Sunny skies and warm October weather greeted race organizers and skiers for the Mt. Kearsarge Rollerski Time Trail Series up in Warner, New Hampshire. Organizers suffered a slight setback as fallen trees block the road halfway up the mountain, which forced them to move the start down the road for a 2.4 mile climb. Skiers were invited to use either skate or classic techniques to scale the eight percent average grades. The series is hosted...
November 16, 2010 (Ottawa, ON) – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) advises athletes and support personnel that supplements containing the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine are widely available in the Canadian market and have been the source of many doping violations worldwide over the last year. On the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2010 and 2011 Prohibited Lists, methylhexaneamine (dimethylpentylamine) is listed as a stimulant, prohibited in-competition. Recently, nine Australian athletes tested positive for methylhexaneamine...
Monday, 15th November, marked the 100-days-to-go milestone for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo (NOR), Norwegian Minister of Culture Anniken Huitfeldt and Åsne Havnelid, CEO of Oslo 2011, celebrated the occasion at the World Championships Pavilion in downtown Oslo with an update on the great volunteer efforts that will be supporting the current team of Oslo 2011 during the event. Altogether there will be 2’200 volunteers that will be offering their help. The...
Norwegian biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is getting a ticket to the World Cup opener in Gällivare, and will join the Norwegian team at the first cross-country competitions of the season in Sweden. “We seriously consider all athletes. It’s not age that counts, but if they are fast enough. We have good cooperation between biathlon and cross-country skiing” explained sports chief Åge Skinstad. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has already made to the top in Gällivare. In...
The Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) has been fined €50,000. The decision has been respected by the CEO of the RBU and First Vice-President of the International Biathlon Union (IBU), Mr Sergey Kushchenko, who also finds it correct that the IBU is taking tough measures in the fight against doping. The Executive Board of the IBU had to decide at its 99th meeting in Going (Austria) the disciplinary consequences for the RBU; the IBU Anti-Doping Rules...
Alexander Legkov stormed into the new racing season with sensational first place in the Norwegian national opener in Beitostoelen. He led the Russian trio that filled the podium of the 15 k freestyle race. However, Legkov does not overvalue his success, and he realizes that road to Oslo 2011 is still long. Q: Alexander, congratulations to your victory! You won with a great time gap. Did you expect such a season start? Alexander Legkov: Absolutely...
Marit Bjorgen told NRK this morning and confirmed it at the press conference later in the day. – I woke up this morning and felt “icky”and “low energy,” so it was decided that I should sit out today’s workout, “Marit Bjorgen said to NRK. At the press conference, she explained that it’s not a full-blown illness. – I’m not really sick, just feel a little icky. I take no chances. I’d rather sit out now...
–Norwegian superstar Petter Northug has put on a waxing clinic for the media in advance of this weekend’s racing—they’re probably hoping to avoid what happened last year after the first race of the Olympics, where the press blamed the team’s wax staff for destroying the men’s medal hopes. –According to the Swedish site Langd.se, one of the coaches suspended by the Russian Ski Association in response to repeated anti-doping rules violations
The popular Norwegian ski marathon, Birkebeinerrennet, was sold out in a record time of 18 minutes after the registration went online last week. The organizers had reserved a total of 16,000 start bibs and all of them were snapped up in just 18 minutes. The Birkebeinerrennet will take place on 19th March 2011. Never before has the race has been sold out so fast. The sharp increase in interest is even more dramatic looking back...
Right to Play, a FIS Partner and a humanitarian organization whose mission is to help disadvantaged children around the world, is celebrating its 10 years’ programming anniversary during the month of November 2010. In 2000, Right To Play went from a fundraising body to an implementing organization that runs programs for children living in some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. In the past 10 years, it has grown from a collection of 15 people...
Only 51 days remain until the start of the 5th Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear. The preparations for the unique event are at full speed and by the preliminary entry deadline at the end of October, 22 nations have registered for this year’s edition. Besides many traditional Cross-Country nations such as all Nordic and Central European countries, Australia and Japan have also announced their participation in the Tour for the first...
In just 15 weeks, the focus of the entire masters XC ski world will return to North America as the 2011 Sparkling Hill Masters World Cup pays a long-awaited visit to Sovereign Lake/Silver Star, British Columbia — March 3-11. With such an exciting focal point for the ski year, master skiers throughout the U.S. are buzzing with anticipation even before the snow starts falling. One of the true XC ski gems in all the world, Sovereign...
Astrid Jacobsen (NOR), sprint world champion in 2007 in Sapporo has a difficult period behind her with several injuries in the past couple of years. Now she seems to be on the right track for Oslo 2011. For the 23-year-old Norwegian, the upcoming World Championships in Oslo will be something special as it is her real home championships – she lives in Oslo. On her Road to Oslo 2011, Astrid Jacobsen took some time and...
With just a few weeks at home in the county we are yet again preparing for travel, this time to Canmore, Alberta where the senior athletes have trials races for the December World Cups and IBU races. For the rest of the team it will serve as some solid on-snow (hopefully) training before heading to Minnesota in December for our first Nor-Am Cup races of the ’10-’11 season. October took us to Midway, Utah for...
Take a 12-mile ferry ride from Rockland, Maine to North Haven Island at the end of October, and you might find yourself watching the Maine Winter Sports Center’s (MWSC) annual Lobster Roll rollerskiing race. The perfect roads and low traffic, “make for one of the most scenic rollerskiing experiences possible,” according to Andy Shepard, President of the MWSC. On October 30, athletes from MWSC, Bates, Colby, Bowdoin, UMO, UMPI, along with other individuals, undertook the...
Since taking the job as the head coach of the Canadian National Ski Team (CNST), Justin Wadsworth has been a man living out of a suitcase. Upon returning to Canmore from the team’s latest camp, a three week stint in Park City, Utah, Wadsworth hadn’t even managed to unpack yet. Despite the heavy schedule, Wadsworth remained upbeat and enthusiastic – “that’s just what you gotta do,” he said in a recent interview with FasterSkier. According...
This trip marks one of the premier steps of the elite athlete and coach development pipeline in the U.S. The U.S. Ski Team is pleased to announce the 2011 staff: Matt Whitcomb, Trip Leader, Junior Head Coach U.S. Ski Team Bryan Fish, U23 Head Coach, U.S. Ski Team Randy Gibbs, Head Service, U.S. Ski Team Andrew Johnson, Service, University of Vermont Casey Fagerquist, Service, Alaska Pacific University Justin Beckwith, Service, Green Mountain Valley School Amy...
The J1 Scandinavia Championship Trip is a fixed piece of the elite athlete and coach development pipeline in the U.S. having been in place as an organized trip for over ten years. Most U.S. Ski Team and many World Junior Team athletes participated in this trip in the past. The U.S. Ski Team is pleased to announce the 2011 staff: Matthew Johnson, Head Coach Burke Mountain Academy Peter Leonard, Head Serviceman FXC – Nordic Ski...
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From 22nd to 24th October, FIS organized a seminar for FIS Cross- Country Technical Delegates of OPA countries in Ramsau. More than sixty participants from eleven nations gathered to update their knowledge of competition rules and event organization. Participants from traditional OPA alpine countries were accompanied by representatives of Great Britain, Japan, Mongolia and Romania. Four candidates for Technical Delegate passed the exam successfully and many new participants were registered as candidates. On Saturday evening,...