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(Press Release) Young Nordic Canucks Get First Taste of Olympic Experience in Skiathlon

FasterSkierFebruary 6, 2022

Olivier Léveillé grinds out 31st-place finish on a monster of a course By Chris Dornan on behalf of Nordiq Canada BEIJING, Chn—A trio of Canadian men officially made their Olympic debut in the men’s 30-kilometre skiathlon race on Sunday at the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre near Beijing. The youngest member of the Canadian squad at 20 years of age, Olivier Léveillé (Sherbrooke, Que.), finished just outside the top-30 in the 70-man field, clocking a 31st-place...

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(Press Release) Cendrine Browne Battles to 20th in Epic Olympic Skiathlon

FasterSkierFebruary 5, 2022

Three Canadian women ski into elite group of 30 on grueling race day in Beijing By Chris Dornan on behalf of Nordiq Canada BEIJING, Chn — Cendrine Browne and her teammates set the tone for the Canada’s cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Games after putting down her best-ever Olympic performance, skiing to 20th place in the women’s 15-kilometre skiathlon race on Saturday in Beijing, China. Competing in her second Olympic Games, the 28-year-old from Prévost,...

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Johaug Wins First Individual Olympic Gold; Diggins Leads US in Sixth

Ella HallFebruary 5, 2022

This World Cup coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and the A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage please contact info@fasterskier.com. After a long hiatus from international racing, the top athletes found themselves on the start line once again, ready to contest the first event of the 2022 Winter Olympics. First up,...

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Olympics Preview: About That Final Uphill

Gavin KentchFebruary 4, 2022

Take a moment to visualize some iconic head-to-head finishes from recent global championships: Klæbo vs. Bolshunov in the 50 k, Oberstdorf, 2021; Nilsson vs. Johaug in the relay, Seefeld, 2019; Schumacher vs. Terentev in the relay, Lahti, 2019; Diggins vs. history in, well, you know, PyeongChang, 2018. What do these races have in common, besides drama, high-level skiing, and triumph and tragedy in equal measure? All of them feature a final downhill back into the...

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On the Ground Report: A Beijing Olympic Winter Games Preview

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 4, 2022

ZHANGJIAKOU, CHINA — After months of headlines about coronavirus tests, travel logistics and geopolitics, Beijing’s Olympic cross-country skiing venue, on the eve of its first competition Saturday, has emphatically changed the subject. To the winds of Zhangjiakou. Icy gusts billowed athletes’ training bibs, filled the resort town’s immaculately groomed ski tracks with dry, squeaky powder and generally consumed everyone’s attention Friday — from the team members who shielded their faces with buffs and layers of...

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Canadian Journey to Beijing

Gerry FursethFebruary 4, 2022

Canada was successful in delivering the team to Beijing and getting them on snow in Zhangjiakou. The decision to go above and beyond in isolating athletes before a carefully planned drive to a charter flight worked, although other countries also succeeded with a more laid-back approach. What can fans expect from the Canadian team in Beijing? It all comes down to qualifying and performing. Qualifying Canada had an Olympic quota of four women and three...

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How Do I Watch the Olympic Cross-Country Ski Races?

Gavin KentchFebruary 3, 2022

The Olympics start soon. Really soon. Here’s your one-stop shop to help you figure out what to watch, and when. When are the races? In the late afternoon to evening, if you’re in Zhangjiakou competing in them, in a nod to the lucrative European viewing market. In the late evening the night before, if like half of this year’s U.S. Olympic nordic team you live or train in Alaska. Squarely in the middle of the...

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Olympic Biathlon Schedule & Who and How to Watch

FasterSkierFebruary 3, 2022

Schedule All Times Eastern Standard Time Saturday, February 5th 4:00am EST – Men’s and Women’s Mixed Relay – Zhangjiakou, China Monday, February 7th 4:00am EST – Women’s 15k Individual – Zhangjiakou, China Tuesday, February 8th 3:30am EST – Men’s 20k Individual – Zhangjiakou, China Friday, February 11th 4:00am EST – Women’s 7.5k Sprint – Zhangjiakou, China Saturday, February 12th 4:00am EST – Men’s 10k Sprint – Zhangjiakou, China Sunday, February 13th 4:00am EST – Women’s...

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Nordic Combined and Jumping Schedule & Who and How to Watch

FasterSkierFebruary 3, 2022

The 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games are here! Check below to see event details, schedules and athletes competing, as well as how to watch and support USA Nordic Sport as they compete for Olympic glory in Beijing! Women’s Ski Jumping Women’s Ski Jumping has one medal event at the 2022 Olympics: the Individual Normal Hill competition. The event will be two rounds. Both the first and final rounds are scheduled for Saturday, February 5. Men’s...

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Two-time Olympian Noah Hoffman advises athletes to remain silent at Beijing Olympics

FasterSkierFebruary 2, 2022

Ski & Snowboard Club Vail alumnus is working for Global Athlete to increase athlete-voice By Ryan Sederquist, Vail Daily News January 28, 2022 Two-time Olympian Noah Hoffman’s life is busier now than it ever was during his 10-year U.S. Nordic ski team career. The soon-to-be Brown graduate — he’ll have an economics degree by May — has thrown himself into athlete activism since his retirement in 2018. Hoffman started in the anti-doping world before becoming...

