saturday under (finally) normal winter conditions. Europe has suffered through a virtually snowless, warm winter until early last week. At that point, the moisture that has been rain in most of December and January clashed with the cold air and viola—snow! More than a meter of snow buried...
Last World Cup in Europe before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo (JPN) January 31st, 2007 – For the upcoming weekend, 03rd — 04th February, the World Class athletes in Cross-Country skiing will meet in Europe's highest city — Davos (SUI). At an altitude of 1560m, the town with over 12,500 inhabitants is situated about 150 km south-east of Zuerich in the canton of Grisons. Davos – the hometown of Seraina Mischol –...
In just 22 days, the Nordic skiing world will converge upon Sapporo for the 2007 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships to be held there from February 22nd to March 4th. This will be the first time the championships have been held in Asia. With an impressive résumé as host for large sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup in 2002, Sapporo is hoping to set an example throughout the region for staging modern winter...
More than 80 representatives of the international media and the international sports movement gathered last week at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (SUI) to examine media and communications issues surrounding the fight against doping in sport. The specific goal of the WADA-hosted Symposium was to allow the media to learn more about the advances made to-date in anti-doping as well as about current opportunities and challenges. Following an introductory address by Jacques Rogge, President of...