Though World Championship silver medalist Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) is best known for carving out the history of her sport for U.S. Women, Randall has an equally large passion in building up the future of the sport through the organization Fast and Female. Fast and female is an organization that aims to build confidence in young girls and women while showing them the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle by getting them on a pair of...
After spending a week in Minnesota I made the trip out to Park City, Utah. I will be living and training out here for the next 5 weeks with the U.S. Ski Team coaches and a few of the top athletes in the country. The last couple days, and this up coming week is going to be pretty easy training-wise [...]
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After an epic start to the season – I left April 22nd and didn’t get back until May 14th – I’m back in LP. I guess I’ve been here for about a month now but I just haven’t got around to posting a new update. It took some prodding from a certain Jacked Up Old [...]
It's been a big two weeks of training now, and as I come to the end of it I can surely feel the 48 hrs completed to my core. That was always the plan though, and because of that June has been slightly tougher than in previous years. Tougher hour-wise, and although we've started with intensity as well, it's predominantly been level 3 type efforts with the odd level 4 or race effort to keep us honest.
Structured out-of-competition doping controls are a mandatory requirement on all International Federations under the new World Anti-Doping Code that became effective as of 1st January 2009. This emphasis is also reflected in the final statistics for the FIS testing program during the 2008/09 season. In the course of the past season, FIS performed as many as 1581 out-of-competition tests, both blood tests and urine (including EPO analysis). This is more than four times as many as the season before...
Concept2, the maker of the renowned Concept2 Indoor Rower, has released the SkiErg, a double pole machine modeled on the rowing version. An ergometer (or “erg”) is a device that measures work. That’s what sets the Concept2 SkiErg apart from others: it allows you to accurately assess your output, monitor your progress, and compare your scores with others using the Concept2 Performance Monitor. It’s the same monitor that has been helping rowers train for many years: Immediate, accurate...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Board of Directors met today in Colorado Springs, Colo., for its quarterly meeting and approved a budget of $16.5 million for winter National Governing Bodies. This brings the total funding from the USOC to winter NGBs over the fours years leading up to the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to $58.2 million. This signifies a substantial increase from the 2003-2006 winter quad ($37.5 million) to...
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Johnny Klister, providing commentary and insight on the Nordic ski scene since 2008, is accepting nominations for the first annual Johnny5. Five people who are changing Nordic skiing in the US will be selected from the nominees. Send your nominations and why to www.johnnyklister.com. According to the ubiquitous Johnny Klister, the award is pride. Lots of pride and mild notoriety on a small hiccup of a ski website. Though sources have reported that Andrew Johnson...
BURLINGTON, Vt. – University of Vermont senior Juergen Uhl
The elections for the FIS Athletes’ Commission were held during the FIS World Championships 2009. A total of 27 candidates in the six disciplines stood for election and athletes participating in any of the four FIS World Championships (Gangwon, Val d’Isère, Liberec and Inawashiro) had the chance to elect the representative(s) in their own discipline.
There is no perfect place. Some locations come closer than others, yet all the areas of "ski country" I have seen have certain locales which, on certain days, are near perfection. At Proctor Academy in Andover, NH there is Elbow Pond, a small glacier c...
On invitation of the Canadian Snow Sports Federation, the FIS Council is holding its spring meeting in Vancouver, the site of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, starting on Friday, 12th June 2009. The Council Meeting also includes visits to the Olympic competition sites for all six FIS disciplines at Cypress Mountain, Whistler Creekside and Whistler Olympic Park. The FIS Council’s agenda will include, among other things, review of the FIS World Cup calendars for the upcoming season 2009/2010 following minor modifications...