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Best Laid Plans—Sundling Overhauls Norway’s Lead in Team Relay

FasterSkier’s coverage of this week’s FIS World Championships stands as a proud tribute to an icon of American Skiing, Marty Hall who has generously supported our coverage of international cross country ski events. To learn more about Marty and Kathy Hall’s A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, please contact info@fasterskier.com. We’ll miss you, Marty.  In the long history of Women’s Team Relay races in FIS World Championships, Sweden has triumphed only once. Many other times, they...

The “Most Important Race”—Norway Rules Men’s Team Relay

FasterSkier’s coverage of this week’s FIS World Championships stands as a proud tribute to an icon of American Skiing, Marty Hall who has generously supported our coverage of international cross country ski events. To learn more about Marty and Kathy Hall’s A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, please contact info@fasterskier.com. We’ll miss you, Marty.  How wonderful it is that cross country skiing remains an outdoor sport. In old sports newsreels, we can view images of earlier...

Remembering Marty ‘Butch’ Hall

Marty Hall, 87, (known as Butch during his youth) of Laconia, NH passed away after a short illness on February 25, 2025. Though he was born in Pennsylvania, he always considered himself a New Hampshire native. His family (his parents and two sisters, Lee Ann and Linda) moved to Gilford, NH, when he was young, right after WWII. They joined a number of families who started the Gilford Outing Club, resulting eventually in three Olympians (Marty...

Royal Gorge’s Gold Rush is Back!

Event Summary All Information Subject to Change Saturday, March 15 2.5km (Youth), 5km (Junior), 10km (Citizen) Mass Start Classic Ski Races Sunday, March 16 15km, 25km, 50km Mass Start Freestyle Races Weekend Long Nordic Adventure: Terrain Park, Ski Jumps, Ski Pull competition, Demos, Wax Clinics Far West membership strongly suggested REGISTRATION All registration is through Zone4. PLEASE REGISTER HERE *DAY-OF-REGISTRATION IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED AND INCURS A SUBSTANTIAL ADDITIONAL FEE ENTRY FEES Saturday Fools Gold 2.5k,...

‘I’m really looking forward to being inside’: An oral and visual history of Trondheim’s wettest weather in a century

This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers.  If you would like to see more articles like this one, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription.   TRONDHEIM, NORWAY — Chris Grover, the U.S. cross-country ski program’s director, was wearing his backup clothing against the heinous weather Wednesday at the World Championships here. His first set, he said, was still drying. The clothing, he said, was a casualty of a team van...