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Liberec, Czech Republic – Petter Northug (NOR) won the men’s 30km World Championship Pursuit, skiing to a 3.1 second win over Anders Soedergren (SWE). Northug captured his first individual World Championship medal with a strong attack on the last climb. The mass start pursuit can often end in a mass sprint to the line, consisting of 20+ athletes. But today was different. The main pack stayed together through the entire 15km classic portion of the...
Pursuit: Stephen 15th (7th in skate, and worlds personal best place), Arritola 32nd (19th in skate, and worlds personal best), Southam 33rd (worlds PR). And in Nordic Combined: Lodwick 1st, Demong 3rd.
Pursuit: Stephen 15th (7th in skate, and worlds personal best place), Arritola 32nd (19th in skate, and worlds personal best), Southam 33rd (worlds PR). And in Nordic Combined: Lodwick 1st, Demong 3rd.
Pursuit: Stephen 15th (7th in skate, and worlds personal best place), Arritola 32nd (19th in skate, and worlds personal best), Southam 33rd (worlds PR). And in Nordic Combined: Lodwick 1st, Demong 3rd.
Photos courtesy of Andrew Canniff of Swix Sport USA.
LIBEREC, Czech Republic – In an historic day for the USA, Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) took his second World Championship gold and teammate Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) took the bronze during the 2009 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Liberec. The USA is leading the medals count with three gold and a silver after eight of 20 events. Lodwick and Demong’s performance marks the first time two U.S. nordic combined athletes have made the...
LIBEREC, Czech Republic – A pair of medals Sunday at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Liberec has boosted the U.S. Ski Team back into the medals count lead with four, including three gold, after eight of 20 Championship events. American Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) won his second gold in three days in nordic combined Sunday, with teammate Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) taking silver. The World Championships continue through March 1. There are...
About the Birkie: Celebrating its 36th year, the American Birkebeiner (1-800-USA-BRKE;Rebecca Dussault of Gunnysack, CO won the womens race in 2:26:39.5 while Kristina Strangberg was ten seconds back in third with a time of 2:26:49.7. With such and exciting finish for Brooks followed by a win at last year’s Tour of Anchorage, it will be pretty tough for Brooks to ignore her Olympic year looming! Bryan Cook finishing 43 seconds out and Canadian Dan Roycroft...
Upon waking up today I couldn't get thoughts of groundhog day out of my head. Yawning , stretching and walking over to the window I was quickly greeted with another stellar Eastern European winter day full of the same old - same old. Snowing, warm (after extensive put your hand out the window tests showed) and the exact same conditions as Friday's 15km classic event held here in Liberec.
The classic race was a hairies day and I was on kick wax... just a frustrating experience.divbr //divdivbr //divdivFor the first time in my skiing career I was in there. The first half of the race classic skiing was just real comfortable. I had great s...
In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...
In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...
In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...
In the Piazzo d'Oro cafe on the edge of the Liberec town plaza the overlaying of Eastern European history and the lycra-clad world of skiing makes an odd juxtaposition. Directly outside my cafe window looms the elaborate stone facade of the Liberec tow...
Pyeong Chang, Korea – Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, NY) turned in a personal best 18th place finish in the Men’s 15K Mass Start competition on Saturday evening. Bailey finished 2:21.5 behind Dominik Landertinger of Austria, who won the first race and World Championship of his career in 38:32.58. The 20-year-old did not take the lead until approximately 1.5K before the finish when Ole Einar Bjorndalen, feeling fatigued waved the youngster to take the pace. Landertinger...
Pyeong Chang, Korea – Finishing 10th in the relay competition and in front of the defending World Champion Norwegian really made the whole team proud. It was the best World Championship relay finish for the women since ninth place finish in 1997. Lanny Barnes started first and managed to stay clean in the first shooting. That put her already in a good position, with only two extra shots in the second shooting she managed to...