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After Thrill of Teammates’ Gold, Canadian Women Push Through For 14th Place in Relay

Chelsea LittleMarch 3, 2011

When Dasha Gaiazova started the 4 x 5 k relay at World Championships in Oslo on Thursday, she still had a hangover. Was it from drinking? No. “We went to bed on time,” Gaiazova told FasterSkier, promising that the women’s team had behaved themselves and not celebrated too hard. But after her teammates Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw won the men’s team sprint in thrilling fashion on Wednesday and got to stand atop the podium...

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Top-Ten Performances from American Women in Last Days of U26 Biathlon

Chelsea LittleMarch 3, 2011

Last year, Susan Dunklee’s top finish at U26 Open European Biathlon Championships was 17th place in the sprint. At the time, she was pleased with the performance, but this year, she’s eclipsed that success – twice. In the open individual race at this year’s U26 event, which took place in Ridnaun, Italy last week, Dunklee finished 15th – an auspicious start to the week for the only senior U.S. woman nominated for the races. Then...

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Northug Might Sit Out Relay

Inge ScheveMarch 3, 2011

After Northug reported respiratory issues following the team relay on Wednesday, he had an entire nation worried about the relay on Friday.

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Hattestad Can’t Top Harvey; Norwegians Wonder “What If?”

Nathaniel HerzMarch 3, 20115

When Canadian Head Coach Justin Wadsworth first got his hands on a start list for Wednesday’s World Championships team sprint, he liked what he saw. His athletes Devon Kershaw and Alex Harvey were going up against some of the biggest names in the sport: Sweden’s Emil Joensson, Russia’s Alexander Panzhinskiy and Nikita Kriukov, and Norway’s Ola Vigen Hattestad and Petter Northug. But when he took a look at the running order, Wadsworth thought he saw...

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Swedes Sensational in Team Sprint Win in Oslo

Topher SabotMarch 2, 20112

Norwegians Petter Northug and Marit Bjoergen have now both sat out a race at World Championships – not Charlotte Kalla though, and the Swedish star has no plans to take a day off. In another day at the office, Kalla teamed with Ida Ingemarsdotter to win the women’s World Championship classic team sprint in Oslo, Norway, skiing away from Finland and Norway in the last lap. The team sprint features pairs of athletes, alternating laps,...

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U.S. Fifth and Sixth in Final NoCo Individual Comp in Oslo

Nathaniel HerzMarch 2, 2011

After just missing the medals in the first two competitions at the 2011 World Championships, an American-born athlete was back on top of the nordic combined podium on Wednesday. Billy Demong? Nope. Todd Lodwick? Guess again. Maybe Johnny Spillane? Or the two flying Fletcher brothers, Bryan and Taylor? No, no, and no. Instead, it was Jason Lamy Chappuis, a French citizen born in Montana, who took the win in the individual large hill competition in...

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Best of Times for Canadians, But Merely Solid Day for U.S.

Chelsea LittleMarch 2, 20111

The Canadian men might have won gold in today’s World Championship team sprint, but they weren’t the only ones walking away from Holmenkollen Stadium in Oslo with smiles on their faces. Another Canadian team was excited about its results, too: Canadians Perianne Jones and Dasha Gaiazova, who finished sixth in the women’s final. After the semifinal, in which the pair was forced to ski mostly alone after Slovenia, Norway, and Sweden went off the front,...

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World Champs Team Visits U.S. Embassy in Norway

Ben TheyerlMarch 2, 2011

OSLO, Norway (Mar. 1) – The residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Norway took on a festive atmosphere this week as the U.S. Nordic World Championship Team was hosted by Ambassador Barry White to a reception during the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo. The historic Villa Otium played host to over 50 athletes, coaches and parents in Norway for the World Championships at Holmenkollen. “It’s a real honor to have the U.S....

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Despite “Spectacular” Bonk, Freeman Leads North Americans in 15k

Chelsea LittleMarch 1, 2011

When Matti Heikkinen caught Kris Freeman just three kilometers into Tuesday’s 15 k classic race at World Championships, Freeman was surprised. “I was thinking, holy God, what is going on,” Freeman told FasterSkier. “Turns out he was having the race of his life.” The Finn has just one World Cup victory to his name this season, and came into the individual start race more favored than Freeman, but only barely. So when he had made...

