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The Devon Kershaw Show: Christmas recap in Davos with the US Ski Team men
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The Devon Kershaw Show: Christmas recap in Davos with the US Ski Team men

Nathaniel HerzDecember 19, 2024

It’s vacation time. We hear from some of the U.S. Ski Team men holed up in their Christmas cottage in Davos, Switzerland — featuring a new lightning round quiz segment — and Devon and Nat take us through the weekend’s results. Happy holidays: We’ll be back during the Tour de Ski. Questions, comments, want us to use less (or more) profanity? Reach us at devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com.  

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Weinberger and Her Defending NCAA Champion Colorado Buffaloes Prepare for a New Season
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Weinberger and Her Defending NCAA Champion Colorado Buffaloes Prepare for a New Season

Marika Massey-BiermanDecember 17, 2024

This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers.  If you would like to see more articles like this one, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription.     As the collegiate racing season approaches, FasterSkier chatted with Jana Weinberger, Director of Skiing and Head Nordic Coach of the Colorado University Buffaloes. The Boulder-based team returns to racing after a decisive win at NCAAs last season on their home course.  FasterSkier: NCAAs...

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Slind Claims First-Ever World Cup Victory – Diggins and Brennan Finish Seventh and Eighth
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Slind Claims First-Ever World Cup Victory – Diggins and Brennan Finish Seventh and Eighth

Kennedy LangeDecember 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. As cowbells and horn music echoed through the course, the women’s 20 k classic marked the final competition before athletes enjoy a brief rest ahead of the Tour de Ski later this month....

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Nyenget Tops International Podium in Davos 20 k Classic
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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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Klaebo wins again in Davos while Ogden, Schumacher and Young lead the way for Team USA
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Klaebo wins again in Davos while Ogden, Schumacher and Young lead the way for Team USA

Kennedy LangeDecember 14, 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. With the winter solstice approaching, much of Period 1 racing takes place under the cover of darkness, and tonight was no exception. Stadium lights illuminated the snow-covered tracks while fiery bursts from barrels...

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Short-handed Sweden Still Dominates in Davos Sprint. Diggins Sixth
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Short-handed Sweden Still Dominates in Davos Sprint. Diggins Sixth

Ken RothDecember 14, 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 U.S. women’s cross-country team really likes the site of today’s Freestyle Sprints, Davos, Switzerland. Last season in Davos, Jessie Diggins (USA) claimed the podium twice including third place in today’s event, the Freestyle...

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Davos Team Sprint: Could It Be Anyone But Norway?
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Davos Team Sprint: Could It Be Anyone But Norway?

Luke DykowskiDecember 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. Friday night in Davos: A fast course, fireballs, and a remarkably flexible field for the Men’s Team Sprint Finals. After qualifying, the evening’s would-be winner was uncharacteristically unclear, with four nations represented in...

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Sweden’s Sundling and Ribom Rule Davos Team Sprint
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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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The Devon Kershaw Show, Lillehammer Recap: Did u know Norwegians are good at skiing?
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The Devon Kershaw Show, Lillehammer Recap: Did u know Norwegians are good at skiing?

Nathaniel HerzDecember 9, 2024

Norwegians are born with skis on their feet, blah blah blah, we know. They’re good at skiing and they won pretty much all the races on home snow this weekend…but they were still fun events to watch. Devon reports from Norway while Nat tunes in from melting Alaska; they don’t need any stinkin’ guests this week. Got questions for us? New cross-country skiing meme accounts we should follow? nat@fasterskier.com and devon@fasterskier.com. We’ll be back soon....

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Not a “Comeback” Anymore: Johaug Smashes Skiathlon, Diggins Third
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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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Schumacher Fifth in 20-K Skiathlon–Norwegians Sweep Podium
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Schumacher Fifth in 20-K Skiathlon–Norwegians Sweep Podium

Ken RothDecember 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. Today’s race—the 20 kilometer Skiathlon— marks the last day of competition in Lillehammer, Norway. On the men’s side of the racing there has been complete dominance of the weekend by Norway, with only...

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Ogden Top Qualifier in Lillehammer Sprint, Klaebo Remains Wondrously Predictable
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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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Lillehammer Freestyle Sprints—Sweden Dominates, Diggins Top American
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Lillehammer Freestyle Sprints—Sweden Dominates, Diggins Top American

Ken RothDecember 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. World Cup competition in Lillehammer, Norway continued today with the Freestyle Sprints. Notably, it also marked the return of Norway’s Kristine Stavaas Skistad after she missed the first weekend of competition recovering from...

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Johaug Leads Norwegian Sweep in Lillehammer 10-K Freestyle. Diggins Fifth
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Johaug Leads Norwegian Sweep in Lillehammer 10-K Freestyle. Diggins Fifth

Ken RothDecember 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. To state the obvious, team Norway does not need any help on the World Cup circuit. But as this weekend’s racing moved to Lillehammer, Norway—home of the 1994 winter Olympics— that’s exactly what...

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Norway Rules in Lillehammer—Nyenget Scorches 10 k Freestyle
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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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Diggins Wins in Ruka in Another Epic Race
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Diggins Wins in Ruka in Another Epic Race

Ken RothDecember 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. Going into today’s 20 kilometer mass start Freestyle race, the American team was a little back on its heels. This early in the season, it’s way too soon to talk about redemption. But...

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The Difference a Day Makes—Klaebo out, Amundsen In, McMullen and Schumacher Seventh and Eighth
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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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“We Wanted More . . .” Team USA’s Hard Look at a Low Day
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“We Wanted More . . .” Team USA’s Hard Look at a Low Day

FasterSkierNovember 30, 2024

BONUS ARTICLE: This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers.  If you would like to see more articles like this one, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription.   In the early morning hours of any FIS World Cup race day, messages are bouncing back and forth among a team of diligent FasterSkier writers, doing their best to craft illuminating articles on the race coverage flitting across our screens. And on...

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Ruka Sprints: Hagstroem Gets First Win. Rough Day For USA
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Ruka Sprints: Hagstroem Gets First Win. Rough Day For USA

Ken RothNovember 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. Last year the theme for much of the women’s sprint season was whether anyone from team Sweden could defeat Kristine Stavaas Skistad (NOR). However, this year, things will be different, for at least...

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New Season, Same Old Result: Klaebo Rules Ruka Sprint
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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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