With Fast and Female catering to young female skiers for the last eight years, Andy Newell and Simi Hamilton finally came up with an option for boys: Speed Camp. On Sunday afternoon, the same time as Fast and Female's Champ Camp, the U.S. Ski Team hosted its first all-male camp for juniors at Soldier Hollow.
Note: This tribute has been updated to include comments from Mike Gallagher's wife, Tyna, and additional photos from John Estle. The passing of former U.S. Ski Team head coach Mike Gallagher on his 72nd birthday last week shocked the ski community and many that knew him.
FasterSkier caught the US Biathlon team during one of their hardest workouts of the training season in Lake Placid, with the added bonus of watching German gold medalist Andrea Henkel rollerski around with them.
There's just one season separating Jean Philippe Le Guellec from retirement, but the recent World Cup winner is hardly complacent about his form as a biathlete. Instead, he's aggressively making changes to his technique, shooting, and strength as part of a resurgent Canadian men's squad - and finding extra motivation for Sochi in the process.
The Alberta World Cup Academy is inviting participants to its third-annual Spray Drag running race up Spray Lakes Road on Oct. 12 in Canmore, Alberta. Winners take 50 percent of the proceeds, and a Lactate Challenge is also on the table.
Fewer than two weeks after straining a muscle in her foot, which prompted an immediate trip to the Lake Placid hospital, Jessie Diggins is out of the boot, without pain and classic striding in Park City, Utah. "It just seemed to be an out-of-the-blue thing," she said. "I actually had no warning."
Noah Hoffman didn't check the elevation on the Stelvio Pass glacier in the Italian Alps while packing for a two week training camp with Kris Freeman and the Maine Winter Sports Center Olympic Development Team. It turned out to be just shy of 11,000 feet, the highest Hoffman and Freeman have ever lived and trained.
Timed with the sunrise in Ancient Olympia, Greece, the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony on Sunday marked the start of a four-month countdown to the 2014 Winter Games exactly 132 days away in Sochi, Russia.
There's a bit of a mystique surrounding the Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, Vt., and we wanted to find out more about the treasured training site and who exactly can use it.
Researchers have completed a "cradle-to-grave" life cycle analysis of a pair of skis, estimating the environmental impact of everything from how the raw materials are procured to the manufacturing process to distribution and throwing away an old pair. Turns out, your skis are probably more sustainable than your hiking boots, but there's still ways to improve.
School is back in session, the days are getting shorter and there's limited time to squeeze in a workout. It's time to pull together everything you learned over the summer and be efficient and effective with the planning of your fall workouts. Pete Leonard, the experienced junior coach at the Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks, Alaska, explains how.
The Watershed School in Fairbanks, Alaska, turned its sledding hill —an underused pile of dirt — into a Nordic terrain park. Picture a bunch of enthusiastic kids zipping around on cross country skis during recess. That's exactly what the principal/groomer envisions.
The Olympics are a premier sporting event, but there are times when it is hard to separate politics and human rights from the glitz and glamour of the Games. There are many world issues on the table as we head toward Sochi, but the new Russian anti-gay laws have are currently front and center.
A staple on the World Cup and the U.S. relay team, biathlete Leif Nordgren feels "more set" for the Olympics than last time around, when he was still a junior but trying the qualification process anyway. He told us about a good summer of training, changes in shooting, and navigating ski testing, boredom, and mashed-potato snow in the Oberhof ski tunnel.
Liz Stephen and Tim Burke make skiing uphill for five miles look like a piece of cake. That's because there was nobody within about three minutes of either of them in their Climb to the Castle wins on Sunday.
She might make it to the Olympics this year, four years from now, or never in her career. But Caitlin Patterson of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project is enjoying the process of her development as a skier, wherever it may take her.
Seraina Boner, a former Swiss national team skier, has transformed herself into the best long-distance skier in the world. Whether training with Team Coop in Norway or jumping in with Dario Cologna in Davos, she’s working towards a Vasaloppet victory - the one big thing that's missing from her resume.
It happens all too often. Inexperienced skier takes off from the start of a distance race as though it is a sprint qualifier, only to struggle through several more kilometers. Will Sweetser, competitive programs director at the Maine Winter Sports Center, has a workout that encourages athletes to take an honest look at their individual ability and find a sustainable pace for every distance.
Although the transition will be gradual, there will be a change in leadership at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. Incoming CEO and president Tiger Shaw starts Oct. 1 and plans to learn from current chief Bill Marolt, his former coach on the U.S. Alpine Ski Team, for the rest of the 2013/2014 season.
Ever wonder how skiers from places like Argentina get to go to the Olympics? The meet qualifying standards just like everybody else, while also meeting their own nation's criteria. Even in a place like New Zealand, it's not easy. " I do not understand New Zealand's reluctance to support winter sport, other than those in the top 16 in the world,” national-team member Sarah Murphy says.