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Dark Horse Heikkinen Trades World Champs. Bronze for Gold

Nathaniel HerzMarch 1, 20114

At the 2009 World Championships in the Czech Republic, Finland’s Matti Heikkinen combined a well-timed peak with a great pair of skis to take bronze in the 15 k classic, on a challenging wax day. That medal was Heikkinen’s first time on the podium in an international race. Since then, he’d finished in the top three a few times more—twice on the World Cup, and also in a couple of stages of the Tour de...

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Swedish Surprise: Ingemarsdotter, Kalla in Team Sprint

Inge ScheveMarch 1, 2011

While most had expected Hanna Falk to be the number-one pick along with Ida Ingemarsdotter for the Swedish sprint relay team, Charlotte Kalla showed up at the press conference Tuesday morning.

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Emil Joensson (SWE) Returns From the Woods

Inge ScheveMarch 1, 20111

Emil Joensson made a beeline for the border after his sprint race last Thursday. He needed to get away to refocus for the team sprint, and make the days go by faster.

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XC Oregon Opens 2011/12 Athlete Applications

Ben TheyerlMarch 1, 2011

http://www.xcoregon.org. Based on current budget projections and likely retirements by several top athletes, XC Oregon anticipates having the financial resources to support 2-4 new “funded” level athletes interested in racing full 2011/12 regional/national/international schedules. XC Oregon also continues to welcome an unlimited number of “associate” athletes to apply at any time with less stringent racing qualifications and expectations than the funded level. Per the program’s tradition, XC Oregon does not charge fees to any roster athlete...

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Russ. Ski Fed. Pres. Interview: National Team “Absolutely Clean”

Nathaniel HerzMarch 1, 20114

The Russian Ski Federation has been the black sheep of the cross-country ski world over the past five years, with no fewer than 20 of its athletes receiving bans for doping rules violations between 2007 and 2010. In June, former world champion and Olympic medalist Elena Vyalbe became the new president of the federation, as some firm rhetoric came down from on high in the country’s sport structure – one official said that Russia’s culture...

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Bjoergen Skis to Third World Championships Gold as Norway, Finland Pack Top Ten

Chelsea LittleFebruary 28, 2011

Early on in Monday’s 10 k classic individual start race, it looked like Marit Bjoergen was on track to lose her first gold medal of the 2011 World Championships. On the first steep hill of the tough course in Oslo, the Norwegian was slipping – and not long after, she began to get splits telling her that Justyna Kowalcyk of Poland, who had started one spot behind her, was catching up. “Today was a very...

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Sweden Hopes for Revenge in the Classic

Inge ScheveFebruary 28, 20111

Daniel Rickardsson, the Swede who taught everyone a lesson on how to race a 15K classic interval start when he won the 15K by almost a full 30 seconds during the World Cup in Drammen eight days ago, is ready to get even with the Norwegians from Sunday’s pursuit.

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EISA Regionals: Packer and Brennan win double titles for Dartmouth

February 28, 2011

Dartmouth’s Eric Packer and Rosie Brennan took individual titles on the second day of the EISA Regional Championships hosted by Bates in Rumford, Maine. For Packer it was his third straight win and second win of the Championships, and for Brennan it was her first win, helping put their team ahead of UVM in both team scores for the day. An inch or two of snow overnight continued to soften the tracks at Black Mountain...

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Americans Fourth in First Team Comp. in Oslo; Austria Wins

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 28, 2011

Five years ago, a fourth place finish for the Americans in a nordic combined team event at World Championships would have been tough to swallow, since U.S. medals at major competitions had been few and far between. But in the season following the 2010 Olympics, which saw U.S. athletes take three silvers and a gold, collecting the “wooden medal” in their first of two team events in Oslo was merely a mild letdown. “Considering I’m...

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Biathlete Svendsen Cut from Norwegian Relay Lineup

Inge ScheveFebruary 27, 20113

Biathlete Emil Hegle Svendsen had long been considered a shoe-in for the third leg of the 4x10 kilometer relay at the 2011 World Championships in Oslo on Friday. But after the 30K pursuit, Svendsen is shipped off to Siberia stat.

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Shiriaev To Contest 50 K in Oslo, But Without Coach, Tchepalov

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 27, 20111

When the world’s best cross-country skiers stand on the start line for the men’s 50-kilometer freestyle, the final race of the 2011 World Ski Championships in Oslo, they will do so alongside Sergey Shiriaev, a Russian athlete who served a two-year doping ban between 2007 and 2009 and continues to work with controversial coach Anatoly Tchepalov. Tchepalov is currently serving a ban of his own for connections with athletes involved with doping: a four-year sanction...

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