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Perfect weather prevailed for the day on this tough course that climbed for 95% of the distance, up over 1000 vertical feet. There was no place to hide or rest. The mass start race started out with a 200m double pole section. Andrew Johnson led the pack with a powerful V2 up the first section of the course. At the 2k point the pack was cruising on a 5% uphill grade at 16.5 mph, on...

From the Durango Herald… Elliott joins Wells at worlds Team USA selects five Durango cyclists for World Championships August 9, 2007 By Aaron Unterreiner | Herald Sports Writer Short of 20 years of age, Tad Elliott isn't short on experience. Less than four months removed from representing his country at the Junior World Cross Country Ski Championships in Travisio, Italy, the 19-year-old Durango prodigy again will represent his country at the 2007 UCI Mountain Bike...

The fist competition from the IBU International Summer Biathlon Roller-Ski Cup was held last week from August 3 to August 5, in Duszniki Zdroy, Poland. Krystina Palka (POL) took home the victory in the women's 7.5km sprint, 23 and 51 seconds ahead of Magdalena Gwizdon (POL) and Janka Gerakova (SVK) respectively. In the junior division, German prodigy Voigt Lisa skied away from the competition. Her time of 21:30 would have been good for third in...

Anders Aukland has a strong track running background. He has, however, only put his spikeshoes on a few times over the last six to seven years. But he will participate in the Norwegian track and field championship this weekend, ten years after he captured gold in the 10 000 meter and twelve years after he captured gold in the 5000 meter. Hasn’t decided which distance he’ll race – This is very good training that benefits...

Püttlingen, Osrblie, Duszniki Zdroy: You are not alone! For the second year in succession, the Norwegian southwest coastal city of Sandnes gathered more than ten thousand spectators for a festival of winter sports in summertime. Norwegian TV showed live rollerski biathlon for three hours during prime-time! German Püttlingen is said to be the only town to close for winter sports in the summer. But Sandnes, with “big brother” Stavanger a few kilometers away, closed the...

The Norwegian siblings Tora and Lars Berger will be at the starting line on August 12, in Puettlingen for the third City-Biathlon race of the summer. 27-year-old Lars is a two-time World Champion in cross-country skiing. He took gold in the 15km freestyle and the 4x10km relay in Sapporo, Japan at last year's World Championships. He has also won two silver medals at the Biathlon World Championships in his career. Lars will be accompanied by...

APUNSC skiers Lars Flora and Taz Mannix both won their respective divisions in the 4th rollerski race of the summer in Anchorage on Saturday August 4th. Cloudy and drizzly weather dominated the skies, but not enough to keep 42 hardy souls from conquering the classical mass start race which ends with a brutal 2 mile uphill finish on Potter Valley Road in south Anchorage. Lars beat out James Southam, while Max Treinen outsprinted his younger...

Petter Northug ran to a dominating victory in the 10-kilometer long Inderœylœpet in Norway on Sunday, only a few days after he had ended a penicillin cure following a serious cold. The course was far from easy and Petter’s time was 35 minutes. — Ten kilometers in relatively tough rolling terrain for a body as heavy as mine is hard. It went better than I thought, so this was positive. I achieved what I was...

Brayton Osgood, ranked 15th nationally in cross-country won the challenging 13.3 mile run in a time of 1:57:14, 42 seconds ahead of Ashland's Hal Koerner, one of the top ultra marathoners in the country. Fellow XC Oregon member, Zach Violett took third, with coach JD Downing a strong 9th and cross-country sprint specialist Colin Mahood in 13th. In the women's race, Evelyn Dong, ranked 14th nationally, took the title with a time of 2:17, good...

Norwegian national team camp report: Eldar Rœnning won the 3000 meter track race Saturday morning. The start of the 25 kilometer mass-start rollerski race was only 1.5 hours later. Rœnning was again the fastest. – Eldar got away in a downhill section at the end of the rollerski race. That’s very impressive after running a very strong 3000 meter on the track only a couple hours earlier that day, says coach Vidar Lœfshus. Petter Northug...

Oroslavje, Croatia It is less than a month before the beginning of the FIS Rollerski World Championship in Croatia. Jürg Capol, cross-country race director for FIS and Pierre Teyssot, technical delegate of the World Championships visited Oroslavje to meet with organizers and to check the race tracks and overall organization. They shared their impressions with Croatian journalists in a press conference. Mr. Capol and Mr. Teyssot stated they were satisfied with the tracks and the...

Saarland state in Southwest Germany has never been known as a haven for winter sports. Still, the world biathlon elite will gather in Püttlingen this summer for the third time, when the 3rd City Biathlon on August 12 attracts many world champions and Olympic medalists. The 1.5 km circular course goes straight through the city center, and the athletes will compete on roller-skis. This event is the only one of its kind in the world:...

In the annual FIS Roller Skiing World Cup, three stages with distance and sprint races have already taken place in the last two months, beginning with races in Piglio in Italy, followed by Villard de Lars in France and Markkleeberg/Leipzig (GER). The Italian Roller Skiing team led by the men’s 2006 overall Roller Skiing World Cup winner Alfio Di Gregorio, the strong Russian team with the current men’s overall leader Igor Glushkov and the 22nd-year-old...

We are posting these results only to provide a clearer lens into the US Ski Team. While we feel it is important to be able to ski relatively fast in the summer months, we take little stock in these results as roller ski speeds differ greatly. Far above results, what is more important is that 12 of the USA’s best women knocked heads for two weeks at a training camp, making huge technical and fitness...

Friday’s downtown Sandnes race was 7.8 kilometer for women and 11.7 for men. Marit Bjœrgen won the women’s race in an event that included several sprint laps where the three skiers at the tail-end of each lap were pulled from the race. Fun and spectator friendly were some of the comments. Øystein Pettersen won the men’s race. Pettersen and Marit Bjœrgen also won Saturday’s sprint races Marit Bjœrgen won both the semifinal and the finale...

– The first lap was very easy but Kristine Eikrem Engeset surged on the second lap and only Polina Jelizarova and Karoline Bjerkeli Grœvdal were able to keep up. Karoline Bjerkeli Grœvdal took the lead with 800 meters to go and kept it all the across the finish line. Her time was a strong 9.44.35. Kristine Eikrem Engeset was second in 9.47.35. Background article: Source: Langrenn.com

Kris Freeman(25:07) and Ilke Van Genechten (36:26) finished first place in their respective fields in the first of the NENSA Summer Rollerski Series races in New Durham NH. Optimal weather and a fantastic course lined by over 200 spectators made for a great kick off of this series. New England’s top skiers raced on matched V2 850 skate skis generously donated by V2/Jenex. Andrew Johnson finished second in a time of 26:54, followed by Samuel...

Cross Country skier third at U-18 Track & Field Worlds Karoline Bjerkeli Grœvdal of Norway captured bronze in the 2000 meter steeple chase during U-18 Track and Field championship.

New Gloucester, ME, July 16. Doug Hoover (Williamsburg, PA) won all three men’s competitions this weekend at the North American and US Summer Biathlon National Championships in Fort Kent. The 35-year old Hoover easily won the Sprint, Pursuit, and Mass Start competitions at the Maine Winter Sports Center in Fort Kent, from fields that featured many junior and youth competitors. As one of the most experienced competitors in the field, he was the favorite when...