www.boldbeautifulbiathlon.com on the Internet, targeted retail outlets across Western Canada, and by each one of the athletes personally as they travelled the world. “There are so many sponsors, volunteers, retailers, family, friends and members of the Canadian media to thank,” said Megan Tandy,” who starred on the memorable Rick Mercer show with Rosanna Crawford in January to help showcase the calendar which sparked the reprint. “Each person who backed this project will own a piece of our...
Last Sunday I competed in a 30 kilometer mass start Finnish Jr. Championship skate race in Ylitornio. The conditions were great, around -10 Celsius and sunny too. In Ylitornio there are big hills that are so perfect for skiing, one of the climbs being a little under 3.5k in the 10k loop. I started 40th of the over 80 man field. I was a little bit worried about starting in the middle but the pace...
Rick Halling is the Nordic Director for Atomic USA Captain William McDonald of the Texas Rangers was greeted by the Mayor of Dallas as he stepped off the train in 1896. A major prize fight had been illegally organized that was about to take place in town and it appeared that a serious riot was about to pursue. The mayor had wired for help which led to the arrival of Capt. McDonald. Legend has it...
Switzerland – Swiss World Cup skier Seraina Mischol cruised to victory in the Engadin Ski Marathon this past weekend. Fabio Santus (ITA) won the men’s race. Evelyn Dong (Saab Salomon Factory Team/XC Oregon) was the top American woman in 8th and Brayton Osgood (Fischer/Craft, XC Oregon) was 26th in the men’s event. The Engadin, the Swiss event in the World Loppet series, is a 42 km point-to-point freestyle race over fast rolling terrain. Times...
Whistler, British Columbia – The Paralympic Olympic test events were a great success. Reports from the US and Canada below. Bascio leads U.S. at Whistler Paralympic Test Event by Ian Lawless The U.S. Ski Team’s Monica Bascio (LW11, Evergreen, CO) made a triumphant return to the podium last Thursday at the IPC Paralympic Cross Country test event at Whistler Olympic Park, with a bronze in the 5-kilometer middle distance race. The American finished just :26...
ETHAN ALLEN FIRING RANGE, Jericho, Vt. – After falling short of sweeping both of last year’s individual races here at the Chief of the National Guard Bureau Biathlon Championships, Vermont Army National Guard Sgt. Jesse Downs was determined to vindicate himself at this year’s 28th annual event. Last year, Downs was defeated in the 10k race by just one second by a fellow All-Guard team member, 2nd Lt. Samuel Morse. He managed to edge out...
Duntroon, Ontario – The Canadian National Championships are underway. Both the Team Sprint and the 5/10km freestyle have been completed. 5/10km Freestyle – Monday, March 9th Robin McKeever took another stride closer to putting his name in the cross-country skiing history books as having won the most Canadian Championship medals ever after claiming the gold on Monday at the Haywood Ski Nationals in Duntroon, Ontario. The 35-year-old McKeever, who has guided his younger brother Brian to seven...
Do yourself a favor and watch the second half of the nordic combined large hill Gunderson event from Liberec. Great race, not only because Bill "Demons" Demong won but because of the fight behind him for the other places.
Truckee, California – With temperatures in the low 20s, sunny skies and a few gusts of wind — conditions were ideal for the first day of competition at the Junior Olympics hosted by Auburn Ski Club Monday. Spectators lined the 913m sprint course expected, and got, close finish after finish. Athletes agreed favorable conditions made for fast times. “There’s so much snow here I can’t really complain,” said Stella Holt, 15, of Whitefish...
New highlights of the World Championships from Universal Sports have been added to the FasterSkier media player. Highlights include Ola Vigen Hattestad’s sprint gold and Todd Lodwick’s gold medal performances! The media player is located on the left further down the homepage.
Two skiers from host Bates College take us on a video tour of the 5km loop at Black Mountain that will be used for the NCAA Championship 15/20km mass start event. Following the tour is a preview from the CCSAA division, the University of Colorado, and Denver University. NCAA Nordic Ski Championships — Central Region Preview by Matias Saari The NCAA Central Region will be represented by six schools from the Central Collegiate...
Phil Bowen was in Lahti over the weekend photographing all the races. Here is his slideshow form the 10/15km individual start freestyle. Use the links at the bottom of the post to view Phil’s slideshows from the other events. Phil Bowen began skiing at an early age in Grand Marais, MN and spent six years on the Continental Cup circuit and racing marathons with the Factory Team. He is currently a freelance photographer while living...
FAQ How does one get into this program? Selection of athletes for this new program will be based on a combination of performance criteria and a written application. Applicants will be expected to meet at least one of the following performance criteria: • Top 20 EISA Ranking for the current year (or last year that skier raced EISA races) • Top 10 USSA birth year ranking (on the most recent ranking list) • Top 20...
The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee announced the 74 men and 74 women selected to participate in the 2009 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships, to be held March 11-14 at Sunday River and Black Mountain in Bethel and Rumford, Maine. The championships will be hosted by Bates College. Participants are selected on a regional basis from two designated regions for Alpine skiing (East and West Regions) and three designated regions...
Rebecca Dussault (Saab Salomon Factory Team) raced to victory, putting together the best bike, snowshoe, run and randonnee ski times to capture the XTERRA Winter World Championship. Last year Rebecca Dussault had a two-minute lead heading into the final ski stage but was on a heavy telemark ski set-up while eventual champion Sari Anderson came screaming by her on a randonnee rig and took away the win. It was an important equipment lesson learned for...
A fantastic 2009 AXCS National Masters (NM2009) long weekend in Anchorage, Alaska was capped off Sunday with a picture-perfect Tour of Anchorage 50/40/25km fleet of races under ideal conditions. As the finale to the NM2009, the Tour of Anchorage served as the distance freestyle National Masters Championship with official distances for each masters age/gender category. With a pad of fresh packed powder from a Thursday evening storm, skiers departing from three different start locations were...
The ultrasound test this morning confirmed what the doctors believed. I definately have Popeliteal Entrapment Syndrome. Up next, Surgery.
According to the flight attendant it was 19 degrees when I arrived in Toronto on Friday...and that was in Celsius! Translation: 67 degrees F, t-shirts, and green grass. But by the time Don Ellis drove Laura and I through the rolling hills toward his childhood turf in Collingwood, ON, we began to see some snow. The heat blast has made it challenging for the volunteers and race organizers, but so
The scene around the Engadin start made every other race I’ve ever been to seem poorly attended. As we drove by the starting pen (it’s on a lake, so we could see it from the road above) an hour and a half before the start there were already 4-5 rows of skis lined up in the Elite A and Elite B waves. We had a parking pass, but weren’t quite sure in which lot it entitled us to park, so we ended up at least half a k from the staging area in a public lot. I’d been warned that it was a long walk from bag drop to the start, and I wasn’t too thrilled with the prospect of warming up, taking off all my warmups and then freezing for half an hour before the gun went off. So Marshall and I came up with a better plan. We would jog our skis down to the start, jog back, drop our clothes bags in the truck and then jog back down. Seemed like it would work pretty. With 35 minutes to go we took off down towards the start. We happened to run in to Kevin Hochtl and told him what we were doing. He said “that’s a great idea if you want to miss your start. Take your clothes off, put them in the bag, then go to the start.” So we did, except it was not as simple as it sounds.
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