The Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) is now accepting applications for the 2011-2012 training year. Space will be limited, but we hope to be able to add a few new members to the team. Applications will be due by April 1st and decisions will be made by May 1 at the latest. The Craftsbury Green Racing Project has enjoyed another successful campaign, with a member earning spots on the Senior and U23 Worlds teams, another...
Marty Hall (MH)– Hi Dave, it’s been 9 months since your departure from the Canadian National Team, what’s been happening with you and your career—bring us up to speed? Dave Wood (DW)—In the spring I began working with the Black Jack Ski Club in Rossland, BC. The program here has younger skiers ages 13 to 17, all in high school. We have an ideal natural environment for Cross country skiers in Rossland. Most of the...
OSLO, Norway – Austria’s Daniela Iraschko emerged through the heavy fog and wind to take the gold medal in the second World Championships ever to allow women to compete in ski jumping. Italy’s Elena Runggaldier captured silver and France’s Coline Mattel took the bronze. It wasn’t the bluebird day that elite women ski jumpers and their supporters from around the world had hoped for at the World Championships. Jumpers said they could barely see their coaches...
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo will feature one of the most comprehensive anti-doping programs at a major international sports event following the Olympic Winter Games. In addition to in-competition testing after all competitions, the program includes a significant out-of-competition testing program, implemented in conjunction with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Similar programs were already executed prior to the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships since 2003 and the Olympic Winter Games in...
Health problems related to smoke and pollution in the ski waxing rooms have attracted increased attention in recent years. Leading researchers in this field come from Sweden and Norway. Invited by Inggard Lereim, head of medical and anti-doping for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Oslo 2011, these researchers presented their latest results for doctors, head coaches and leaders of the team service teams in a special research seminar on the topic held in Holmenkollen...
OSLO, Norway – Steel grey skies greeted jumpers once again Thursday in the final day of training before the women’s ski jump at the 2011 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships. American Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) will seek to defend the title she won in the 2009 debut of the event, while the IOC watches closely to take a final look before a hopeful decision for inclusion in 2014. A field of 43 jumpers from...
OSLO, Norway – The USA’s women’s ski jumpers played around with the wind Wednesday in a training round on the Midstubakken 106-meter jump at Holmenkollen. On Friday, American Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) will seek to defend her title, starting with four other teammates in the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Oslo. Winds on the normal hill jump were tricky Wednesday. Van had the longest ride for the Americans at 97.5 meters on her...
On the eve of the official opening of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo (NOR), FIS together with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the holder of the TV and marketing rights, EBU’s sales partner Tridem Sports and the Local Organizing Committee, announced that the winter’s Nordic highlight event is sold out from the sponsoring perspective. Viessmann (www.viessmann.com), a long-time supporter of winter sports, has joined the esteemed group of ten main partners...
Demong Designs in partnership with the US Ski Team, the Olympic Regional Development Authority and the Lake Placid CVB unveiled an auction fundraiser for the Empire State Games today in Lake Placid, New York. The venue and trail design firm sought a way to support the Empire State Games, which played an important role in the athletic development of partners Cheney-Seymour and Olympic Champion Bill Demong. “When we heard the Empire State Games were in...
February 18, 2011 USA Ski Jumping (USASJ) and Lagunitas Brewing Co. have announced that the California-based brewery will become the official malt beverage of USA Ski Jumping, beginning immediately and continuing through the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The four-year, six figure agreement gives Lagunitas the rights to domestic event presence, co-branded apparel and product, and use of the USASJ logo in digital and social media outlets. Lagunitas, a Sonoma County, CA brewery,...
The last World Cup weekend before the World Championships takes place only a few kilometers away from the famous Holmenkollen. Harbor town of Drammen will welcome World’s best Cross-Country athletes for the first time at Konnerud, which lies only 6 km from downtown. Drammen has hosted seven World Cup sprints downtown and for the first time will organize a full weekend program. Men will start on Saturday in 15 km Classic and ladies will fight...
February 17, 2011 – The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) announced the 12 recipients of the WISE Fund grants, each valued at $900. The Women in Sport Encouragement (WISE) Fund was created to help finance sport initiatives and assist members of the sport community in Canada. The annual grant is primarily to support women leaders develop and organizations that are currently offering or creating sport programs targeted...
PARK CITY, Utah – Five members of the Visa Women’s Ski Jumping Team will compete Friday, Feb. 25, in the 2011 Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo, Norway — which marks only the second time in history that women have been allowed to jump at Worlds. As for the IOC pending decision, “Honestly, if the IOC is looking for a good competition in Oslo, I think our sport is going to be just fine,” Van said....
News and information from the northern hemisphere over the Australian summer Four Australian athletes will compete in the World Cup in Drammen in Norway this weekend February 19-20. Ben Sim, Callum Watson and Mark van der Ploeg will compete in the 15km Classic on Saturday and the Sprint Freestyle on Sunday, while Esther Bottomley will race only the Sprint. In the last World Cup competition that Sim contested in Norway he took World Cup points, however in...
The National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation has partnered with the US Ski Team to fully fund all U. S. Cross Country athletes who represent the U.S. at the 2011 World Nordic Ski Championships. Dave Knoop, NCCSEF director, states “The World Championships are the premier Nordic competition outside of the Olympics. We wanted to make sure each athlete who qualifies for the Championships could focus on their preparation for the games and not worry about covering...
Seeley Lake, MT – Olympian and Nordic ski trail designer John Morton of Morton Trails was recently in Seeley Lake to assess the potential of Seeley Lake’s Nordic trails. Morton Trails teamed with local firm CTA Architects and Engineers and was selected through a competitive bidding process to perform a Nordic events and training center feasibility study for Seeley Lake. The team was selected by Seeley Lake’s Nordic Challenge Steering Committee, a group representing various...
Ski Classics experienced a Fair Play incident in yesterdays König Ludwig Lauf on which Ski Classics will take action. During the last kilometer in König Ludwig Lauf, the athletes Sandra Hansson and Seraina Boner, had an intense fight for the leading position in the women class. These so-called fights are a part of cross-country skiing ,however, in this particular fight Sandra Hansson clearly blocked Seraina Boner on several occasions in an unfair way. It is stated...
Stowe, VT — Despite and evening of crazy winter weather that included thunder and lightning at Trapp Family Lodge, morning arrived to greet racers to another day of great skiing on the 5K race loop at Trapp Family Lodge host to today’s TD Bank Eastern Cup events. Today’s contests included 5, 10, and 15 kilometer classic races. The day started with the J2 Boys 5K. Mount Mansfield Nordic’s Ben Hegman (Huntington, VT) earned the first...
The Swedish based long distance ski team, Team Exspirit, is the leader of the Ski Classics team competition after the third Ski Classics event this season König Ludwig Lauf. Oskar finished on the third place after Jerry Ahrlin, Team Xtra Personell and Stanislav Rezac, Team Patria Direct. Svärd also won the two Ski Classics Sprints in König Ludwig Lauf gaining 10 extra points for the Ski Classics Champion Race, which he now leads with 257...
