The Craftsbury EC race vid is up. Those guys and gals up there are crazy about ski racing, they literally worked all night, non stop to give us a world class race loop. I missed some of our SMSer's while I was testing and tech-ing the race boards, so...
Wishing everyone a Christmas that is full of joy and contentment. And hoping there's a little new snow for everyone, too.
Last night (and for the past 48+ hours) I watched a movie because the Internet crashed in the entire Ramsau Valley. I couldn't get much work done or respond to all my unanswered emails but it wasn't for lack of trying, that's for sure! So.....
Photos from Haywood NorAm freestyle mass starts (women 10 k, men 15 k). Check out Dan Roycroft’s gallery for more photos from Sunday’s mass start.
Photos from the NorAm Teck freestyle sprints in Rossland, British Columbia, on Dec. 17, 2011. Special thanks to Dan Roycroft (AWCA).
For the World Cup athletes, Thursday’s announcement by the U.S. Biathlon Association of team nominations for the second period of racing brought no surprises. Just as in the last weekend of World Cup racing in December, three women (Sara Studebaker, Annelies Cook, and Susan Dunklee) and four men (Lowell Bailey, Jay Hakkinen, Tim Burke, and Leif Nordgren) will represent the U.S. on the trails. But the real excitement of the day came from the selection...
I say that because, well my last blog was not in this month. So much for more constant updates!Here we go- I’ll try to catch you up without too much ado.SuperTours and NorAms:In Bozeman we raced a sprint prologue, a 5k skate, and a 10k classic race...
World Champion ski jumper Lindsey Van got the call again this fall. Eight months after she donated bone marrow to help a cancer-stricken man, the doctors said they needed twice the number of stem cells they took from her last spring — which was 500 million. Last time, Van agreed to be on-call when the doctors needed her marrow. She ended up donating just two weeks after competing in the World Championships in Oslo, Norway....
NDC Thunder Bay is seeking a skilled, enthusiastic Head Coach to lead our organization into the future. Operating out of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a community renowned for its support of and involvement in cross-country skiing, the Head Coach will deliver appropriate services to a team of high performance, highly motivated athletes (LTC – TTC – TTW). The goal of NDC Thunder Bay is to provide a training environment that allows athletes to develop their potential...
When Mother Nature fails to deliver bountiful snow, races are often held on a surface that resembles a dirty ice rink. Artificial snow, old snow, dirt, ice and moisture stick together in a weird conglomerate that can be very challenging for wax technicians. Athletes are forced to train in less than optimal conditions, stressing them physically and mentally. Given the dearth of snow in North America this season and the very likely chance that the...
The only sure way to know, of course, is to wait a few weeks and see what happens when she gets to Europe. But there’s been some commentary from the peanut gallery about how dominant Diggins has been on the domestic circuit so far. This is one of those problems that FIS points are supposed to [...] Related posts:
The last weekend of Period 1 World Cup racing was in Slovenia. We had once again heard rumors of no snow and those rumors proved to be true when we arrived Wednesday evening to a heavy warm rain in Zrece, the town where we were staying for the weekend’s races. The venue was in Rogla, [...]
Join the tour and be a member of our team at the Nordic Combined World Cup final in Oslo, Norway March 5—11, 2012. Immerse yourself with the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team. Let our VIP guides take you up close and inside the training and competition arena. Live, dine, travel and ski with the Olympians as they battle for the podium in the birthplace of skiing: Norway! World Cup Tour 2012 VIP members will be...
With US XC Nationals less than two weeks away, Mother Nature has been most uncooperative. Fortunately, the organizing committee and volunteers in Rumford have picked up the slack and have the snow guns blowing at every possible opportunity. The efforts and tireless hard work of the Chisholm Ski Club organization has stockpiled enough blown snow to cover the entire racecourses for the championships. Over the past 10 to 15 years, artificial snow has been...
We traveled from Dusseldorf back to Davos with rumors that it was actually snowing! I was hesitant to believe it as it was pouring on the drive from the Zurich airport but when we climbed out of one of the upper tunnels on the drive, big fat fluffy flakes were falling. Snowflakes in the air and accumulating on the [...]
I really don't mean to rub it in, but we will be having a white Christmas here in Ramsau, Austria! If I could share some of this snow with all of you back in the States who are snowless, I for sure would. But as I can't, I have been doing my absolute b...
I was so happy that I was finally healing up and was to be able to ski fairly normally last Friday and Saturday. The ugly suit time trial was a lot of fun and lots of people came out to show off their ugly suits. It was so nice to see so many friends a...
I arrived back home for the Holidays on Monday night and will be home for a whole six days before heading back over to Germany. I have not been home for the Holidays in three years so it feels great … Continue reading →
With 12 days to go until U.S. Nationals begins in Rumford, ME, and natural flurries still absent from the weather forecast, Black Mountain is well on its way to making the snow necessary for a 3.75 k distance loop, two semi-overlapping sprint courses, a test track and a sit-ski loop. “As of Tuesday, we had two-thirds of the snow we needed to cover everything,” said Chief of Competition Carlie Casey. Black Mountain has about a...
ROSSLAND, British Columbia — There had been a few slips and trips and a couple of wrong turns along the way, but as competition drew to a close on Sunday, race organizers were pretty content. Crashes like the one that nearly took out every man in the fourth quarterfinal heat, and course confusion, which happened to at least two racers in the mass start, were not all that uncommon, said Rossland NorAm Chief of Competition...