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Canmore NorAm/SuperTour/Nationals Classic Distance

Day two of the first NorAm and SuperTour weekend was interval start classic, with 10km for the men and 5km for the women. The US SuperTour athletes took the chance to show their depth today, packing the top ten of the...

Canmore NorAm/SuperTour/Nationals Sprints

The NorAm series fully lived up to the North American Cup label in Canmore Friday with 1.3km free technique sprints to kick off a combined NorAm, SuperTour, and Mexican National Championships weekend. Full results for...

The Devon Kershaw Show – Breaking Down Ruka

This is a new project from FasterSkier and the podcast title pretty much says it: Devon Kershaw will be sharing his thoughts and insights of the 2019-2020 World Cup with us. It began this morning, Sunday, December 1, very...

Nordic Nation: World Cup Preview with Devon Kershaw

Devon Kershaw, for many years, was a go-to on the World Cup for Canada. He won a gold medal at the 2011 World Championship in the team sprint with Alex Harvey and finished second in the World Cup overall in...

Nordic Nation: The New Coach Episode with Sweden’s Ida Ingemarsdotter

In this episode, we speak with now-retired Swedish skier Ida Ingemarsdotter. The thirty-four-year-old Ingemarsdotter became the head coach for the Swedish national development team this fall. She'll be leading a crew of...

Ski Games for Kids of All Ages

(If the video doesn't play in your browser, click here) XC Ski Nation and Nordiq Canada recently created a series of ski game videos for kids. While these games teach many skills, the primary goal is to have fun on...

Nordic Nation: The Hard Work Pays off Episode with Rosie Brennan

Back in 2015, prior to her first go at a World Championships, Rosie Brennan was asked this: What’s your biggest motivation while racing?. “I am most motivated by wanting to show that my hard work was worth it,...

Nordic Nation Audio Short: Max Cobb and the Extraordinary IBU Congress

In this episode, we connect with Max Cobb, the CEO of U.S. Biathlon. He also sits on the International Biathlon Union’s (IBU) Executive Board. When we spoke, he had just returned from the IBU's “historic”...

Nordic Nation: Vegard Ulvang and the Will to Lead

Vegard Ulvang at fifty six years old remains an icon in Norway. With Olympic and Championship medals, a World Cup Overall title in 1990, he's in the lineage of Norwegian skiing royalty. Away from the tracks, Ulvang...

Early Season at Hatcher Pass: A Photo Essay

HATCHER PASS, above Palmer, Alaska — The phrase "early season skiing" tends to evoke several things for your average skier: Dark. Cold. Rock skis. November. And so on. Think a training opportunity to be endured as much...

One last look at XCX and The Castle

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Audio short with Marty Hall and NENSA’s Justin Beckwith

On the eve before a full weekend of rollerski racing in Lake Placid, New York, we spoke with NENSA's Justin Beckwith and cross-country ski supporter Marty Hall about their involvement with developing rollerski races in...

Nordic Nation: Troy Taylor and the Science of Sport at US Ski & Snowboard

As the Northern Hemisphere slowly tilts towards shorter days and colder temps ... and hopefully snow... we spoke with Troy Taylor at U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Taylor's official title is that of High Performace Director....

Nordic Nation: Finding Balance with Maddie Phaneuf

On May 26, Maddie Phaneuf wrote a crisp and revealing blog post about her struggle with mental health issues after the 2018 Olympics. The blog post was titled Invisible Battles, and like many who suffer from a...

Nordic Nation: Real Life with Kelsey Phinney

Kelsey Phinney brings to the sport of cross-country skiing a big-world view as she has rolled with challenges and fine-tuned her athletic performances. First things first: Phinney has become a voice for Parkinson’s...

Nordic Nation: The Steady State Episode with Kevin Bolger

"Everyday has been a new adventure," were the words from the U.S. Ski Team's (USST) Kevin Bolger as he summarized his first full-time season on the World Cup. At twenty-six-years-old, Bolger is a relatively new face on...

TWENTY ATHLETES NOMINATED TO 2019-20 U.S. CROSS COUNTRY SKI TEAM (Press Release)

Press release (FasterSkier will be running an article about the 2019/2020 U.S. Ski Team later this week.)...

Nordic Nation: The Proudly Alaskan Episode with Reese Hanneman

He is proudly Alaskan and has resisted the temptation over the years to migrate elsewhere. We are talking about twenty-nine-year-old Reese Hanneman who has in fact migrated from his hometown of Fairbanks to the more southern...

Looking for More Québec City Images? We’ve Got a Link

As we start to close out the race season, we wanted to provide a link to John Lazenby's gallery from the Québec City, Canada World Cup finals. The dichotomous weekend was the World Cup beginning for some and a stop...

A Look back on Seefeld

Vermont based photographer John Lazenby was recently immersed in Seefeld, Austria shooting images of the World Championships. We're posting this gallery with a few select images from Lazenby's shots. There's...

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