The Far West Nordic Ski Education Association is proud to announce the winners of the annual Ted Beauchamp Scholarship fund, awarded each year to young cross country ski racers who are avid participants of the sport, and who show a dedication and character that serves as a positive example to all of those involved in Nordic competition. This year’s winners of the $300 Scholarship Award are Dayna Stimson of Crowley Lake, CA and Alex Ferneyhough...
Greene movement Last year's PPP champion, Marshall Greene, may face tough competition from his cross-country skiing pals By Mark Morical / The Bulletin Zach Violett and Brayton Osgood did not realize that their friend Marshall Greene was somewhat of a local celebrity. The three elite cross-country skiers competed in a 10-kilometer run earlier this month, and many of the spectators were rooting for Greene. “I wondered why everybody was cheering for Marshall,” Violett says. “And...
CXC ANNUAL SPRING COACHES SYMPOSIUM AND CERTIFICATION JUNE 2-3, HYLAND PARK, BLOOMINGTON, MN Central Cross Country Ski Association is pleased to announce the 2007 CXC Skiing Annual Spring Coaches Symposium and inaugural CXC Skiing Coaches Certification Program. This is an annual educational opportunity for Central Coaches at all levels; youth, middle and high school, junior, collegiate, club and adult/master skiers. The purpose of this Symposium is to present both basic and applied information on cross...
Here is Sweden’s national team selection for the upcoming season. A-team Women Lina Andersson, PiteÃ¥ Elit Anna Dahlberg, Ã…sarna IK Ida Ingemarsdotter, do Charlotte Kalla, IFK Tärendö Sara Lindborg, Östersunds SK Britta Norgren, SollefteÃ¥ SK Men Mathias Fredriksson, AXA SC Thobias Fredriksson, Östersunds SK Anders Södergren, do Marcus Hellner, Gellivare SA Martin Larsson, Arvika IS Mats Larsson, Ã…sarna IK Johan Olsson, do Peter Larsson, Hudiksvalls IF Björn Lind, do Development team Women Sofia Bleckur, IFK...
Petter Northug and Bjœrn Dæhlie signed a contract last week that makes Dæhlie manager for Norway’s hottest young skistar.
The 2006/2007 season was the first season during which Right To Play was regularly represented in international skiing. The main pillars of the program consisted of collaboration with Worldloppet, FIS World Cup organizers in Switzerland, Norway and Germany, and a special project with the Schladming (AUT) Night Race. Within Worldloppet, the Tartu Maraton (EST) and Birkebeinerrennet (NOR) each donated starting places, which Right To Play sold on to participants for fundraising purposes. The FIS World...
The following is USSA’s preliminary list of nominations for the 2008 U.S. Cross Country Ski Team. The nominations include those active athletes who qualified based on published selection criteria. USSA will announce the actual team roster this summer, naming those athletes who accept the responsibilities of being a part of the U.S. Ski Team and are planning to compete in the ’08 season. Team staff will now work individually with nominated athletes to provide education...
Norwegian Steinar Mundal is hired as a new Canadian World Cup coach. He was head coach for the Canadian team for six years in the mid nineties.
From the US Olympic Committee's “Around The Rings” newsletter: Sanctions Said to Await Austrian Olympic Committee Around the Rings 05/09/2007 (ATR) An Austrian newspaper reports that the IOC is ready to issue severe sanctions against the Austrian Olympic Committee over a blood doping scandal at the Turin Olympics. The case may have grown more difficult with the naming of four athletes involved in that scandal to the Austrian cross country team for the upcoming season....
With the beginning of the new training season after a long Cross-Country winter, there have been several changes in the coaching ranks of many World Cup teams. Here is a summary of some that have come to the attention of the FIS Newsflash: Pierre Mignerey There have been some small changes in the coaches’ team in France as well: Pierre Mignerey has been appointed as Head of Cross-Country, replacing Jean-Pierre Burdet. Olivier Michaud, with the...
Cross Country Canada recently announced the skiers who have been nominated for the National Ski Teams for the 2007-2008 season. Confirmation of acceptance from these athletes is currently pending. The Senior Team includes two Olympic medalists, Chandra Crawford and Sara Renner, who is back on the team after taking a year off for pregnancy. Chandra Crawford Canmore Nordic Ski Club, Canmore, AB Sean Crooks Big Thunder Nordic Ski Club, Thunder Bay, ON Drew Goldsack Rocky...
** Torin is a member of the US Ski Team Sprint Squad. Otepaa World Cup podium (Torin on right)
Former Swedish head coach Inge BrÃ¥ten is being blamed for why the Swedes are getting fewer training camp days this year. Spending considerably more than last year’s budget is forcing a reduction this season.
Norwegian national team skier Eldar Rœnning set a new course record in the 4.9 kilometer long Forbordsfjellet opp (Forbords Mountain Up) hill-climb last week.
US Men Again Raise the Bar: Tenth Place in Nations Cup Highlights Record-setting Season The 2007 Biathlon Season was another record-setting year for the US Biathlon Team, led by the men’s squad of Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY), Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK), Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, NY), and Jeremy Teela (Anchorage, AK). If 2006 was a renaissance year for the men, then 2007 was a coming of age for the group. Led by the new...
This week we feature some questions and answers with FIS Council Member Sverre Seeberg (NOR). Q. Norway topped the 2007 FIS medals tables for both the FIS World Championships and the Junior World Championships across all FIS Olympic disciplines. What is your secret? A. Having such broad success is not a matter of any special secrets, I think. Instead, compared with many other National Ski Associations, the difference is that we in Norway provide support...
In its meeting in Beijing last week, the IOC Executive Board unanimously welcomed the idea of establishing Youth Olympic Games. The idea has been conceived by IOC President Rogge to address the decline in the relevance of sport amongst the younger generation. The concept will be presented for final approval by the IOC Session in Guatemala City in July in order for a debut of the summer edition to take place in 2010 with the...
A total of 827 doping controls were carried out at the four FIS World Championships held in Arosa (SUI), Ã…re (SWE), Sapporo (JPN) and Madonna di Campiglio (ITA) this winter. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo involved one of the largest anti-doping programs of any international major sports events outside of the Olympic Winter Games. The Sapporo program included both pre-competition and post-competition controls. All in all, 697 in-competition controls were completed in...
** Marty Hall resides in Quebec, Canada. He's the only person to coach both the Canadian and US National Ski Teams. This spring, he retired from coaching after starting up the Bowdoin College program. Fasterskier.com caught up with him recently.
Max Treinen was a US World Junior Team member in 2006. He has traininged with Jan Buron's Alaska Winter Stars program since he was 8 years old, and he will be skiing for the Unoversity of Alaska Anchorage next year. This fall I decided to spend the 2006-2007 schoolyear in Sweden. Because of visa problems over which I shan’t go into any detail in this piece of writing, I ended up spending but four months....