New Gloucester, ME, July 16. Doug Hoover (Williamsburg, PA) won all three men’s competitions this weekend at the North American and US Summer Biathlon National Championships in Fort Kent. The 35-year old Hoover easily won the Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass Start competitions at the Maine Winter Sports Center in Fort Kent, from fields that featured many junior and youth competitors. As one of the most experienced competitors in the field, he was the favorite when...
FasterSkier.com visited the Olympic arena at Soldier Hollow outside Heber, Utah this weekend and tested the new additions to the rollerski course. The biggest news is that a (approximately) one kilometer loop has been added and this loop includes the main climb up Hermod Hill! At the top of Hermod it's a flat/gradual down/rolling section before it connects to the old loop close to the bridge that goes over the steepest hill on the sprint-course....
The first ski tunnel in Central Europe will be built in the wintersport center of Oberhof (GER), as was decided by the Thuringia Cabinet in June. The financing for the approximately €12.5 Mil. project will be split between the federal state government and the state of Thuringia. A final decision on the details for financing the operational costs is expected on 17th July 2007 (today). Following lengthy planning, the seven meter wide and four meter...
Fort Kent ME, July 12. The Summer Biathlon National Championships/ World Team Trials open this evening at the 10th Mountain Ski Center. Three days of competition and fun conducted by the 10th Mountain Ski club and the Maine Winter Sports Center starts with Sprint competitions for men and women at 6 PM today. Entrants include former members of the US Summer Biathlon World Championship Team members Doug Hoover (Williamsburg, PA) and Keith Woodward (Stowe, VT)...
PARK CITY, Utah (July 12) – World Cup podium performers Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT), Torin Koos (Leavenworth, WA) and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) lead a 16-member U.S. Cross Country Ski Team named for the 2008 season. The Team of six men and 10 women includes eight Olympians, U.S. Nordic Director Luke Bodensteiner said. It's the largest cross country squad since the 18-member Team named for the 1992 Olympic season. Newell posted the first U.S. podium...
Over 40 top athletes from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois plus CXC Team spent one week of training and testing at Cresthill Resort in Hayward, WI HAYWARD, WI (July 10) Great sunny weather and over three dozen committed athletes highlighted last week in the Central Region. Top regional coaches in the region led athletes through a week of testing, education and training including US Ski Team coaches Pete Vordenberg and Matt Whitcomb. In the first...
Start and stop June turns into big July Ski-able conditions are normal in June or even May in the austral winter of Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego but this year the real snow held off until late June and July. After a series of storms passed through conditions have been good to excellent and even withstood recent north winds (equivalent to south winds in the boreal hemisphere). Ushuaia’s local stalwart skier and junior coach Sebastián Menci...
Marit Bjorgen is keeping the results to herself, but recent tests make her confident that the changes in her training have positive effects. Related articles: Emil and Henke: The secret behind their greatness is the same training method http://www.fasterskier.com/training4325.html Bjorgen back to Samdal http://www.fasterskier.com/training4221.html Samdal wants control of Bjorgen http://www.fasterskier.com/news4247.html
Work to build a brand-new 2010 Olympic Cross-Country, Biathlon and Ski Jumping venue in Callaghan Valley is on schedule. While the British Columbian wilderness has posed some very unique challenges, the project should be complete by this autumn. The Nordic Competition Venue will be located just 14km from the Whistler Olympic Village. At the end of November, a new 10 km road will open to take skiers into the venue from the Sea-to-Sky highway that...
Concluding our series of questions and answers with the FIS Council Members, this week we feature an interview with Jaakko Holkeri. Q. Finland can look back to a very successful 2006/07 season, especially in Cross-Country. What are the reasons for this newly-found strength? A. The most important reason concerns the extremely talented athletes who are beginning to have a sufficient number of training years under their belt. The other factors are hard training and solid...
Russian cross country hope banned for two years. It was in conjunction with an out-of-competition test earlier this summer that Irina Artemova tested positive in a doping test. The 23-year old Russian had illegal amounts of furosemide in her body. Artemova, who made her World Cup debut in 2004, is now banned from all competitions for two years. Source: Langrenn.com
Sent in by Travis Jones: Junior National Champion Kathrine Ingalls, from the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club was injured in a serious road bike accident last Friday. Kat, an avid mountain bike racer, was riding with her mom north of Steamboat Springs when she was hit by a Semi truck. The truck rolled over her lower body. She sustained a broken femur and pelvis in the accident and was flown to Denver Medical Center for...
By Prague Daily Monitor / Published 4 July 2007 Prague, July 3 (CTK) – The Czech Ministry of Education and Physical Training today said it wants to strengthen its influence in the committee organising the World Nordic Ski Championships in Liberec, north Bohemia, in 2009 and also wants Czech Olympic medallist Katerina Neumannova to become the committee head. Neumannova, 34, who won a number of medals in various international cross-country skiing events, ended her professional...
“Mora-Nisse” turned 90 years old June 25. One of Sweden’s most beloved sport profiles, Nils â€Mora-Nisse†Karlsson turned 90 years old on June 25. He is one of the greatest skiers of all time. â€Mora-Nisse†captured Olympic gold in the 50-kilometer in St. Moritz in 1948, he won in Holmenkollen three times, won the Swedish Vasaloppet nine (!) times and won 17 Swedish championships. He participated in about 275 competitions throughout his career. Mora-Nisse used...
Neither Mathias nor Thobias Fredriksson will continue as members of the Swedish team. Bjorn Lind is also considers leaving. Mathias Fredriksson was recently kicked off the Swedish team following a major soap-opera. His brother Thobias has now resigned on his own free will, writes Nettavisen.
Sotsji in Russia will organize the Olympic winter games in 2014. That was decided by the international Olympic committee on July 4. Sotsji beat South Korean Pyeongchang by only four votes in the last voting-round, 51 versus 47. Pyeongchang got the most votes in the first round, but Sotsji took over many votes from those who originally supported out-beaten Salzburg, Austria. Sotsji is a Russian city by the Blacksea at the base of the Kaukasus...
Eleven American Juniors, and three coaches from the US, just returned from three weeks of dry-land and on-snow training in Sweden and Norway. The trip was organized by Burke Mountain Academy’s Pete Phillips and this was the sixth year it has taken US juniors to the Solleftea Ski Gymnasium’s summer ski school to train with Swedish athletes and coaches, and to put the training to use on the snow fields in Sognefjell in Norway. This...
Following a problematic spring, Anders Aukland is finally starting to catch up with his brother, Vasaloppet winner Jœrgen. Team Xtra, their racing team which specializes in long distance races, did a treadmill test on Friday.
The 2007 edition of the Western Region Elite Group Camp, sponsored by the U.S. Ski Team and Far West Nordic, is complete and was huge hit with both athletes and coaches alike. Almost 50 athletes and 14 coaches arrived on Sunday afternoon in time to get acquainted and enjoy a mentally AND physically demanding special Team Orienteering Challenge at Donner State Park on the shores of Donner Lake in Truckee. Led by guest coach Mitch...