Dartmouth’s Eric Packer and Rosie Brennan took individual titles on the second day of the EISA Regional Championships hosted by Bates in Rumford, Maine. For Packer it was his third straight win and second win of the Championships, and for Brennan it was her first win, helping put their team ahead of UVM in both team scores for the day. An inch or two of snow overnight continued to soften the tracks at Black Mountain...
Five years ago, a fourth place finish for the Americans in a nordic combined team event at World Championships would have been tough to swallow, since U.S. medals at major competitions had been few and far between. But in the season following the 2010 Olympics, which saw U.S. athletes take three silvers and a gold, collecting the “wooden medal” in their first of two team events in Oslo was merely a mild letdown. “Considering I’m...
Today we had a skate TT scheduled. The weather was not cooperating (sleet was falling at the rate of 1"/hr.) and the trails that had been perfectly groomed last night looked as if someone had laid a big white blanket over them. All the better! Sometime...
It sounds like Kowalczyk actually made it interesting this time around, although I have to say that while Bjørgen is impressive, this might actually get boring after a while. Or maybe Bjør-ing? Anyway, it’s nice to see Lahteenmaki get a strong result in at World Championships after having so many good races this season. And [...] Related posts:
After some wild racing this weekend, let’s take a step back and look at some of the top and notable performances again more closely. Starting with the women, here’s a graph showing the top six finishers in Saturday’s 15km pursuit (click through for full version): People keep pestering me about making my graphs bigger; so [...] Related posts:
Holy cow! I don't know about you guys, but I thought that was a tough Birkie. As much as a skiing fanatic as I am, I really can't say that I get all excited about skiing when the Mercury is at -4 at the start. Usually that's not a big issue in la...
1,000 skiers kids onlykickoff to Birkebeiner weekendjoyDelaney and Garrott at the start early and excited for the BarnebirkieWhat is the best way to find your kid at the end of the race. This wasn't this brother and sister's first rodeo.Neeandweah, Sh...
1,000 skiers kids onlykickoff to Birkebeiner weekendjoyDelaney and Garrott at the start early and excited for the BarnebirkieWhat is the best way to find your kid at the end of the race. This wasn't this brother and sister's first rodeo.Neeandweah, Sh...
1,000 skiers kids onlykickoff to Birkebeiner weekendjoyDelaney and Garrott at the start early and excited for the BarnebirkieWhat is the best way to find your kid at the end of the race. This wasn't this brother and sister's first rodeo.Neeandweah, Sh...
1,000 skiers kids onlykickoff to Birkebeiner weekendjoyDelaney and Garrott at the start early and excited for the BarnebirkieWhat is the best way to find your kid at the end of the race. This wasn't this brother and sister's first rodeo.Neeandweah, Sh...
Here are a couple of pictures that Austin took at the BKL Festival today. Over 500 kids competed in the great event. Many thanks to Breadloaf and the great organizing commitee (including alum Barney Hodges and his wife Chris). The whole weekend seemed ...
Biathlete Emil Hegle Svendsen had long been considered a shoe-in for the third leg of the 4x10 kilometer relay at the 2011 World Championships in Oslo on Friday. But after the 30K pursuit, Svendsen is shipped off to Siberia stat.
When the world’s best cross-country skiers stand on the start line for the men’s 50-kilometer freestyle, the final race of the 2011 World Ski Championships in Oslo, they will do so alongside Sergey Shiriaev, a Russian athlete who served a two-year doping ban between 2007 and 2009 and continues to work with controversial coach Anatoly Tchepalov. Tchepalov is currently serving a ban of his own for connections with athletes involved with doping: a four-year sanction...
Wow, it's been a couple days since I've managed a post...Birkie Fever will do that to you! In between finishing work and driving up to get the bibs (thanks to the Birkie Office for putting that at Hayward this year), it's a miracle I managed to get u...
I was nervous coming into Birkie week. I think everyone was wondering what the weather was going to do, with having a big warm up the week prior. To add to this, I snapped one of my good race skis a week before the Birkie! But after a last minute trip ...
I was nervous coming into Birkie week. I think everyone was wondering what the weather was going to do, with having a big warm up the week prior. To add to this, I snapped one of my good race skis a week before the Birkie! But after a last minute trip ...
I was nervous coming into Birkie week. I think everyone was wondering what the weather was going to do, with having a big warm up the week prior. To add to this, I snapped one of my good race skis a week before the Birkie! But after a last minute trip ...
I was nervous coming into Birkie week. I think everyone was wondering what the weather was going to do, with having a big warm up the week prior. To add to this, I snapped one of my good race skis a week before the Birkie! But after a last minute trip ...
When asked whom he designed the Oslo courses for, the renowned Hermod Björkestöl, responsible for the layouts at the last three Olympics, responded simply “for entertainment.” And entertainment, in the form of drama and excitement, was provided in spades as Petter Northug (NOR) overcame a shocking early attack by Alex Harvey, and an impressive late challenge by the Russians to achieve his primary goal for the 2011 World Championships – an individual gold medal. Northug...
The American men were overshadowed in Sunday’s 30 k pursuit by the performances of their Canadian counterparts, but there were still some promising signs from a pair of U.S. starters. Kris Freeman (USA) skied three quarters of the race with the lead pack of men, before losing contact and trailing in for 29th, two minutes behind the winner—while by no means Freeman’s best, an improvement on some subpar races over the past week. He said...