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Understudies Fill Team Sprint Spotlight in Cogne

John TeafordJanuary 31, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. It was a day for hard-working backup players to show what they can do . . . A few weeks from now, the World Championships in Trondheim, Norway will include a Team Sprint, an...

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Klaebo Leads Six-Deep Norwegian Sweep in Engadin 20 k Mass Start

John TeafordJanuary 26, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. We feel like we know what World Cup skiing looks like—then FIS schedules a Mass Start race that begins in St. Moritz, and we watch a pack of racers V2-Alternate across the opening kilometers...

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The Boys are Back—Klaebo Schools Anger in Engadin Freestyle Sprint

John TeafordJanuary 25, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. You just can’t believe how fast . . . when skiers at the front of a World Cup Sprint field hit the gas, the top end speed they reach is simply astounding—fast enough that...

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Swedish Surge Continues in Engadin’s Mixed Relay

John TeafordJanuary 24, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Right now, Sweden is on a roll. Soon, Norway will be back at full-force. The top of the field is definitely getting ready for a World Championship showdown in a few weeks. In the...

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Sweden’s World Cup Weekend! Poromaa Swipes Les Rousses 20 k

John TeafordJanuary 19, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Les Rousses’ 20 k Mass Start would be a race conducted without the usual pace-makers. The Norwegian team had mostly stayed home for their own championships, and the Russian team was voted off the...

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Edvin Anger Powers to Les Rousses Sprint Win, Schoonmaker Fifth

John TeafordJanuary 18, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Straight after his victory in yesterday’s Norwegian National Championships, Even Northug (NOR) hopped on a plane and showed up in Les Rousses, France in time to contest his Sprint qualifier (in which he advanced...

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Le Rousses 10 k Freestyle—This Is Jessie’s Race

John TeafordJanuary 17, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. When Jessie Diggins (USA) first stepped onto the World Cup scene (as a fresh-faced Minnesota school kid straight out of Junior Nationals), her only real chances to excel were in Freestyle Sprints or 5...

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Incroyable! Ogden’s Distance Podium in Le Rousses

John TeafordJanuary 17, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Following a two-week break after the exhausting Tour de Ski, the FIS World Cup tour reignited in Les Rousses, France just down valley from the extreme-sports Mecca of Chamonix. Ironically, a number of the...

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Kreuger Flies up Alpe Cermis, Klaebo Wins Tour de Ski

John TeafordJanuary 5, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo doesn’t like this hill . . . he’s a sprinter, after all: he powers up short, punchy hills on his way to shrug-punctuated finish lines. That’s the way World Cups are...

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Klaebo Controls 20 k Skiathlon

John TeafordJanuary 4, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. The 2024-2025 Tour de Ski has already been a long, challenging adventure, and the end of the tour (tomorrow atop Alpe Cermis) offers a unique and daunting set of challenges. While Stage 6 of...

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Toblach 20 k—Amundsen Goes All In

John TeafordDecember 31, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. In an earlier age of cross-country skiing, nearly all races were against the clock (not mass start events). One-by-one, skiers disappeared into thick forests, there to battle conditions and strategies and personal demons on...

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Klaebo Controls Bonus-Heavy Toblach Mass Start, Schumacher Seventh

John TeafordDecember 29, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Mass Start Nordic racing ain’t fair—it just can’t be. The Classic track in Toblach, Italy is only four skiers wide, so many mass-start racers will find themselves off the back as soon as the...

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Nyenget Tops International Podium in Davos 20 k Classic

John TeafordDecember 15, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. World Cup Nordic skiing can seem like it’s become fairly predictable: the Swedish team dominates the Women’s Sprints, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (NOR) is unbeatable in the Men’s Sprints, and Therese Johaug (NOR)...

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Sweden’s Sundling and Ribom Rule Davos Team Sprint

John TeafordDecember 13, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. FIS may call it “sprinting,” but a Team Sprint is not sprinting . . . a Team Sprint consists of a max-effort qualifying round, a max+ effort final round, all these laps for each...

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Not a “Comeback” Anymore: Johaug Smashes Skiathlon, Diggins Third

John TeafordDecember 8, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. It’s weird . . . Skiathlon is hardly ever contested on the World Cup Tour, but is always on Olympic and World Championship event rosters. That means that Olympic and World Championship...

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Ogden Top Qualifier in Lillehammer Sprint, Klaebo Remains Wondrously Predictable

John TeafordDecember 7, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. The World Cup cross country season is a long and winding road—few athletes experience seasons that end the way they began. American, Ben Ogden, had his 2024 World Cup campaign interrupted by...

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Norway Rules in Lillehammer—Nyenget Scorches 10 k Freestyle

John TeafordDecember 6, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. There will be a Cross-Country World Championships in Trondheim, Norway later this winter—and it looks like the anticipation of those important race days on the International Ski Federation (FIS) calendar is causing this...

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The Difference a Day Makes—Klaebo out, Amundsen In, McMullen and Schumacher Seventh and Eighth

John TeafordDecember 1, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. We thought we knew who to watch today . . . then he dropped out. Prior to today’s race, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (NOR) withdrew from the 20 k Mass Start Freestyle, leaving the...

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New Season, Same Old Result: Klaebo Rules Ruka Sprint

John TeafordNovember 30, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Sprinting is a crazy thing to do on cross country skis. Courses are icy, uphills are steep, corners are tight, and the challenges of forcing this long, spindly equipment into a crowded and...

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World Cup Season Opens in Ruka: Johaug Returns but Karlsson Flies

John TeafordNovember 29, 2024

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. It’s been two full seasons since Therese Johaug last toed a starting line in a FIS World Cup distance event. In that time, the field has been able to convince itself that they...

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