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From the Archives: Norway Beats Italy in Olympic Relay in Soldier Hollow (February 2002)

Gavin KentchFebruary 1, 2022

This humble website went live twenty years ago today. (How long ago was that? Pretty long, judging from this recent Buzzfeed listicle.) As a later retrospective on this site would explain, “FasterSkier was founded in January 2002 by Torbjœrn Karlsen, Cory Smith and Erik Stange. FasterSkier.com was launched on February 1, 2002 and quickly grew to become one of the most trusted sources for Cross-Country skiing information in the United States … .” The ur-articles...

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An Inside Look at the Canadian Olympic Prep Camp

Gerry FursethJanuary 29, 2022

The Canadian Prep Camp in Sovereign Lake and SilverStar, BC prior to the 2022 Beijing Olympics sounds like a nordic skier’s heaven. A two-week ski vacation with 100 kilometres of perfectly groomed snow. A private room above a great coffee shop (pain au chocolate!) and next door to some great beer. January weather just below freezing with enough falling snow to make every day a hardwax day. Two weeks of what locals call superhero snow. A...

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From the Archives: Six Big Problems with the Beijing 2022 Olympic Bid (June 2015)

Gavin KentchJanuary 26, 2022

The following opinion article was originally published on FasterSkier on June 20, 2015. It was written by Chelsea Little, who contributed sterling ski reporting to this site for nearly a decade before ultimately retiring from nordic ski journalism, though not from nordic skiing. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Simon Fraser University outside of Vancouver, B.C., where her research interests focus on community and meta-ecosystem ecology. The article was published roughly...

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(Press Release) Rémi Drolet and Olivia Bouffard added to Beijing 2022 cross-country skiing team

FasterSkierJanuary 22, 2022

CANMORE (January 21, 2022) – Team Canada will now have five women and four men on the cross-country skiing start line as Olivia Bouffard Nesbitt and Rémi Drolet are heading to Beijing for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Bouffard Nesbitt (Morin Heights, Que.) and Drolet (Rossland, B.C.) were the final two athletes nominated by Nordiq Canada to the Canadian Olympic Committee after an additional two quota spots were handed down to Canada by International Ski Federation...

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(Press Release) U.S. Ski & Snowboard Nominates Cross Country Team Roster For Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022

FasterSkierJanuary 20, 2022

PARK CITY, UTAH (January 20, 2022) — U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced today its nominations for the U.S. Olympic Cross Country Team to represent Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 from February 4-19, 2022. Nominations are to be confirmed by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee when it formally announces the U.S. Olympic Team. Fourteen athletes were nominated to Team USA, including the 2018 Olympic gold medalist and defending World Cup overall and...

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Olympics Preview: What We Know About the Courses and Venue

Gavin KentchJanuary 18, 2022

The season’s biggest races start in less than a month at a venue that is by all accounts well-designed, but also has yet to host an official FIS race. Here’s some of what is currently known about the National Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Zhangjiakou, 100-plus miles northwest of Beijing in the Hebei province of China. The Courses The races will be held at altitude. The stadium is located at an elevation of roughly 1,650 meters...

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Sean Doherty Named to Third Olympic Team

FasterSkierJanuary 4, 2022

Sean Doherty (Center Conway, N.H./National Guard Biathlon & USBA) became the fifth biathlete to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. The discretionary selection was announced by the U.S. Biathlon International Competition Committee on Monday following Doherty’s dominating performance in the sprint and pursuit races at the U.S. Biathlon Olympic Trials held in Arber, Germany, Jan. 2-3. “Sean performed really well and kept his focus during two really challenging races,” said U.S. Biathlon Director of High Performance Lowell...

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Olympics Preview: Team Quotas, or, Why as Few as Five American Men Could be Going to Beijing

Gavin KentchDecember 30, 2021

It’s always tough to make the Olympic team. It got tougher this year, due to smaller quotas for all nations interacting with some math that is disadvantageous to the American men. If you just want the executive summary of this article, here it is: The maximum team size, for any nation’s nordic team for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, is eight athletes per gender. If the Games started tomorrow, the Americans would be able to...

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Kendall Gretsch Makes History With Gold Medal in Paratriathlon

Rachel PerkinsOctober 7, 2021

If you didn’t catch the ending of the triathlon during the Tokyo Paralympics, prepare for the chills. Spoiler alert: in an all out, last gas effort in the final meters, dual-season athlete Kendall Gretsch edged out Australia’s Lauren Parker by one second for a Gold Medal victory. This is Gretsch’s third Olympic gold, alongside the two she earned during the 2018 PyeongChang Paralympic Games, first in the 6-kilometer biathlon sitting sprint and again in the...

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2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games Selection Criterion and Athlete Petition Form

Chris GroverAugust 21, 2021

Dear Cross Country Community, You can find the link to the finalized 2022 Beijing Olympic Selection Criterion here: https://usskiandsnowboard.org/sport-programs/criteria/olympic-winter-games-cross-country-criteria Thanks to all of you who provided feedback during the construction of the criteria; your input was very helpful. New this year, any athletes who would like to be considered for a discretionary selection must complete a Petition Form. The form can also be found at the above link, but here...

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