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Understudies Fill Team Sprint Spotlight in Cogne

John TeafordJanuary 31, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. It was a day for hard-working backup players to show what they can do . . . A few weeks from now, the World Championships in Trondheim, Norway will include a Team Sprint, an...

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Enga-dang: Three days of racing mayhem and a special, tree-planting guest

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 27, 2025

We’re back to recap a long weekend in glorious Switzerland, with some familiar names topping the podium but still doing it in exciting fashion. Plus, hear from Canada’s Sonjaa Schmidt about her star-is-born moment in the sprint and her, shall we say, unconventional summer training. Fan mail to devon@fasterskier.com; hate mail to nat@fasterskier.com. We’ll be back soon.

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Slind Accelerates to Effortless Victory as Sanness Earns First World Cup Podium in Engadin 20 k

Kennedy LangeJanuary 26, 2025

Skiers competed in a point-to-point race today, a rarity on the World Cup circuit these days as races favor small stadium loops, with better spectating and easier logistics for the host venue. The first 9 k of the race traversed flat terrain following the frozen lake of St. Moritz. Around the halfway point, skiers entered the World Cup stadium, completing three laps of a 3.7-kilometer course before crossing the finish line. This Sunday’s competition may...

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Klaebo Leads Six-Deep Norwegian Sweep in Engadin 20 k Mass Start

John TeafordJanuary 26, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. We feel like we know what World Cup skiing looks like—then FIS schedules a Mass Start race that begins in St. Moritz, and we watch a pack of racers V2-Alternate across the opening kilometers...

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Sundling Wins Engadin Freestyle Sprints. Diggins Breaks Pole in Finals, Finishes Sixth

Ken RothJanuary 25, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Today’s Freestyle Sprint in Engadin, Switzerland was an opportunity for Jessie Diggins to expand her lead in the chase for the Overall leader’s position in the World Cup. Entering today’s race—held at...

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The Boys are Back—Klaebo Schools Anger in Engadin Freestyle Sprint

John TeafordJanuary 25, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. You just can’t believe how fast . . . when skiers at the front of a World Cup Sprint field hit the gas, the top end speed they reach is simply astounding—fast enough that...

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Swedish Surge Continues in Engadin’s Mixed Relay

John TeafordJanuary 24, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Right now, Sweden is on a roll. Soon, Norway will be back at full-force. The top of the field is definitely getting ready for a World Championship showdown in a few weeks. In the...

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Sweden’s World Cup Weekend! Poromaa Swipes Les Rousses 20 k

John TeafordJanuary 19, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Les Rousses’ 20 k Mass Start would be a race conducted without the usual pace-makers. The Norwegian team had mostly stayed home for their own championships, and the Russian team was voted off the...

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Karlsson Dominates Les Rousses 20 K Classic. Diggins Sidelined by Injury. Brennan Out Indefinitely

Ken RothJanuary 19, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. The timing of the Norwegian national championships has already had a dramatic effect on world cup races in Les Rousses, France. Today’s women’s 20 kilometer Classic mass start race would not be...

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Skistad Returns to Win Les Rousses Classic Sprint

Ken RothJanuary 18, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Sprinting has the most unpredictable action of any World Cup racing format. Skiers are crammed into a narrow patch of snow, leading to skis crossing and poles breaking. Wobbly legs often misfire,...

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Edvin Anger Powers to Les Rousses Sprint Win, Schoonmaker Fifth

John TeafordJanuary 18, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Straight after his victory in yesterday’s Norwegian National Championships, Even Northug (NOR) hopped on a plane and showed up in Les Rousses, France in time to contest his Sprint qualifier (in which he advanced...

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Le Rousses 10 k Freestyle—This Is Jessie’s Race

John TeafordJanuary 17, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. When Jessie Diggins (USA) first stepped onto the World Cup scene (as a fresh-faced Minnesota school kid straight out of Junior Nationals), her only real chances to excel were in Freestyle Sprints or 5...

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Incroyable! Ogden’s Distance Podium in Le Rousses

John TeafordJanuary 17, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Following a two-week break after the exhausting Tour de Ski, the FIS World Cup tour reignited in Les Rousses, France just down valley from the extreme-sports Mecca of Chamonix. Ironically, a number of the...

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US Ski Team Announce the World Cup Team for Period 3

Chris GroverJanuary 9, 2025

Dear Cross Country Community, We are pleased to announce the Team for Period 3 of the 2024-25 World Cup season: Les Rousses 10 km F Men John Hagenbuch Objective 24-25 Overall SuperTour Leader Gus Schumacher Objective 12th World Cup Distance Standings Zanden McMullen Objective 21st World Cup Distance Standings Ben Ogden Objective 30th World Cup Distance Standings Walker Hall Discretion 2nd American US Nationals 10 km F Luke Jager Discretion 3rd American US Nationals...

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The Devon Kershaw Show: The Tour is over. Time for some risotto, and a nap.

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 7, 2025

We’ve reached the summit of the Alpe Cermis. The Tour de Ski has concluded. Nat needed a break after covering U.S. Nationals, so Jess Cockney jumps on to guest co-host with Devon. Send us your feedback at devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com. We’ll be back soon.

Feature News Racing Tour de Ski World Cup

Johaug Wins Alpe Cermis and Tour. Diggins Third Overall

Ken RothJanuary 5, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Today marked the end of the journey on the long and hilly road that is the Tour de Ski. All that remained is one of the more daunting challenges in cross-country ski...

Feature News Racing Tour de Ski World Cup

Kreuger Flies up Alpe Cermis, Klaebo Wins Tour de Ski

John TeafordJanuary 5, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo doesn’t like this hill . . . he’s a sprinter, after all: he powers up short, punchy hills on his way to shrug-punctuated finish lines. That’s the way World Cups are...

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Johaug Dominates 20-k Skiathlon. Diggins Fifth and Back on Overall Podium

Ken RothJanuary 4, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. As we enter the second to last event in this year’s Tour de Ski—the 20 kilometer Skiathlon—there has been little movement at the top of the women’s Overall leader board. As the...

Feature News Racing Tour de Ski World Cup

Klaebo Controls 20 k Skiathlon

John TeafordJanuary 4, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. The 2024-2025 Tour de Ski has already been a long, challenging adventure, and the end of the tour (tomorrow atop Alpe Cermis) offers a unique and daunting set of challenges. While Stage 6 of...

Feature News Racing Tour de Ski World Cup

Faehndrich Tactically Wins Tour de Ski Stage 5, Diggins Racing on Injured Foot

Kennedy LangeJanuary 3, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and 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. The Tour de Ski concludes this weekend with three events remaining: today’s classic sprint, tomorrow’s 20 kilometer skiathlon, and the famous (or infamous…) “Loppunousu” hill climb on Sunday. After the first four grueling...

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