Kris Freeman About Last Season, Training Adjustments And The Upcoming World Cup and Olympics In Torino The 2004-05 World Cup season did not go as Kris Freeman had hoped for. The World Championships in Germany were disappointing, but he still managed to show glimpses of his potential in post Worlds races and signaled that better things are yet to come. His training is going well; he is feeling good and seems ready to challenge the...
Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Things did not go Kristen Skjeldal’s way at World’s last season. He was left out of the 15-kilometer and 4 x 10-kilometer relay squad despite being best Norwegian and capturing fourth place, only 1 second from third in the last World Cup skate race before Worlds. Skjeldal skied solid at Worlds when he got the chance and captured seventh in both the pursuit and the 50-kilometer classic, only...
Interview: George Grey And Devon Kershaw Are Definitely Getting Ready For The Olympics Canadians George Grey and Devon Kershaw raced to a surprising sixth place, the best Canadian men’s relay performance ever, in the sprint relay at Worlds last season. We asked them about Worlds, their training, the upcoming Olympics and December World Cup races in Canada. They are definitely putting in the time and possibly getting ready for more surprises. Background articles: Sprint Relays...
Junior World Champion Northug: – What’s Inside My Head Is What’s Important For Me In Getting Better From Here On Junior World Champion Petter Northug is finishing up high school this year and has moved in to a cabin next to the ski trails to optimize his training conditions. He has changed schools from Steinkjer to Meraker and feels very good about his new training environment. Source: Langrenn.com
Marit Bjorgen has got expert help in pulling in some very good personal sponsor deals following last winters great results. Source: Langrenn.com
Making the Olympic team is not Lars Flora’s main goal — the dream about skiing to a top result in Torino is what motivates him to put in a combination of high volume and solid interval training. We asked him some questions. www.skipost.com What was your best race last season? What do you consider your best race ever? – Last year I was in great shape early in the season. My best international race occurred...
She is pulling down 95 kilo in the pull-down exercise and has a liter uptake above 5 — It’s not out of the question that Astrid Jakobsen (18) fights for gold at junior Worlds this winter, says Norwegian junior national team Jon Arne Schjetne. Source: Langrenn.com The eighteen year old surprised a lot of people when she captured silver in the sprint at the Norwegian senior National Championship, only beaten by Marit Bjorgen last winter....
I’m giving it all in order to make the Torino Olympic team, says Ine Wigernaes (36) Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen
To find an elite cross-country skier you should always ask their Mum. In the conversations that I have had with the mothers of top athletes I have found one thing in common that was obvious from early childhood- an unremitting focus. Sheila Sim, the mother of Ben Sim, Australia’s new rising star in the world of cross-country skiing, says that he had in spadefuls from when he was young. This can been seen recently when...
Source: Langrenn.com Mini-series with focus on the Norwegian longdistanceteam: Profile of three member of the longdistance team. Their training and philosophies. Anders Hallingstad want to step up and become one of Worlds best longdistance skiers. Everything Looks Good Hallingstad (28) had decided that he was going to make the podium in The FIS Marathon Cup last winter, but that dream became impossible when he got Mono and his body didn’t function. The 28-year old has...
Frode Estil’s training is going well and he is in good shape. He believes that he is on track to do well in Torino. He is making small but important training adjustments and says that his Olympic recipe can be compared to cake baking. Source: Langrenn.com
Norwegian biathlon skier Kari Henneseid Eie (23) has made huge progress the last couple seasons. She has improved by several minutes in skiing and is 800% stronger!
Karl Johnson is responsible for the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center’s perfect snow grooming and year round trail work, at Maine’s largest nordic center, in Carrabassett Valley, ME. Rarely seen, because he spends most of his waking hours behind the stick of every winter sport enthusiast’s favorite snow grooming equipment, and, when we skiers are awake, his dry Maine humor often floors even the most dehydrated athlete. Karl always has a unique perspective on what we do...
The following interview took place with Andrea Henkel at her home in Oberhof, Germany. Rick Halling, Nordic Director for Atomic USA, conducted the interview over the phone. Andrea was a three time Gold Medalist at the Junior World Championships and she has become an internationally competitive senior on the German Biathlon Team. She won Gold Medals in the 15 km and the Relay at the 2002 Olympics and she continued her success into last year’s...
HOW HAS YOUR TRAINING BEEN GOING? My training has been going very well this year. I am training more conservatively than I did last year but i am still putting up fairly high volume and average two intensity sessions a week. I trained 75 hours in May and 80 hours in June. WHAT ARE YOU DOING DIFFERENTLY THIS YEAR THAN IN THE PAST? I have gone back to the program that I was on for...
Norwegian cross country sport chief Bjornar Hakensmoen wants fewer nations in cross country skiing. He hopes that this will increase the quality of the sport. Source: Langrenn.com
Norwegian cross country sport chief Bjornar Hakensmoen want the sport to utilize today’s competition forms better. He wants more weight put on good course profiles and the width of the tracks, especially in mass-start events. Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen
We met with three-time Olympian and numerous times World master cross-country ski champion Jon Engen (48) at the US masters cycling championship. What motivates him and why does he compete in cycling? Jon Engen is a three-time Olympian in cross country skiing and biathlon, numerous times masters World Champion and still gives even the youngest and fittest age categories a tough time on the marathon circuit where he consistently places top ten overall. We met...
Two-time speed-skating Olympian (1960 and 1964) and former World master champion in cross country skiing Richard (Dick) Hunt from Bend, Oregon captured second in the individual 20-kilometer time-trial at the US Master Cycling Championship in Park City, Utah on Monday. By Torbjorn Karlsen Masters nationals is a part of the Nationals Park City Cycling festival. The time-trial race was held on Antelope Island in the middle of Salt Lake outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Dick,...
Dorcas Wonsavage sat down with Luke Bodensteiner to discuss the role of NENSA, and USSA & USST in making our skiers 'Best in the World'. *Note: Luke reviewed the article and has clarified key points that I missed. His comments are included here, now, in italics. Park City, UT (June 27*): After a phenomenal and inspiring set of seasons from our U.S. Ski Team athletes, last season's results were disappointing- for everyone involved. And...