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World Cup Prize Money and the Distribution of Wealth

If you’ve read the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) website in the last few weeks and deviated from exploring the cross-country sub-site, U.S. alpine star Mikaela Shiffrin has been...

Biathlete of the Year

Biathlete of the Year With the 2018/2019 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is running a series of articles highlighting some of the players and performances from the season. This honor goes to the...

Junior Skier of the Year

Junior Skier of the Year With the 2018/2019 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is running a series of articles highlighting some of the players and performances from the season. This year, the...

Breakthrough Skier of the Year

With the 2018/2019 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is running a series of articles highlighting some of the players and performances from the season. This year, the breakthrough skier is Rosie...

International Skiers of the Year

Lowell Bailey and the High Performance Vision

For years under the leadership of Bernd Eisenbichler and Per Nilsson, US Biathlon was a polyglot enterprise. It’s often claimed the high performance staff at USBA had a decidedly United Nations vibe. As a sport firmly...

FasterSkier’s 2018/2019 Cross-Country Skiers of the Year

With the 2018/2019 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is running a series of articles highlighting some of the players and performances from the season. This honor goes to two outstanding North...

Race to the Outhouse #2 Ushers in Spring Skiing Season

ARCHANGEL ROAD, above Palmer, Alaska — The tenth annual Race to the Outhouse #2, held amidst the Talkeetna Mountains on April 6, marked a neat bookend to the 2018/2019 race season in southcentral Alaska, and possibly...

U.S. Biathlon National Teams Named for 2019-20 Season (Press Release)

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Bernd Eisenbichler and his US Biathlon Legacy

“Twenty years and two months ago I began with US Biathlon,” Bernd Eisenbichler said to FasterSkier last week during a phone call to discuss his March 31, resignation as high performance director. For those of you...

2018/2019 SuperTour: Over and Out

Over and out on the SuperTour. The season-long series of races running from December in West Yellowstone, Montana to SuperTour finals in Presque Isle, Maine have concluded . Eighteen competitions in total with points...

SuperTour Finals Distance National Championship Race Rundown

US Ski & Snowboard SuperTour Finals Presque Isles, Maine 30k/50k Mass Start Freestyle Tuesday marked the last day of SuperTour Finals and with it, the women raced a 30-kilometer mass start freestyle. Sadie...

USBA National Championship Super Sprint Rundown

USBA National Championships Jericho, Vermont 5 k Super Sprint Link to John Lazenby's USBA National Championships gallery. On Sunday at the US Biathlon National Championships in Jericho, Vermont both the men and...

APU 1 Takes the 4 x 5 k Mixed Relay Bragging Rights

Sunday was the day. The day of all days when SuperTour Finals in Presque Isles, Maine witnessed the fastest 4 x 5-kilometer mixed relay team in the land. Over the last four years of the mixed relay competition at the...

USBA National Championship Pursuit Rundown

USBA National Championships Jericho, Vermont 12.5 k/10 k pursuit On Saturday, Sean Doherty (USBA) won the 12.5-kilometer pursuit in 34:19.1. Doherty shot 1+2+1+2 in taking the win. He began in bib 2, 5.8 seconds behind...

Race Rundown: A Pair of Bjornsen Wins at Super Tour Finals 10/15 k Mass Start Classic

Super Tour Finals continued in the north woods of Presque Isle, ME with the first of the men's and women's distance events. Icy conditions caused a delay in racing and left fast classic tracks at the Nordic Heritage Center....

USBA National Championship Sprint Rundown

USBA National Championship Jericho, Vermont 10 k/7.5 k sprint Friday, in the women's 7.5-kilometer sprint at the USBA National Championships Susan Dunklee (CGRP/USBA) missed two targets in prone and one in standing to...

Race Rundown: SuperTour Finals 1.4 k Freestyle Sprint from Presque Isle, Maine (Updated with Sprint Bracket)

U.S. Ski and Snowboard SuperTour Finals Presque Isle, Maine 1.4 k Freestyle Sprint Women's overall results. The women's final was won by the day's fastest qualifier (see qualification results below) Sadie...

Québec City: Notes, Quotes, and Gallery

The World Cup season wrapped up with World Cup finals in Québec City and FasterSkier was there. Three photographers and three interviewers worked together to gather information from 150 racers, including 56 North...

Bailey and Burke Named to New Positions at US Biathlon (Press Release)

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