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Enjoying Park City’s Fall Color, Kocher Sets Sights on More World Cup Top-Tens in 2013

Chelsea LittleOctober 8, 2012

By all accounts, Canada’s Zina Kocher had a great season on biathlon’s World Cup in 2012. After a disappointing Olympics in Vancouver and then a dismal 2011, she joined the newly-formed Biathlon Alberta Training Center, skated through trials races, and rejoined the World Cup, where she had three top-ten finishes and landed 19th in the overall standings, her best-ever ranking in nine seasons on the circuit. This year she’s training to more consistently hit the...

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Spray Drag Running Race Returns to Canmore

Alex KochonOctober 6, 2012

2ND ANNUAL SPRAY DRAG RUNNING RACE October 20th, 2012 Alberta World Cup Academy in a running race up the Spray Lakes road! All proceeds go to helping support the team for their upcoming season… According to AWCA coach and race organizer Stefan Kuhn, “It’s basically all up hill … Starts on the river and we run all the way up then past the nordic center and up to the Spray dam, which looks over Canmore.” ...

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Nordic Town USA Challenge

Alex KochonOctober 5, 2012

Is it based on the number of km of trails, number of skiers, skiers per capita, or some other criteria? We at the National Nordic Foundation (NNF) believe it should be contributions to our status as a “Nordic Nation” We call on all citizens of America’s Nordic ski towns to participate in the NNF’s Nordic Town USA Challenge. The National Nordic Foundation exists to support tomorrow’s Nordic stars today and thereby grow our status as...

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USST Athletes Descend on Park City, Join Several Others

Alex KochonOctober 5, 2012

The U.S. Nordic Ski Team’s final dryland camp of the season starts in earnest on Monday, but many of its athletes are already getting after it in Park City, Utah. Liz Stephen, Noah Hoffman and Tad Elliott generally live in the high-altitude training mecca when they’re not traveling, and Jessie Diggins arrived almost a week ago. According to U.S. Ski Team (USST) head coach Chris Grover, the Alaska Pacific University (APU) athletes rolled into town...

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After Roll-Run-Row, Craftsbury Skiers Primed for Season Ahead

Alex KochonOctober 5, 2012

It downpoured across much of the Northeast on Wednesday. Those at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in northern Vermont hardly noticed. Owner Judy Geer called it “drizzle.” That morning, about 20 Craftsbury Green Racing Project (CGRP) athletes and coaches participated in the second annual Roll-Run-Row race, which pitted the some of the nation’s best nordic skiers against top-tier rowers. All belonged to the same program, but the idea was to have some competitive fun while pushing...

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World Record Rollerskiing Event with Perianne Jones

Alex KochonOctober 4, 2012

World Record Rollerskiing Event with Perianne Jones, National Team Member and Olympian (Note: This press release has been updated to reflect the correct date of the rollerski event.) Fresh Air Experience is once again hosting a rollerskiing event in Gatineau Park, Quebec, this time with guest star Perianne Jones, National Team member. Sunday, Oct. 14th at 8:00 a.m., parking at P9, alternate parking at P8 Put on your rollerskis and go to the middle parking lot between P9...

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Canadian Women ‘Far Fitter and Moving Faster’ at PC Camp

Alex KochonOctober 4, 2012

After nearly two weeks of dryland training in Park City, Utah, the Canadian women’s cross-country team will pack up and head to St. George on Saturday. Saint what? One of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., St. George is tucked in the southwest corner of the state about 300 miles (483 kilometers) from Park City. It requires about a five-hour drive south, and the group is going to the 75,000-population metropolis to train through...

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Clegg in Hospital, Myslicki and Crooks Act Against Aggressive Driving

Alex KochonOctober 3, 2012

The average adult makes somewhere around 35,000 decisions per day. Before setting out for a road ride on Sunday, three retired Olympians made a couple of casual ones. First, former Canadian national-team members Robin Clegg (biathlon), Jason Myslicki (nordic combined) and Sean Crooks (cross-country skiing) decided to ride between 80 to 100 kilometers just outside Calgary, Alberta. Second, they picked a quiet township road, which would lead them to a coffee shop in the suburb...

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Early Anchorage Snow Heralds Coming Winter

Audrey ManganOctober 2, 2012

It’s here: the first skiable snow of the season fell over the weekend in Anchorage, Alaska, much to the delight of area skiers and envy of everyone in the continental U.S. Rock skis were still necessary, but the close access, crisp air and fresh powder ushered in that first-snow excitement even for athletes used to skiing throughout the summer on Eagle Glacier. “I was a little blown away by the snow,” said Alaska Pacific University’s...

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U.S. Paralympics Nordic Brings Numbers to Lake Placid

Alex KochonOctober 1, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — As they hammered out loops at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg biathlon center, several athletes on sit-ski mountain boards put their heads down. Everything they were doing — five or so laps lasting a few minutes each on pavement and grassy trails — required upper-body strength. At the end of each interval, they reentered the stadium for shooting practice, where the adaptive skiers rolled onto their stomachs and aimed at their targets....

