>Karl Saidla races for XC Ottawa Today I got a thorough look at the courses that will be used for the Canmore World Cups. Loosely each loop could be described as climbing a small mountain and then coming back down. I have described them in more detail below. I have also attached some pictures of people training and testing skis today. To get an idea of where the race courses are located, imagine that you...
Julija Tchepalova and Beckie Scott waged a two-woman battle on the trails of Canmore today. Julija, starting last in the 53 person field, earned a small lead early on in the individual start free technique race and managed to hold Beckie off to win by 14 seconds. Everyone else was over a minute behind. Sara Renner finished 12th. Sarah Konrad had the top American finish, scoring World Cup points in 23rd place. Full report coming...
Pietro Piller Cottrer won the 15K free technique race in Canmore today, leading the split times from start to finish. Vincent Vittoz was second, and Tobias Angerer was third. Ivan Babikov, who is skiing for his native Russia, but now lives in Canada, finished a very impressive 4th, narrowly missing a podium spot. George Grey had the top North American finish in 16th. Grey started conservatively and was 41st after 1.6K but he got faster...
Karl Saidla & Megan McTavish skis for XC Ottawa
Photos by Torbjorn Karlsen James Southam Kris Freeman Tore Ruud Hofstad Axel Teichmann Tobias Angerer Carl Swenson Andrew Johnson Teichmann
More excitement: The FIS World Cup continues with the races in Canmore, Canada this week. The first race is the individual start freestyle 10-k for women and 15-k for men on Thursday. The 15 and 30-k classic mass-start races is on Saturday and the classic two-person sprint relay is on Sunday The individual freestyle race: The ultimate test of endurance and technique. As hard as you can go from the first pole plants. No one...
Source: USST Newell Leads Historic U.S. Sprint Finish VERNON, B.C. (Dec. 11) – Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) led three U.S. men into the top 15 Sunday in a World Cup freestyle sprint won by Olympic champion Tor Arne Hetland of Norway while Canadian Beckie Scott won the first World Cup race of her career, capturing the women's sprint with Wendy Wagner (Park City, UT) 21st. Hetland edged Sweden's Bjoern Lind with Ola Vigen Hattestad, another...
Six North-American skiers in the FIS Cross-Country Sprint Red Group for the next calendar period! Based on the excellent North American results from the World Cup Sprint races at Sovereign Lakes in Vernon, BC this past weekend, three Canadian Women and three US Men are now in the top 30 Sprint Cup standing (previously called the Red Group) for the upcoming Period II of the FIS Cross-Country calendar (Dec 30 – Jan 22). Men's Sprint...
Here is the photo-finish picture of Sara Renner and Hilde Pedersen's tie in the Sprint semi-final event at the Sovereign Lake World Cup (both skiers advanced to the A-Final). The photo-finish camera takes 1100 pictures per second(!). As you can tell from teh distortion in the picture, this is not a normal snapshot. The camera only photographs the finish line, making for a very thin sliver exposure. These tiny silvers are appended to each other...
It’s still possible to view clips of the Vernon World Cup events from this weekend’s action on Eurosport. For footage from all the races go to:
Karl Saidla skis for XC Ottaswa – Spectators Chandra Crawford in quarterfinal Chandra in semifinal Men's A Final Andy Newell and Sean Crooks in quarterfinal
Source: Cross Country Canada -Canadian nordic skiers rise to occasion, Sovereign Lake delivers world-class product- Vernon, B.C.-Tired of living out of their suitcases and watching foreign television, Beckie Scott and Sara Renner began a campaign three years ago to bring a World Cup cross-country skiing event to their home country. On Sunday, the Canadian women stepped to the start line of a World Cup on home snow, and three hours later controlled the podium, finishing...
Beckie 1st, Sara 3rd and Chandra 10th in W Cup sprint Source: Cross Country Canada Canada's best ever World Cup day took place in Vernon BC, with 2 medals and a top 10 on the womens side in the sprint event. Beckie Scott captured her first ever World Cup win and Sara Renner her first World Cup medal in a great performance that also saw Chandra Crawford claim her first top 10. Milaine Theriault iwho...
In today's World Cup sprint race at Sovereign Lake, 10 North Americans (6 Canadians and 4 Americans) qualified for the sprint final elimination heats by placing in the top 30. Bjorn Lind (SWE) was the fastest male qualifier, while Manuela Henkel was the fastest female. You can follow the results online in real-time by following this link (races start at 11:30 West Coast time): http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&raceid=9792 Full Men's Qualifying Results
It was thrilling race today at Sovereign Lake with a huge pack of top World Cup skiers battling for 30K in the pursuit race. But in the end, it was all about the Germans. Tobias Angerer won, followed in by teammates Axel Teichmann, Andreas Schluetter, Jens Filbrech, and Rene Sommerfeldt. Ivan Babikov finished 14 and Kris Freeman finished 23rd. It was a very tight and exciting race with all the well-known names at the forefront,...
Norway's superstar Marit Bjorgen was pushed right to the line by Canada's Beckie Scott in today's 2×7.5km World Cup pursuit race held in Vernon, Canada. Beckie was only .3 seconds from winning a World Cup in front of a home crowd, and held off veteran Hilde Pederson of Norway who took third. Canadian Sara Renner also had a great day, finishing 12th. Top U.S. results came from Abigail Larson (37th) and Rebecca Dussault (39th.) Sara...
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World Cup skiers were out in force today, training on the trails of Sovereign Lake in preparation for this weekend's World Cup races. Here are a few photos. Big screeen TV in the stadium
The atmosphere at Sovereign Lake Nordic Ski club was flavoured heavily with anticipation today with sprinklings of excitement and nervousness. As evident from the pictures provided below, the weather was picture perfect with sunshine, an abundance of cold and dry snow and temperatures reaching daytime highs in the area of —5C. Fingers are crossed that things stay roughly the way they are in this regard for the weekend of racing. The day lodge at Sovereign...
Eurosport is reporting that even though Tor Arne Hetland is leading the overall World Cup, France's Vincent Vittoz will be one skier to keep a look out for this weekend. The Frenchman has been inching closer to victory since the beginning of the season – fourth in the 15km classic then second behind Norway's Tore Ruud Hofstad in the 15km Freestyle in Kuusamo, Finland two weeks ago. With four out of five victories already under...