Summit Nordic Ski Club is Hiring
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The Rivers School Seeks Assistant Nordic Coach
FasterSkierSeptember 14, 2017
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Don’t Overfill Your Cup: APU Coach Erik Flora and the Complete Athlete
Gavin KentchSeptember 13, 2017
This week’s featured articles are made possible thanks to the generous support of Masters World Cup 2018. noted following the 2014 Man Camp at Eagle Glacier, “Flora has nailed the grooming. (It helps that he never sleeps.)”) Within a year, Erik’s parents, Sam and Berit Flora, had followed him to Bend. A period of athletic wanderlust and nomadism followed, as Flora fils “kind of bounced around to different places around the West.” There was a...
NTDC Thunder Bay Job Notice: Ski Technician
FasterSkierSeptember 13, 2017
National Team Development Centre Thunder Bay is seeking a Ski Technician for the 2017-2018 Season. This position is a support role in a dynamic high-performance service team committed to delivering international level race service and further develop Canada’s future Olympians. Term: December 2017-March 2018 General Responsibilities: These include but are not limited to the following: Assist in all aspects of competition preparation and race day service Assist athletes with ski selection, general ski preparation, wax...
MBSEF Seeks Assistant Nordic Coach
FasterSkierSeptember 13, 2017
Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation is seeking an Assistant Nordic Coach to lead, motivate, educate and provide direction to athletes/ members of the MBSEF Nordic program and assist the Nordic Director in all facets of the Nordic Program, including Collegiate Programs, Masters Programs, U18/U16 racing programs, Middle School development, and Youth programs. Job Qualifications: The Assistant Coach must have a practical knowledge of current cross-country techniques and training methods, proficiency with wax selection and...
It’s Been a Bad Combo Out West: Wildfire Smoke and Training
Jason AlbertSeptember 12, 2017
This week’s featured articles are made possible thanks to the generous support of Masters World Cup 2018. The Canadian AQI is based on particulate matter 2.5 microns or smaller, but uses a 1-10+ scale with “1” being low health risk and “+” very high.) Gareth Williams, a member of Canada’s national U25 Team and a native of Kelowna, B.C., wrote in an email that the smoke was a near-constant companion this summer. “Summer has been...
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Confidence in Hand, Thompson Gunning for PyeongChang Spot
Chelsea LittleSeptember 11, 2017
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Keep Up With Madshus
Caldwell SportSeptember 9, 2017
We don’t often worry, or even think much, about the layers of ownership involved in the ski industry. But last October, Newell Brands announced that it would be selling off its winter sports holdings following a merger with Jarden, the parent company of K2, and subsequently Madshus. Newell and Jarden are big players in in the consumer products world, accounting for common brands like Rubbermaid, Coleman, and Mr Coffee, to drop a few recognizable names...
“The biggest issue with the ski team is that they do not support athletes through thick and thin. They support the very top athletes well but other than that everyone else is constantly stressed out about re-qualifying for the team or raising enough money to be able to compete that season.” — Tim Kelley, 2015 World Championships U.S. alpine team member, UVM alumnus & assistant coach “It is very hard to watch some American athletes...
Nordic Nation: Back on the Podium with Sweden’s Hanna Falk
Jason AlbertSeptember 7, 2017
Hanna Falk, 28, knows the top spots are tough to get and fleeting. In 2010, her first full year on the World Cup, she burst onto the scene and finished an astounding fifth overall in the final sprint rankings. That early success was hindered by illness. By 2015, Falk rebounded, and this past season finished as the third-ranked sprinter on the World Cup and 20th overall. Falk stuck with it, even with a podium drought that...
Americans Dominate 2017 Merino Muster and Half Marathon
Gabby NaranjaSeptember 6, 2017
Visibility was thin and temperatures were below freezing last Saturday at the Snow Farm. Opaque white clouds of fog swept over the landscape near Wanaka, New Zealand, showcasing a skyline that seemed to play on the country’s largest historical farm industry: sheep. If bluebird skies and sun had greeted competitors in previous years, racers in the 2017 Merino Muster experienced temperatures around -5 degree Celsius (23 Fahrenheit) and a four-meter radius of visible track, then...
Wednesday Workout: Mindfulness with Heidi Widmer
FasterSkierSeptember 6, 2017
Swiss-Canadian skier Heidi Widmer found herself on a tough stretch of road, she recently ended up taking several weeks off training. “When I had a concussion (both in the fall of 2010 and again in 2013), I listened to mindfulness videos on YouTube,” Widmer wrote in an email. “Those were stressful and uncertain times for me, because I didn’t know what was causing my symptoms nor how to get better. The videos helped guide a...
Closing the Gap: Testsamling (Testing Camp)
FasterSkierSeptember 4, 2017
Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth post in a series proposed by Maks Zechel, a 19-year-old Canadian cross-country skier embarking on his first season training abroad. He recently made the big move to Norway, where he’ll be training and racing with Team Asker for the next nine months. Through these updates, Maks hopes to share his personal “observations, stories, and lessons learned” to help close the gap between North American and Scandinavian nordic skiing. Previous...
Havlick Wins 2017 Australian Hoppet; Rose Repeats in Second
Gabby NaranjaSeptember 1, 2017
When Australian Phillip Bellingham lunged for the finish line in the men’s 2017 Kangaroo Hoppet a week ago on Saturday, Aug. 26, in Falls Creek, Victoria, it wasn’t his fellow Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation (SVSEF) Gold Team in 2016, Havlick enrolled at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, to obtain a master’s degree in exercise physiology (he received an undergraduate degree in exercise physiology from the University of Utah...
Why 18 Months? Inside the Johaug Decision
Gavin KentchAugust 31, 2017
As separately addressed the factual question of what happened that led to Johaug testing positive for the steroid clostebol. That article did not consider the question of why 18 months was the suspension chosen. This piece tries to fill in that gap, by exploring the legal analysis of the CAS decision and the principles that the court applied in reaching this decision. This analysis begins by looking at how criminal sentencing usually works, then applies...
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Grand Prix Continues: Bryan Fletcher 15th in Tschagguns, Taylor Fletcher Wears Red Bib (Updated)
Jason AlbertAugust 30, 2017
After during a provisional competition round (PCR). Beyond the top-tier competition, the Summer Grand Prix offers the opportunity for athletes to test equipment and experience how new rules are enforced. One of the key rules has to do with suit permeability. “I got DQ’d in the first PCR because my suit didn’t pass enough air,” Fetcher wrote in an email. “I wasn’t trying to cheat, but actually it was very warm and I was sweating...
Ann-Cathrin Uhl will be a senior at the University of Anchorage Fairbanks (UAF) this year, but for the summer she was back in her native Germany as usual. Uhl made her first trip to NCAA Skiing Championships last season, finishing 30th and 34th at the races in Jackson, N.H. But she has long been a contributor to the UAF Nanooks effort both on the ski trails and as a cross-country runner. This summer, a group...