Drammen, Norway – Break time is over, and all the top World Cup skiers are back in action for Thursday’s classic sprint in downtown Drammen. 30,000 spectators are expected to pack the streets along the 1.2km course. The event was last held in 2008 when Boerre Naess led a Norwegian sweep of the men’s podium, and Virpi Kuitunen (FIN) won the women’s race. The course is not flat – as many city sprints tend to...
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Olympic Heavy Medal Tour to visit U.S. military bases in Southwest Asia Washington, D.C. – The 2010 U.S. Olympic Nordic Combined Team takes the helm of the Armed Forces Entertainment (
Even when captured static in an image these guys still look fast. A look at the Junior National sprint race through the lens of Boulder Nordic Sport and FasterSkier’s Shane MacDowell.
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The VISA U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team placed three in the top 15 overall in the 2009-10 International Ski Federation Continental Cup, ranking the team second just behind Germany, which placed four jumpers in the top 15. Fifteen-year-old Sarah Hendrickson took sixth overall in her first full COC season, even though she missed a few competitions due to school responsibilities. Hendrickson also took bronze at the FIS Nordic Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten, Germany in...
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Truckee, California – Adam Swank and Beth Reid won the 34th annual Great Race – a 30km freestyle race from Tahoe City to Truckee, California. Swank edged out Truckee resident and Far West Nordic skier Ian Case by 16 seconds. Philip Violett was just under three minutes back in third. Swank completed the race in a time of 1:11:30. Reid was an impressive 12th overall while winning the women’s race by just eight seconds over...
A week ago i had surgery to repair my broken thumb (from a rollerski crash in October). I was in surgery for over 2.5 hours and the doc cleaned it all up, got the cartilage back in the joint, lined it back up and put a pin in it. I spent all of [...]
This will have to wait, I’m struggling to do a bulk upload to my SFTP server (I get a lot of “preparing to copy…” and then usually an ExpanDrive disconnect) and I refuse to do them all individually TTW. Maybe from Rogla.
Norwegian Grass Upgraded on Air Canada! Devon Amazing evening overlooking the Fjord Oslo Photos- Day 1
We’re loading the vans for tomorrow’s 10 hour drive to Slovenia, and I’m bringing with me a healthy balance of acceptance, frustration, optimism and readiness after this weekends OPAs. FIS has results from at least Sunday’s race, and FasterSkier has an article, but I will go into a little more detail here than what you might get by reading those links – at least as far as my races are concerned.
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