On January 30th and 31st, three MVNT racers (Kelsey Dickenson, Sage Abate, Jacqueline O'Keefe) competed at the former Olymipic venue near Park City, UT-- Soldier Hollow. The photos below are from Tamera Abate and Janice Dickenson who also travelled to ...
Praz de Lys, France – Invild Flugstad Oestberg (NOR) won her second World Junior gold in two events, taking the victory in the 10km pursuit. Oestberg skied at the front the entire race, breaking away in the skate leg en route to 24.3 second victory over Finland’s Krista Lahteenmaki. Hanna Brodin (SWE) claimed her second podium of the Championships, adding the bronze to a silver in the SUnday’s sprint. Brodin was just over 40 seconds...
The nation-wide Team of dedicated skiers who sport the Webskis and SOLDA suits have rolled into a flury of ski activity. These highlights include what I know. If there are WebSkis Team skiers out there who are doing other cool stuff, let me know.br /...
It’s Tuesday, February 3, 2009 and I’m back in Ruhpolding, Germany after a two-week swing through the southern part of “Biathlon World”. Our latest world cup took place in Antholz, Italy – a beautiful venue and one of my favorite courses to race. It’s sits high up in a mountain valley, about as far north [...]
Minneapolis, Minnesota – THe City of Lakes Loppet is likely one of the few urban ski marathons in the world. The race starts in Theodore Wirth Park in Minneaoplois, and winds approximately 35km through woods, over parkways and across lakes to a grand finish before cheering crowds on the streets of Uptown. The weekend consists of 12 different events, six of them races. The premier event is the 35km freestyle on Sunday. In the women’s...
Oberammergau, Germany – Stanislav Rezac (CZE) and Jenny Hansson won the 37th annual König Ludwig Lauf World Loppet. Rezac and Hansson both particpated in the 50km classic – the premier event of the weekend. Rezac, a winner of the FIS marathon cup in 2005 and a familiar face on the World Loppet podium, edged Swede Jerry Ahrlin in a sprint to the finish. The final margin of victory was only .4 seconds after nearly two...
Folldal, Norway – The US men’s team skied to an impressive 2nd place finish in the relay at the Scandinavian Junior Championships. The US women’s team also had an excellent day, placing 3rd. The US also placed two skiers in the top 10 in the sprint – Hilary Rich 7th and Tyler Kornfield 9th. For excellent photos and a play by play of the relay, as well as reports from the entire trip, visit the...
Erik and Sadie were the top US finishers in the Sprints: a href="http://www.fasterskier.com/racing6117.html" target="_blank"report from FasterSkier.com/abr /br /Praz de Lys, France; Feb 1, 2009br /br /Scott Johnstonbr /br /Today began the 2009 Cross Co...
Cable, Wisconsin – Kristina Strandberg (Saab Salomon Factory Team) won her second SuperTour in two days, wile Leif Zimmerman (USST) was back on top after finishing 4th on Saturday. Strandberg, who leads the overall SuperTour rankings, and appears to be the easy favorite, even with half a season of racing to go, edged out Nicole DeYong (Fischer/Craft,SVSEF) by 1.5 seconds in the 10km freestyle event. DeYong was fifth on Saturday and with her performances this...
Praz de Lys, France – The U23 Championships came to a close with a classic sprint, also the first event of the World Junior Championships. U23 Men The Canadian men’s U23 team capped an excellent week by placing four skiers in the top 10, led by Alex Harvey in 5th. Harvey, gunning for a podium result, and possibly a victory, was foiled in achieving those goals, but still impressed with two top-5 results. Teammate Len...
For the past ten days I have been getting back to work. Which means some HARD training. Since Christmas the training has really been pretty spotty. Super cold weather made the lead up to Nationals a lot easier that I had intended. Nationals being only ...
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One of my fellow ITA athletes, a href="http://in-the-arena-matt.blogspot.com/"Matt Chisam/a sent out a query concerning nature vs nurture in regards to sports. I think nurture is much more important and nature only incidental. Below are my responses to...
1. What is the athletic background of your parents and family?My parents and family were very athletic and active when I was young. My parents met at a bike/ski shop in Manhattan and ran the shop’s weekend ski trips to Vermont together. I grew up dow...
1. What is the athletic background of your parents and family?My parents and family were very athletic and active when I was young. My parents met at a bike/ski shop in Manhattan and ran the shop’s weekend ski trips to Vermont together. I grew up dow...