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Weathering the Drought

Audrey ManganSeptember 28, 20124

There is a certain optimism that hangs in the air now that October is fast approaching. The temperature has cooled, leaves are turning red and snow is already accumulating in the mountains. Every year, signs of the changing seasons bring a sudden need for snow sport enthusiasts to urgently dial in their gear to be ready the instant the first skiable snow falls. Skiers may be chomping at the bit more than usual this season...

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Cross Country Canada Launches Unique Project Podium Initiative

Alex KochonSeptember 27, 2012

Ski to the Podium with Canada’s Cross-Country Ski Athletes —Cross Country Canada Launches unique Project Podium fundraising initiative— ( CANMORE, Alta.—Fresh off one of the most successful seasons in the history of the program, Cross Country Canada is giving fans the opportunity to ski with its athletes to the international podium, thanks to Project Podium. Widely recognized that high-performance athletes need financial backing to succeed at the international level, Project Podium takes fundraising to a...

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U.S. Ski Team Elite Camp: Time-Trial Video

Alex KochonSeptember 27, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Exactly a week ago, 40 elite skiers threw down some solid efforts at a U.S. Ski Team (USST) classic rollerski time trial, with the fastest men and women moving on to their respective quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. Sophie Caldwell and Andy Newell of the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team topped the women’s and men’s fields in the sprint workout. For more about the races,

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Finnish Film Accuses Mieto, di Centa of Using Performance Enhancers

Audrey ManganSeptember 25, 20124

Finland’s Juha Mieto skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. The forthcoming Finnish documentary Sinivalkoinen Valhe (“Blue and White Lies”) made waves in the European ski world this week by accusing two prominent figures in skiing history of taking performance-enhancing drugs at the height of their careers: Finland’s Juha Mieto and Italy’s Manuela di Centa. Mieto has never been publicly accused of cheating before and is denying allegations from the film. Di Centa was...

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USST Elite Camp: Wrapping up with Natural Intervals, Final Thoughts

Alex KochonSeptember 22, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Friday morning’s U.S. Ski Team workout at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg nordic trails wasn’t designed to be too hard. According to men’s coach Jason Cork, the idea was to run with poles and ski bound for 45 minutes at Level 3 – a sort of tempo pace. Once a couple dozen athletes between the U.S. Ski Team (USST) and National Elite Group (NEG) got going around the designated loop, most realized...

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Caldwell, Newell Stay Ahead in USST Camp Rollerski Sprints (Updated)

Alex KochonSeptember 20, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Flinging around a sharp corner about a ski length behind one another, Sophie Caldwell (Stratton Mountain School T2 Team), Ida Sargent (Craftsbury Green Racing Project), Caitlin Patterson (CGRP) and Jessie Diggins (SMS) each lowered into a tuck and prepared for a long, steep descent. Diggins called out to the others just ahead of her in the classic rollerski sprint at Lake Placid’s Olympic Jumping Complex. “That’s it,” the U.S. Ski Team...

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Aerobic Capacity, Bjørn Dæhlie and Predictors of Endurance Greatness

Audrey ManganSeptember 20, 20124

A few weeks ago 18-year-old Norwegian cyclist Oskar Svedsen turned heads by doing something no one has done before in the world of physiological testing: he recorded a V02max of 97.5 mL/kg/min. The number surpasses the high water mark long held by Bjørn Dæhlie (96 mL/kg/min), making Svedsen the young new king of aerobic capacity. Whether it has any significance or not, cross-country skiing can no longer lay claim to the best V02max in...

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First American to Win Ski Mountaineering Gold, Silitch Preps for Winter

Alex KochonSeptember 19, 20121

In late May, weeks after Nina Silitch finished her last race of the season, loads of her ski-mountaineering equipment still occupied more than half the space in her bedroom. Her husband, Michael, couldn’t understand why, after six months on the World Cup and international circuit, she wasn’t ready put it away. At 39, Silitch was coming off a career-best season in most respects – she became the first American to earn World Cup gold in...

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Notes and Quotes: Climb to the Castle Edition

Audrey ManganSeptember 19, 2012

WILMINGTON, New York — Ahh, September in the Adirondacks. Even when it rains, nothing quite beats a camp featuring long runs in the High Peaks, cliff jumping at the Flume and, most importantly, a five-mile suffer-fest up Whiteface Mountain. In case you somehow missed what happened in the Climb to the Castle, Liz Stephen (U.S. Ski Team) demolished the women’s field by over five minutes on the five-mile climb, setting a significant personal record for...

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What Can We Expect from Northug?

Audrey ManganSeptember 18, 20122

By all accounts, Petter Northug’s 2011-2012 campaign was an unexpected failure. The high-profile Norwegian star, who usually finished at or near the top of every podium he contended for, specifically set out to do two things last winter: take the Tour de Ski and win the Vasaloppet. He came up short on both counts; Switzerland’s Dario Cologna and Marcus Hellner of Sweden both beat him in the Tour in first and second, respectively, and a...

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