This is the second spring in a row that I’ve had major surgery on both of my legs. Its not my idea of a good time… in fact, its extremely painful. It hurts physically. Moving in the wrong direction and a lightening bolt of pain will shoot up my leg all the way to my ears, I [...]
The Austrian doping scandal is widening, with cyclists, triathletes, and now cross-country skiers implicated - if only by hearsay. Today, three more as-yet unnamed people were arrested under Austrian anti-doping law, and Christian Hoffmann was asked if he had any kind of affiliation with Stefan Matschiner, the coach at the center of the affair:... Hoffmann, who is still active, declared: "I was
Saab Salomon Factory Team athletes win both of America’s Premier Cross-Country Race Series, the USSA SuperTour and FIS NA Marathon Cups, for the second consecutive year. SuperTour News FIS North America Marathon Cup – 2009 – Men 1. Ivan Babikov 55 pts – Canada Ski Team-Saab Salomon 2. Bryan Cook 54 pts – CXC Elite 3. James Southam 42 pts – APUNSC FIS North America Marathon Cup – 2009 – Women 1. Rebecca Dussault 92...
One of the best features of the old FasterSkier calendar was that it allowed FasterSkier readers to post their own events. The new calendar also offers this functionality, and offers some more options. You can now provide a more detailed description of your event, as well as input more criteria to help people find it. The FasterSkier calendar has been one of the most robust on the web – it is a great resource –...
FasterSkier has launched a new feature – nothing revolutionary, but hopefully something people will find useful. We have been collecting RSS feeds from cross-country skiing blogs around the web and have compiled them in one location. You can find the most recent posts listed on the home page in the left column toward the bottom of the page. You can view all entries by going to
In the run up to the Olympics, Universal Sports is doing a series of retrospectives. This week Joe Battaglia looks back at Italian Manuela DiCenta’s stormy career and great success at the Lillehammer Games. The article also includes a photo gallery of DiCenta from those games. If nothing else, the fashions of that era are worth checking out! Olympic Time Capsule: Manuela DiCenta’s Medal Haul by Joe Battaglia, Universal Sports Manuela Di Centa experienced all...
USSA has officially launched the XC Coaches Certification. The course manual and excel training plan are now available for purchase from the USSA website. The test is available at here. The 2009 clinic schedule will begin with the Regional Elite Group camps throughout the U.S. If you’ve participated in a U.S. Ski Team clinic within the past two years of applying for your Level 100 certification, this category is satisfied. To get started, complete a...
Olympian Nina Gavrylyuk will coach an on snow camp in Ramsau, Austria this summer for Gunstock Nordic Association.
That pretty much sums up how I felt about the 50k in Fairbanks on Sunday. If you haven’t read the FasterSkier race report, you should, it was an exciting day up at the front of both the men’s and women’s races. Maybe the most exciting domestic races of the year. Stinson gives me far more credit than I deserve for being part of the chase group with Kuzzy. We were there, but more like around 15th as opposed to 10th, but hey, it’s good publicity! Anyways, on to the race.
…says ‘December.’ I’m pretty sure the pile of junk that is now up to its bottom has been building since then. It’s time to dig out, catch up and reorganize. Spring cleaning anyone? After Sunday’s race was in the bag, the horizon just suddenly opened up ahead of my eyes. It seems like for 3 months you [...]
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Washington D.C, – In a surprising move, President Obama has named Cross-Country Skiing the new American National Pastime, replacing baseball, which has held the spot for three-quarters of a century. “We are totally blown away,” said Bjorn McEvoy, the director of the organization US Skiing As A National Pastime or USSANP. “We knew that we would prevail eventually, but were preparing for the long haul. We really didn’t think we would see this before Mongolia...
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We have been hearing quite a bit about the Mt. Redoubt eruption that has spewed ash over parts of Alaska. This has not done good things to the snow pack – Tim Kelley shared some photos. Since he took these, it has snowed, cleaning up the trails for now – the ash lies in wait, ready to appear at the next thaw. From a ski racing perspective it was fortunate the Fairbanks and US Distance...
Since 1997 with the beginning of spring and end of the skiing season the 24 Relay at Lappe has been a test of endurance and speed for both recreational and elite athletes in Thunder Bay. In the 24 hour period from March 21 – 22 several records were set. Kelly Henry of Thunder Bay skied just over 285 km eclipsing the former 265 km standard set in 2005. In the team event a four man...
The Associated Press reported that the great Gunde Svan has resigned from his position as Manager of the Swedish national Ski Team. Svan, 47, took the position in late 2007. He was brought on to repair a rift between the Swedish Federation and several of the top athletes in the country. The World Cup team was on the brink of falling apart, with top skiers Mathias and Tobias Fredriksson, Bjorn Lind, and Anders Soedergren splitting...
Dear Athlete/Coach, I would like to take this time to introduce myself for those of you who do not know me. My name is Ira Edwards, and I am a Nordic Technical Representative for Rossignol Ski Company. I have been racing and now working for Rossignol for over 16 years and involved in Nordic ski racing for even longer. I am also the Director of the RED-WHITE-BLUE Support Program and am looking forward to continuing...