This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. As we enter the second to last event in this year’s Tour de Ski—the 20 kilometer Skiathlon—there has been little movement at the top of the women’s Overall leader board. As the...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. The 2024-2025 Tour de Ski has already been a long, challenging adventure, and the end of the tour (tomorrow atop Alpe Cermis) offers a unique and daunting set of challenges. While Stage 6 of...
Racing was tight on the first day of the U.S. National Championships at Anchorage’s Kincaid Park, with winners in both the men’s and women’s events decided by less than 15 seconds. The real drama, however, was in a quintessential Anchorage wildlife standoff — one that may have even altered the women’s podium. Along a willowy downhill stretch toward the end of the five-kilometer race loop, volunteers and coaches engaged in a tense showdown with a moose...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. The Tour de Ski concludes this weekend with three events remaining: today’s classic sprint, tomorrow’s 20 kilometer skiathlon, and the famous (or infamous…) “Loppunousu” hill climb on Sunday. After the first four grueling...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Today’s sprint marks Stage 5 of the Tour de Ski, one of the final stages leading to the Tour’s culmination this weekend. What sets the Tour apart from any other competition is its...
ANCHORAGE — Kate Oldham wasn’t expecting to win Thursday’s opening race of the U.S. National Championships. It was her first competition of the season, after focusing on training in December, and she’d never placed better seventh at previous national championships. Her coach at Montana State University, Adam St. Pierre, had other ideas about the 22-year-old senior — though he was keeping them to himself. “I have been predicting Kate as a dark horse national champion...
Any New Year resolution worth making will be realistic and rewarding. The S2S as a goal event and season finale can be both of those! Register by January 10th and the deal is even sweeter with a chance to win amazing Swix poles. A few event details: When? April 5 & 6, 2025 Techniques? Classic on April 5; Skate on April 6 Distances? 21km and 40km on both days; Wave starts Where? SilverStar Mountain Resort...
The Tour de Ski is the ultimate test of endurance, pushing athletes to their physical and mental limits, with few other events demanding such frequent back-to-back competitions. Yesterday’s individual start 20 kilometer freestyle competition was a grueling marathon effort, with racers battling for the climb leader position at the 10 kilometer checkpoint while navigating a course that offered little opportunity for recovery. To follow that up today, the challenge continued with a 15 kilometer classic...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. In an earlier age of cross-country skiing, nearly all races were against the clock (not mass start events). One-by-one, skiers disappeared into thick forests, there to battle conditions and strategies and personal demons on...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — or is it? The Tour de Ski has returned, but Devon has some beef with this year’s watered down format. Plus, recaps of the four races we’ve been through so far, including Jessie Diggins sprint win from heat five. Send feedback, hate mail and love letters to devon@fasterskier.com. You can send love letters to nat@fasterskier.com. See you in a couple of days. `
The STIFEL U.S. Cross Country Ski Team announced their coaching and support staff for the World Junior & U23 Championships to be held in Bergamo-Schilpario, Italy (February 3-9, 2025). Cross Country Coaches: Trip Leader & Head Coach: Greta Anderson, US Ski Team Coach: Bryan Fish, US Ski Team Coach: Matt Boobar, Stratton Mountain School Coach: Julia Hayes Cross Country Service Staff: Head of Service: August Teague, Aspen Valley Ski Club Service: Peter...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Mass Start Nordic racing ain’t fair—it just can’t be. The Classic track in Toblach, Italy is only four skiers wide, so many mass-start racers will find themselves off the back as soon as the...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. Today marks the opening round of the 19th edition of the Tour de Ski, and this year it will be an all Italy based event with races in Toblach and Val Di...
The 19th edition of the Tour de Ski is here once again! While many athletes have taken a conservative start to the season, skipping early races to focus on preparations for the World Championships in Trondheim later this winter, the excitement for the Tour remains high. With seven stages packed into just nine days — and rest days on Monday and Thursday — the Tour has historically seen relatively few skiers complete the entire event....
In cross-country skiing, sprinting is a notoriously inconsistent discipline for a single competitor to dominate. The short distance leaves little time for racers to recover from even small mistakes; sharp corners and tight spaces often produce race-ending crashes. Which makes the track record of Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo almost impossible to comprehend. Klæbo, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, has won the last 10 straight sprint races he’s entered on the World Cup — the highest...
Dear Cross Country Community, We are pleased to announce the Team for Period 2 of the 2024-25 World Cup season – the Tour de Ski: 2024-25 Tour de Ski Men John Hagenbuch Objective 24-25 Overall SuperTour Leader Gus Schumacher Objective 9th 24-25 Distance World Cup Ben Ogden Objective 10th 24-24 Sprint World Cup Zanden McMullen Objective 19th 24-25 Distance World Cup Jack Young Objective 24th 24-24 Sprint World Cup JC Schoonmaker Objective 31st 24-24 Sprint...
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. As the collegiate racing season approaches, FasterSkier chatted with Jana Weinberger, Director of Skiing and Head Nordic Coach of the Colorado University Buffaloes. The Boulder-based team returns to racing after a decisive win at NCAAs last season on their home course. FasterSkier: NCAAs...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. As cowbells and horn music echoed through the course, the women’s 20 k classic marked the final competition before athletes enjoy a brief rest ahead of the Tour de Ski later this month....
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. World Cup Nordic skiing can seem like it’s become fairly predictable: the Swedish team dominates the Women’s Sprints, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (NOR) is unbeatable in the Men’s Sprints, and Therese Johaug (NOR)...
This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. With the winter solstice approaching, much of Period 1 racing takes place under the cover of darkness, and tonight was no exception. Stadium lights illuminated the snow-covered tracks while fiery bursts from barrels...