World Cup

Beautiful, sunny and warm late summer days in the city of Sapporo greeted the participants to the Final Inspection for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships just 5 months — or 163 days to be precise – before the event gets underway. A significant milestone for the FIS Nordic Disciplines, this will be the first time the championships will be staged in Japan and Asia.* Two days of technical inspections together with the host broadcaster...

Less than four months remain until the start of the FIS Tour de Ski 2006/2007 on December 29th, 2006. During the past week and a half, a team of Tour Board members led by FIS Race Director Cross-Country Jürg Capol visited all the future Tour sites to discuss the status of the preparations with the local organizing committees and to iron out the final logistical details. “I was pleased to see how well the inaugural...

The Norwegian sprint team is for the fourth year in a row splitting their September camp between one week with skiing in Ramsau and one week with dryland training in Livigno. – Two week of skiing is too long for us at this point. I believe it’s good for us to do a week of dryland training after one week with skiing in Ramsau. We believe in this plan, it works for us, says Norwegian...

The New Tour de Ski is competitions that are valued high among Swedish national team skiers. The One million Swedish kronor (US $140,000) first price for the overall win is especially tempting. Anders Sodergren is ranking the Tour in a class with Worlds and has decided upon his strategy for how to win. – I want to be among the top in all the long races and just show up without ambitions for the sprint...

Tobias Angerer of Germany and Norwegian Marit Björgen are the favorites to win this winters World Cup according to some oddsmakers. Beckie Scott is despite her retirement listed as the second favorite. The season is three month away, but it’s already possible to bet on who will win this upcoming season’s World Cup. Last years winner of the men’s trophy, Tobias Angerer is again the favorite to win the title as the World’s ski king...

The International Skifederation (FIS) and Vegard Ulvang (photo) want to involve pit-stops in certain competitions.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) considered dropping the mass-start in the longest events at championships. That won’t happen. Source: Langrenn.com FasterSkier.com wrote about this subject on May 23: Scandinavia Wants To Bag 50-K Mass-start Olympic 50K, photo: Sharbel Dussault

Vilamoura, 25th May, 2006/ — At its meeting in the 45th International Ski Congress today, the FIS Council elected the organizers of the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2010 and the 2011 FIS Alpine, Nordic and Freestyle World Championships. The appointed organizers are: 2010 FIS Ski Flying World Championships: Planica (SLO) 2011 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships: Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships: Oslo (NOR) 2011 FIS Snowboard World Championships: La Molina (SPA)...

Vilamoura, May 24th, 2006 — The 45th International Ski Congress is currently underway in Vilamoura (POR). In addition to setting

The Viessmann FIS World Cup Calendar Cross-Country for the Season 2006/2007 "VIESSMANN" FIS WORLD CUP CROSS-COUNTRY 2006/07 Date Day Site Nation Ladies Men Remarks Period I 28.10. Sat Düsseldorf GER Sprint F Sprint F 29.10. Sun Düsseldorf GER Team Sprint F Team Sprint F 18.11. Sat Gällivare SWE 10 km F 15 km F 19.11. Sun Gällivare SWE 4x5 km 4x10 km 25.11. Sat Kuusamo FIN Sprint C Sprint C Nordic Opening 26.11. Sun Kuusamo...

The Scandinavian countries have agreed that they want to get rid of the 50-k mass-start race. Central European countries are however fine with this new race format. Source: Skidsport.com Representatives from the Worlds ski federations are meeting for the FIS conference in Vilamoura, Portugal. The 50-k mass-start is one of the most important issues on the agenda. – I’m hoping for individual start 50-k already in this winter’s Worlds in Sapporo, says Swedish national team...

The JOSKA crystal globe trophy is known world-wide as the most valuable prize in the FIS Cross-Country, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Alpine Skiing, Freestyle and Snowboard World Cups. Produced by JOSKA Kristall headquartered in Bodenmais (GER), the FIS World Cup trophy is a unique prize produced for the exclusive use of FIS and reserved for a single purpose: honoring the best athletes in a FIS World Cup discipline. In addition to the design, the uniqueness...

Interview with Peter Petricek (SLO) Prior to the 2006 FIS Congress in Vilamoura, the FIS Newsflash had a chance to ask Peter Petricek (SLO), Chairman of the FIS Cross-Country Committee, about his thoughts on the sport and its future. FIS Newsflash: The FIS Tour de Ski promises to be the biggest change in the 2006-2007 Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country calendar. What do you think of this new concept? Peter Petricek: I have always been...

With the start of the FIS Tour de Ski 2006-2007 just 251 days away, the detailed planning and organization are coming to full speed. Representatives of the Tour’s three hosting National Ski Associations (Czech Republic, Germany, and Italy), local organizing committees from Nove Mesto (CZE), Oberstdorf (GER), Asiago and Val di Fiemme (both ITA), and FIS met in Munich on Friday, 21st April, 2006 for a detailed status review. The agenda included thorough discussions and...

Source: Langrenn.com There is no secret that FIS wants skiers who can do well in both sprint and distance events. Competition director Jurg Capol is therefore toying with new ideas that might make it more attractive for skiers to train for both sprint and distance racing. Combi-Competition weekends means that racers will get World Cup points for the combined ranking of a sprint and a distance race in the same weekend says Capol in an...

Source: Langrenn.com FIS newest effort to stimulate the World Cup racers to race as many World Cup races as possible is to emphasize more time for training and recovery by frequently including World Cup-free weekends. FIS is hoping that they this way will get the best racers to participate in all the races. There are two weekends with World Cup races in November, then one weekend without. In December there are two weekends with races,...

Source: Langrenn.com Gabriella Paruzzi won her first medal in the 1991 Worlds in Val di Fiemme. That was silver in the women’s 4 x 5-kilometer relay. She ended her racing career with another medal in the 2006 Torino Olympics. She has been among the biggest profiles in cross country skiing. Her best performance was gold in the 30-kilometer classic in the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. She won the overall World Cup in 2003/04. She has...

Oberhofen, 24th March, 2006/ — Following a meeting by the FIS Finance Commission, the FIS TOUR DE SKI 2006-2007 has now been confirmed to take place as part of the Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country from 29th December, 2006, to 7th January, 2007, two months before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo, Japan. Set to become an annual highlight within the Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country, the FIS TOUR DE SKI will include...

Sapporo, Japan — Canada’s Beckie Scott finished the 2005-06 World Cup season the way she began it last November in Canada — stepping onto the podium in a World Cup pursuit race. Only this time it was gold in Sapporo, Japan on Sunday. Canada’s most decorated cross-country skier capped off a stellar campaign with her fourth gold medal of the season after crossing the line in the women’s pursuit race with a time of 45...

Source: FIS press release The 31-year-old Beckie Scott is the winner of the last women's Pursuit Cross-Country World Cup race at the FIS Nordic Pre-World Ski Championships in Sapporo. The athlete from Canada finished the course 1,8 seconds ahead of Kristin Steira from Norway. The third place took the German Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle, 29,9 seconds behind Scott. Scott's opponent for the World Cup trophy, Marit Bjoergen (Norway) finished fourth and repeat with that result her overall...