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The Australian race season has kicked into full swing the last couple of weeks with races both at Falls Creek and Perisher Valley. Just when it looked like it was going to be a dud start to the season with a warm autumn and eastern Australia gripped in a 4 year drought, suddenly the weather changed. The cold weather systems came in and most of the major resorts reported good snow falls in late June/...

Source: Langrenn.com Kristen Skjeldal and Tor Arne Hetland won the Norwegian national team’s two first time-trials during their recent on-snow camp at Sognefjellet. Both the Norwegian sprint team and the distance team had good conditions during last week’s camp despite lots of rain. Two on-snow races were held. Here are the results from the sprint race and the classic race. Classic race: 1 Kristen Skjeldal 32,08 2 Espen Harald Bjerke 32,36 3 Tor Arne Hetland...

Norwegian Guro Strom Solli set a new World record in the 100-meter classic in an on-snow race in Kragero, Norway on Saturday. Source: Langrenn.com http://www.langrenn.com/cparticle253779-1743b.html

Austria held it's long-distance National Championships on April 3rd in Bad Gastein, with mass-start freestyle races for men (30km) and women (15km). The 33-year-old World Cup and Olympic veteran Gerhard Urain held off his more celebrated teammate, Olympic medalist Christian Hoffman, to win the 30km mass-start freestyle by just three-tenths of a second. Urain's win was especially significant considering that Hoffman is the only World Cup skier ever to have beaten Norwegian hero Thomas Alsgaard...

Source: Langrenn.com Kine Beate Bjornaas won Sunday’s 30-kilometer classic race at the Norwegian championship ahead of Kristin Murer Stemland and Kristin Stormer Seira. Hilde G. Pedersen was a DNF and Marit Bjorgen a DNS. – I was almost in a class by myself at the end, said gold medal winner Kine Beate Bjornaas after the race. The silver medal winner, Kristin Stemland started 15-seconds behind Bjornaas and caught her early. They skied together for a...

Source: Langrenn.com http://www.langrenn.com/cparticle236947-1743.html Junior skier Petter Northug (nr. 118) is hanging on to Jœrgen Aukland and is being pushed by Audun Laugaland and captured a solid 12.place in his first ever 50 kilometer. Photo: Erland Lundby

Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Alsgaard tags off to Nordic combined skier Kristian Hammer. Photo: Erland Lundby Thomas Alsgaard. Photo: Brynjar Skjærli

A Look Back At The 2005 Colorado International Spring Series presented by Devil’s Thumb Ranch By Mike Trecker Voice of the CISS Ahhhh Spring, what can you say, other than ‘How Sweet it is’? What a fantastic week of fun and racing at Devil’s Thumb Ranch this week we had indeed. I can’t even begin to express the true nature of Spring Series, it has to be experienced first hand to truly understand what it’s...

Riitta-Liisa Lassila won her career's and season's second Finnish Championships title in Vuokatti on Saturday on 30 km free tehnique race. Through the race Lassila had tough battle with silvermedalist Aino-Kaisa Saarinen who ended up losing the gold by 22,7 seconds. Kaisa Varis took the bronze. Virpi Kuitunen didn't race due to flu. Some quotes from top 3: Lassila: “It is my second gold medal and there is never too many individual Finnish Championships medals...

Editor's Note: Using the results posted on the Spring Series website, we erroneously concluded, and reported, that Kris Freeman had won Spring Series. In fact, Ivan Babikov was the overall winner. We apologize for the mistake Kris Freeman finished off Spring Series the same way he started it a week earlier, with a win. But it wasn't enough to get take the Overall title away from Ivan Babikov. Freeman was fourth in the overall coming...

Kirsi Välimaa won her first ever Finnish Championships title in Vuokatti on Saturday on 5 km classic. Välimaa beat Riitta-Liisa Lassila by 13,4 seconds. Marjo Korander took the surprise-bronze and won her first individual medal in Finnish Championships. Virpi Kuitunen didn’t race on Satuday due to flu but she will compete on Sunday on 30 km free technique race. Some quotes from the best 3: Välimaa: ”I had four bronzes and two silvers before, so...

Tero Similä won his first Finnish Championship title on 10 km classical in Vuokatti on Saturday. Jari Isometsä finished 7 seconds behind the winner and Valeri Rodokhlebov took home the bronze medal. From national A-team racers Sami Jauhojärvi end up disappointing to 41. place, Matti Heikkinen did slightly better with 27th place. Some quotes from best 3 athlete: Similä: “The first Finnish Championships title is a great thing and I will always remember this. It...

Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Norwegian skiers dominated the World Cup sprint scene this winter. Here is a chance to see how they did against each other in the Norwegian sprint-relay championship. Ine Wigernes and Ella Gjomle won the women’s sprint relay at the Norwegian championship in Lillehammer on Friday. – I felt that we were in full control during the entire race, said Gjomle after dominating in both the semi-finale and the...

Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Hilde G. Pedersen (40) and her 16-year old daughter Ida captured the bronze medal in the sprint relay at the Norwegian championship last Friday. Her daughters are an important reason why she has decided to continue her skiing carrier. Hilde’s daughter Ida (16) skied a very good race among the seniors and contributed to the family’s bronze medal. Photo: Trond Harald Sand

At the first Spring Series race, last Saturday's pursuit, Martin Koukal put himself in a pretty big hole in the chase for the overall Spring Series title. But he's been been moving up ever since. Koukal finished 9th in the first race, 1:20 behind winner Kris Freeman. But he has won every race since, including Thursday's 10K skate race. Koukal won by 6 seconds over Andrew Johnson, and 12 seconds over Ivan Babikov. The overall...

The Czech Republic's Martin Koukal came out on top after an exciting day of sprint racing at the Colorado International Spring Series at Snow Mountain Ranch. Kris Freeman, who is known as a distance racer and does not race many sprint events, showed for the second day in a row that he can sprint with the best of them, taking second place. Lars Flora was third and Torin Koos, who had the fastest qualifing time...

What a difference a day makes. We went from 50+ degrees and sunshine yesterday afternoon to driving snow this morning for the Salomon Sprints at Snow Mountain Ranch. You can find all the results here: