Interviews

** Editors note: This will be a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com. Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small...

Event : CC Men's Pursuit 15km C + 15km F Venue: Shirahatayama Stadium Number of spectators: 1,910 Number of participants(nations/areas) 89/39 1st rank : Axel TEICHMANN (GER) “It’s a great day for me. We had awesome skis — we probably had the best skis in the field. The team was pretty strong and we controlled the field sometimes, so it was the strength of our team that gave us the chance for the double victory...

Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen of Norway won the women’s sprint at Sapporo Worlds on Thursday. She is still a junior and looking forward to Junior Worlds!

** Editors note: This will be a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com. Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small...

The International Biathlon Union is giving people a chance to “chat” with Tim Burke on their website: Wednesday, Feb 7th, 19:00 CET. http://www.biathlonworld.com/eng/news/page_000055_654.htm Chat With Tim Burke Burke celebrated his 25th birthday on Saturday and has had a breakthrough winter so far. He scored World Cup points in ten races so far, finishing in the top ten three time. After his seventh rank in the World Championship Individual, Burke now ranks 22nd in the World...

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com . Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small paragraph...

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com . Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small paragraph...

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small paragraph describing...

Former Norwegian national team skier Kristen Skjeldal disagrees with the complaints regarding the steepness and length of the finale uphill in the last stage of Tour de Ski. — This is the future for cross country skiing, says the veteran.

Editors note: This will be a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com . Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small...

Following the inaugural Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear, FIS Newsflash had an opportunity to ask the so-called ‘Fathers of the Tour,’ Vegard Ulvang, Chairman of the FIS Cross-Country Committee, and Jürg Capol, FIS Race Director Cross-Country, about their initial impressions. FIS Newsflash: Despite a lot of planning and preparation, the premiere edition of the Tour de Ski was a big question mark in many aspects. Are you pleased with how it...

Tour de Ski: Norway’s cross country sportchief, Ã…ge Skinstad had to again answer questions from the Norwegian media after the pursuit race regarding the quality of the Norwegian skiers skis (kick and glide). He is now tired of the focus on bad skis.

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com. Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small paragraph describing...

Olympic Biathlete Tim Burke marked the first two weeks of the 2006-07 Biathlon World Cup season with thrilling performances and outstanding results. The Paul Smiths, New York native had a 10th place finish in the Sprint Format and a strong relay performance that tagged the US Biathlon Team off in fifth position, just 21.7 seconds off the lead. I caught up with Tim in Fort Kent, Maine after he returned to the US and was...

Eldar Rœnning feels that it’s easier to repeat success than to create it, and believes that this could be one of the reasons why he has won two 15-kilometer classic World Cup races in a row and is the current World Cup leader. – I’m in the zone at the moment. Some has been a little luck, but mostly it’s (a result of) hard work over a long period, says the current men’s World Cup...

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com. Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a fewl paragraphs describing...

Torin Koos is a member of the National A Team for the United States. A World Cup, World Championship and Olympic competitor, Koos brings this experience to the FasterSkier sportscasting arena for the 2006/2007 season. Equipment: Rossignol Skis, Boots and Bindings, Toko gloves and wax, Marwe, Exel poles, Rudy Project Eyewear, Powerbar Home Ski Club: Leavenworth Winter Sports Club ( www.usapears.com ) Best Western Icicle Inn ( www.biosports.net )

At the time of this interview (December 13, 2006), Marshall Greene, originally a native of Spokane, Washington, was sitting fourth on the Supertour Overall Points list. A 2004 Graduate of Middlebury College, Greene moved to Bend, OR after college to join the XC Oregon program. He answered questions for fasterskier.com / middleburyskiing.org.

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com . Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small paragraph...

Editors note: This is a weekly column highlighting our ski coaches from around the country… including elite coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, volunteer coaches, and learn-to-ski coaches. This is an effort to sample a diverse group of coaches and recognize the people who are the backbone of today’s skiers. If you would like to nominate a coach for an interview, please email robertwhitney99@hotmail.com. Please give coach’s name, email, phone, and a small paragraph describing...