Devon Kershaw – FasterSkier.com

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Catching up with Summer and Zach Caldwell

Devon KershawAugust 25, 2021

With wildfire smoke obscuring mountain views and compromising easy breathing in much of the West, it’s safe to say it is summer. In this episode of the Devon Kershaw Show, we mostly chat with Zach Caldwell of Vermont’s Caldwell Sport. Last season, during one of our conversations with Zach, we discussed some ideas we’d like to see in terms of an enhanced broadcast from FIS for their cross-country World Cup coverage. Zach came up...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/06/venue13321fm277-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Prepping for Beijing 2022 – A Chat with Dr. Øyvind B. Sandbakk

Devon KershawJune 25, 2021

When it comes to the leading research regarding nordic sport, we often associate Dr Øyvind B. Sandbakk with publishing keen information regarding high performance. Sandbakk is the managing director at the Centre for Elite Sports Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Beyond just simply chit-chatting about the current state of affairs regarding cross-country skiing in Norway, Kershaw discusses the recently published paper titled, “Preparing for the Nordic Skiing...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Drolet070321fm31473-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Seeking Continuity in Canada

Devon KershawMay 6, 2021

There was a time when the Canadian National Cross-Country Ski Team was the North American team to watch. As skiers like Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins found their footing, Becky Scott, Chandra Crawford, and Sara Renner were medaling at the Olympics. Alex Harvey and Kershaw won team sprint gold at the 2011 World Championships. And Harvey continued to romp – winning the 2017 World Championship gold in the 50k. Along the way, like many...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Diggins14032021fm01228-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Closing it Out — Diggins Wins the Overall and the Engadin Experience with Bill McKibben

Devon KershawMarch 14, 2021

The main point of the weekend was the coronation of Jessie Diggins as the overall winner of the cross-country World Cup. She becomes the first American woman to do so. Historic? Yes. Adding to the crystal collection, she’ll haul across the Atlantic on her trip home the distance globe too. We discuss the racing in Engadin, Switzerland which consisted of mass start classic races on Saturday and fun point to point skate races on Sunday...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Group070321fm31655-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia News Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: The 2021 World Championship 50 k Classic and 10 meters of Critical Real Estate with Alex Harvey

Devon KershawMarch 7, 2021

We are catching our breath here with Alex Harvey with the 50 k classic rundown on the podcast. On another planet where the perceived forces of good and evil do not wear Lycra, this race is simply catalogued as another classic, not a mega-classic. Such is life and such is racing. This 50 k classic monster came down to the wire as Russia’s Alexander Bolshunov and Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo flowed into the final...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Johaug06032021fm00725-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: 2021 World Championships Women’s 30 k Classic

Devon KershawMarch 6, 2021

Here’s Therese Johaug after her dominant 30 k classic performance at the 2021 World Championship: “I never have been in such good shape. I am so happy. I’m 33 years and I know I’m getting older and older and I know that this time ends soon, so I am just so happy.” What the World Cup field has historically known is a Johaug in shape. Outright, she’s likely the best distance skier of all-time....

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Group050321vt29607-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: 2021 World Championships 4 x 10 k Relay

Devon KershawMarch 5, 2021

One can expect some tactics during a 4 x 10 k relay in heavy snowfall for world championship glory. To summarize nearly two hours of racing in three sentences there was this: Russia off the front, then in the middle. Norway in the middle, then off the front. Then Klæbo becoming the king of coy as he tempts Bolshunov and pounces for the win. This 4 x 10 k relay provided a wealth of storyline...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Holund030321fm27653-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: 2021 World Championships 15 k Skate with Kris Freeman

Devon KershawMarch 3, 2021

For what it is worth, and it is worth something, the 15 k interval start skate at the 2021 World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany lived up to the hype as the race of truth. Coming in, we would have expected Russia’s Alexander Bolshunov to search, seek, and destroy every centimeter of this salted and then melting course. It was a grind for all. And throughout the laps on a brutal course, the Russian was...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/03/Johaug020321fm27186-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: 2021 World Championships 10 K Skate – A Johaug Win and a Diggins Near Miss

Devon KershawMarch 2, 2021

In today’s 10 k story on FasterSkier, here’s how it began: “The high pressure continued at the 2021 World Championships on Tuesday in more ways than one. Oberstdorf, Germany’s temps hovered around 50 degrees Fahrenheit for the start of the women’s 10-kilometer individual freestyle, and a rarefied number of skiers poised to step on the podium. The pressure cooker that is the individual start, with skiers setting off at 30-second intervals was on display...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2020/05/Parmakoski07022020fm9331.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Race Waxing and Skis in Warm Conditions with Zach Caldwell

Devon KershawMarch 1, 2021

In this episode, we speak with Zach Caldwell — Putney, Vermont ski whisperer, and wax nerd at Caldwell Sport. We’ve received questions from listeners asking about the difficulty of waxing (for both skate and classic) as well as ski selection when the temperatures spike beyond the melting point for snow. That has been the case in Oberstdorf, Germany the last week, site of the 2021 Nordic Ski World Championships. That said, it’s a “rest day”...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/03/0000073865_HiRes_05TNFK10073NY90D67D6P01HWBNL.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: 2021 World Championship Team Sprint with Alex Harvey (And a 10th Anniversary Celebration Concerning Oslo 2011)

