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Website Launch of U.S. Cross Country Championships (Press Release)

Press Release HOUGHTON, Mich. – Michigan Tech will host the 2020 U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships at the Tech Trails from January 2-7. For all U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships information please...

From Half to Full with Kris Freeman

This is the third story following Kris Freeman as he prepped for his first Ironman triathlon. You can read part 1 here, and part two here. *** The half is now full. In an often over-corporatized scene blazed with...

Quick Wrap from Blink

If you didn't burn your Sunday watching the 2019 Blink Ski Festival re-runs you can still do that here. If you'd rather invest less time, here's a rundown from some of Friday's and Saturday's rollerski racing. (Need a...

Hamilton, Ogden win 2019 NENSA App Gap Challenge

On a bright, hot Saturday, Simi Hamilton (SMS T2/USST) and Katharine Ogden (Dartmouth/SMS T2) won the NENSA App Gap Challenge in Fayston, VT. Hamilton finished the race in 26:10 minutes, 26 seconds shy of Kyle Bratrud’s...

Blink Festival Rollerski Racing Update

Norway’s Blink ski festival began July 31 with a 60-kilometer mass start classic rollerski race in Ålgård city in the Southwest of the country. The point to point race presented rolling terrain, with a major 5 k...

Cross Country Ski FIS World Cup on track for March 2020 Season Finale (Press Release)

Press Release Cross Country Ski FIS World Cup on track for March 2020 Season Finale The Season Finale to be held at the Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park will welcome the world’s best skiers from...

Masters Minds: Life at 71 on Two Artificial Knees: 2019 World Masters

Editor’s note: John Wood is a septuagenarian racer who lives in Eagle River, Alaska, outside of Anchorage. Four years ago he wrote a first-person Masters Mind piece for FasterSkier detailing his return from a full knee...

Alaska Solstice Junior Flyer Camp by Jed Hinkley

As I flagged Josie Johnson and Augie Roepke at midnight on the longest day of the year, a smile came to my face, and I let out a big hoot. I have been around Ski Jumping for over 30 years, but I had never experienced what I...

USCSA: The “Hidden Gem” Pathway for Non-NCAA Collegiate Skiers

Last year, 174 athletes in the male and female U18 categories competed at Junior Nationals in Anchorage, AK. This number represents a small fraction of the cross country skiers throughout the country in that age category. As...

2019 Mt. Marathon Rundown

Regional air quality and higher than normal temperatures have been the story during the run-up to the 2019 Mt. Marathon race. According to a NYT's piece, Anchorage has never recorded an official temperature 90 degrees or...

Sprint and Distance Rollerski Racing from the Sommarland Skifestival in Norway

Notable for the Norwegian names in the field, several Brits, and a lone American, a series of sprint and distance rolllerski races were held this past week in the Telemark region of Norway. Jessie Diggins of the U.S. Ski...

The Worldloppet Cup Comes to an End; Ben Popp Discusses the Results of the Worldloppet Annual General Meeting

On June 17th, an update was posted on the Worldloppet International Ski Federation website following the annual general meeting in Isafjordur, Iceland to announce the end of the FIS Worldloppet Cup series. While skiers will...

IBU Moves Forward on Building Equity

The numbers speak the truth when it comes to leadership in Olympic sport. Let’s take International Technical Officials (ITOs), the people responsible for a range of duties like enforcing rules and race timing protocol...

Paige Elliott and a Paralympic Eye-Opener

This story comes to FasterSkier from Paige Elliott, a lifetime cross-country skier with some wisdom to share after her experience at the 2018 Paralympics. Elliott is based in Durango, Colo. The story is reprinted with...

The Seeds of Collaborative Coaching

Fostering cultural change within complex organizations is painstaking. U.S. Ski & Snowboard is no different. Most often the most effective type of change comes less from edict and more from many a collection of...

IBU Calendar Changes, Prize Money Increases, and Mandatory Athlete Anti-Doping Education (Press Release)

Press Release IBU makes important calendar and sports decisions amid Congress preparations The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has set the dates for the IBU World Championships Biathlon in Pokljuka...

NENSA 2019 Rollerski Race Series (Press Release)

NENSA is proud to introduce their 2019 Rollerski Race Series featuring six events across the eastern region and a renewed supplier partnership with Swenor Rollerskis. The goal of the race series, and...

From World Cups to Triathlons: Kris Freeman’s Diabetes Management and Pushing the Envelope

Kris Freeman manages Diabetes. He did this on the World Cup for years and at four Olympics. He remains a competitor and continues to test himself since retiring from elite level skiing in 2018. "Retired" for Freeman...

First World Cup Competitions Scheduled for Women’s Nordic Combined

While men’s Nordic Combined has been a fixture in the Winter Olympic games since the first contests were held in Chamonix, France in 1924, its female counterpart has not existed. Women’s cross country skiing was added to...

IMHO: The Most Challenging Cross-Country World Cup Courses

At the close of the season, after some striding and skating on some heavy courses, FasterSkier sent out a query to get some athletes' opinions on which course (distance and sprint) was the most difficult? We also asked...