Devon KershawFebruary 28, 2021

In this Sunday, World Championship team sprint episode of the Devon Kershaw Show, we have a special guest from Québec , the actual Prince of Québec … Alex Harvey. It has been ten short or long years since he and Kershaw won the classic team sprint at the 2011 Oslo World Championships. First off, before listening to the episode today…check out the videos posted below. To set the scene, this win goes down at...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/02/Johaug270221fm3790-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: The 2021 World Championship Skiathlon with the Boss – Kristin Størmer Steira

Devon KershawFebruary 27, 2021

The most special of special guest on the podcast today, Kristin Størmer Steira. Størmer Steira, a retired Norwegian ski star, chats it up with Devon from Lillehammer, where the two are busy raising two young daughters. According to a 2014 FasterSkier article on the couple, evidently, Kershaw’s “great smile”, a legacy of his youth in Sudbury, won Størmer Steira over. In her own right, Størmer Steira was a Norwegian ski star. Back in 2005, Størmer...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/02/Group250221vt2738-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: 2021 World Championship Classic Sprint with Lenny Valjas

Devon KershawFebruary 25, 2021

The storylines were many during Thursday’s classic sprint at the 2021 World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany. As the backdrop for the racing — the temps were high, the salted course began to breakdown in the final corner, and running uphill with skis on … at lightning speed … was mandatory. Norway swept the men’s podium with none other than classic kingpin Johannes Høsflot Klæbo taking the win. For certain, as this was on display...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2018/01/Randall21012018fm0547.jpeg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Kicking it with Kikkan -The World Champs Preview

Devon KershawFebruary 23, 2021

The legend is set in stone: Kikkan Randall brought a new intensity and bottom-line results to the U.S. Ski Team. Three overall sprint globes to her name, five Olympics, a bronze at the 2017 Lahti World Champs in the skate sprint, a silver at the 2009 Liberec, Czech Republic World Champs skate sprint, a gold at the 2013 Val di Fiemme, Italy World Champs in the team sprint (with Diggins), and the 2018 Olympic Gold...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/02/tomimakipaa1-20.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: World Juniors/U23s in roughly 60 Minutes – Part 2 with Noah Hoffman

Devon KershawFebruary 15, 2021

In this episode, we chat about the weekend’s racing from World Juniors and U23s. This is part two of our coverage of Worlds for the younger folks. This episode covers the relays and mass start classic races that concluded Sunday in Vuokatti, Finland. On the show is longtime Kershaw friend Noah Hoffman, who it turns out, beyond his cross-country skiing endurance exploits, is an investment partner with Kershaw. We hear about the weekend’s racing,...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/02/tomimakipaa1-34-1280x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: World Juniors/U23s in roughly 60 Minutes – Part 1

Devon KershawFebruary 12, 2021

Devon jumps into the World Junior/U23 fray. This is part one of our coverage of Worlds for the younger folks. This episode covers the classic sprints and the individual skate races that concluded today in Vuokatti, Finland. The racing began on February 9 with the junior classic sprint. The U23 classic sprints were postponed on Wednesday due to the severe cold in Finland. Those sprints were held Thursday. Friday was a jam-packed race day with...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/02/Group070221cm7029-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: All Aboard the Ulricehamn, Sweden Sprint Train with Kershaw and Cockney

Devon KershawFebruary 7, 2021

In this episode, Devon and former Canadian National Team member Jess Cockney discuss the intricacies of Saturday’s skate sprint and Sunday’s team sprint in Ulricehamn, Sweden. The stage has been set, the first few acts are over, yet the curtain has not closed — Jessie Diggins with a third place in Saturday’s sprint brings her closer to securing the World Cup overall as the season enters it’s last month and a half of racing. No...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/01/Diggins290121vt158-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Jessie Diggins Crushes and all the News From the Falun World Cup Race Series

Devon KershawJanuary 31, 2021

The second weekend with Norway back on the scene was a reveal. Therese Johaug, arguably the second greatest cross-country skier of all time, was bested by an in form and dialed in Jessie Diggins. Interval starts, for what its worth, most often do not command a television or streaming audience. This show is a must watch. It may just be Diggins’ best career race. So we chat a ton about Diggins. But we also...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2021/01/Bolshunov24121vt008-1200x720.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Bolshunov-Bolshunov-Bolshunov…and the Weekend’s Racing from Lahti

Devon KershawJanuary 24, 2021

We all thought the big news would be the return of Norway. And certainly, that was the news, just not the lead. Norway swept both the men’s and women’s skiathlon podiums on Saturday and won the 4 x 5 k and 4 x 7.5 k relays on Sunday. But…and this is a big but, Alexander Bolshunov made the headlines with his violent behavior as he crossed the finish line in Lahti on Sunday. Down the...

https://fasterskier.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2020/03/Niskanen1320vt056-e1583066800300.jpg

Multimedia Podcasts The Devon Kershaw ShowThe Devon Kershaw Show: Listener Questions, Unexpected Outcomes, and Norway Returns

Devon KershawJanuary 21, 2021

In the big global picture, much has transpired since Jessie Diggins won the Tour de Ski. On the macro side of things, that being on the World Cup, a break has transpired. On Saturday, the cross-country World Cup returns with a skiathlon. The more notable news is the Norwegian national team will spice up the skiing as they return from a self-imposed hiatus from the World Cup since early December. We also answer some...

Older Posts