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The cream of the crop. The best in the world compete all winter long on the World Cup. We follow them at every stop with article and results. We also post occasional reports from North America’s best as they travel the globe.
Approaching Final Season, Randall Looks Forward
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Approaching Final Season, Randall Looks Forward

Gavin KentchSeptember 29, 2017

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Kikkan Randall is approaching a season full of lasts: her final season as a full-time athlete, her final season on the World Cup, and, she hopes, her fifth and final Olympics. Her main focus these days is resolutely on the future, but she took some time earlier this month to speak with FasterSkier about her summer training and what comes next. Summer training Randall’s final summer of training was anchored by the same...

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Canada’s Olympic Cross Country Team: Who’s In, Who’s Close, and What Comes Next
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Canada’s Olympic Cross Country Team: Who’s In, Who’s Close, and What Comes Next

Chelsea LittleSeptember 21, 2017

As athletes enter their final preparations for the Olympic season, some Canadian cross-country skiers have a pretty good idea that they’ll be heading to PyeongChang, South Korea, in February to compete. That’s because they have already achieved explained in a separate article.) So the list of athletes meeting “Alternate Qualifying Criteria A” could grow. “We have men that have top-30 World Cup sprints, so they could do it,” Holland said. “But I don’t expect on...

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Navigating Depth-of-Field at the PyeongChang World Cup for Canadian Olympic Qualification
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Navigating Depth-of-Field at the PyeongChang World Cup for Canadian Olympic Qualification

Chelsea LittleSeptember 21, 2017

As Cross Country Canada (CCC) looks at which athletes have made progress on CCC’s criteria, these results won’t count towards nomination to the Olympic team. “In order to maintain equity and fairness in this selection process, the HPC reserves the right to exclude, or to count only partially, the results of any World Cup event with a weak depth of field,” the criteria state. “The CCC Selection Committee will be charged with evaluating the depth...

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Nordic Nation: Back on the Podium with Sweden’s Hanna Falk
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Nordic Nation: Back on the Podium with Sweden’s Hanna Falk

Jason AlbertSeptember 7, 2017

Hanna Falk, 28, knows the top spots are tough to get and fleeting. In 2010, her first full year on the World Cup, she burst onto the scene and finished an astounding fifth overall in the final sprint rankings. That early success was hindered by illness. By 2015, Falk rebounded, and this past season finished as the third-ranked sprinter on the World Cup and 20th overall. Falk stuck with it, even with a podium drought that...

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Why 18 Months? Inside the Johaug Decision
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Why 18 Months? Inside the Johaug Decision

Gavin KentchAugust 31, 2017

As separately addressed the factual question of what happened that led to Johaug testing positive for the steroid clostebol. That article did not consider the question of why 18 months was the suspension chosen. This piece tries to fill in that gap, by exploring the legal analysis of the CAS decision and the principles that the court applied in reaching this decision. This analysis begins by looking at how criminal sentencing usually works, then applies...

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Johaug Will Miss Olympics As CAS Increases Ban to 18 Months
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Johaug Will Miss Olympics As CAS Increases Ban to 18 Months

Chelsea LittleAugust 22, 2017

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has made its decision in the case of Norwegian cross-country skier Therese Johaug: “Ms Johaug is suspended for a period of 18 months commencing on 18 October 2016.” That means that Johaug, a seven-time World Champion and a member of the Norwegian gold-medal relay team at the 2010 Olympics, will not be competing at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The full text of the CAS decision...

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Summer Success for Sundby, Wins First Race of Blink Festival
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Summer Success for Sundby, Wins First Race of Blink Festival

Gabby NaranjaJuly 27, 2017

Stands crowded with 50,000 cheering spectators. Bibbed athletes clad in shorts and T-shirts clicking by on rollerskis. Competitors representing various countries dousing themselves with bottled water as they cross the finish line. These were among the sights and sounds of the world’s largest summer rollerski-race series, Norway’sjust 10 women.  Slind took the win in a time of 2:20:04.2, while fellow Norwegian Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes claimed second, 2:11.1 minutes back. Belarus’s Yulia Tikhonova completed the women’s...

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Germany’s 2010 Team Sprint Silver Medalist, Tscharnke Retires
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Germany’s 2010 Team Sprint Silver Medalist, Tscharnke Retires

Harald ZimmerJuly 17, 2017

At the conclusion of last season in late March, German cross-country national team member Tim Tscharnke still Norwegian gold-medal duo of Petter Northug and Øystein Pettersen. At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Tscharnke and teammate Hannes Dotzler nearly took another medal in the team sprint, winning their semifinal and leading a three-person group in the final, before Tscharnke

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FIS on Allowing Suspended Russian Skiers to Rejoin National Team: It’s ‘Special Circumstances’
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FIS on Allowing Suspended Russian Skiers to Rejoin National Team: It’s ‘Special Circumstances’

Chelsea LittleJune 2, 2017

In part of the media storm following the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s response to an appeal by six Russian cross-country skiers, Russian Ski Federation President Elena Valbe announcing the suspensions on Dec. 22, 2016. In cases without a positive drug test, sports federations are allowed to implement an “optional provisional suspension”. This is what FIS put in place on the six Russian skiers, whose samples were allegedly tampered with at the 2014 Olympics. Fussek said...

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CAS Gives FIS Until October to Bring Doping Case Against Russian Skiers
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CAS Gives FIS Until October to Bring Doping Case Against Russian Skiers

Chelsea LittleMay 29, 2017

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) did one thing that the Russian skiers wanted: they issued a decision of some sort quickly, far more quickly than is typical in doping appeals. Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexey Petukhov, Evgenia Shapovalova, Julia Ivanova, and Evgeniy Belov han independent investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. In the six months since the provisional suspensions were enacted, FIS has not formally brought Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ARDV’s) against the six...

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Russian Skiers Appear Before Court of Arbitration for Sport
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Russian Skiers Appear Before Court of Arbitration for Sport

Chelsea LittleMay 16, 2017

On Monday, Russian cross-country skiers appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to protest their provisional suspension by the International Ski Federation (FIS). “The hearings were held for five hours, during which we actively discussed all the legal and factual subtleties,” Christoph Wieschemann – the lawyer for Alexander Legkov and Evgeny Belov – In late December, 2016, FIS suspended Legkov, Belov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexei Petukhov, Julia Ivanova, and Evgenia Shapovalova. The suspensions were...

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Olsson, Jauhojärvi, Bauer Retire, Among Others
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Olsson, Jauhojärvi, Bauer Retire, Among Others

FasterSkierApril 25, 2017

Coming off the 2016/2017 season and less than a year out from the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, several international cross-country skiers and biathletes have announced their retirements. Among them are Sweden’s Johan Olsson, Finland’s Sami Jauhojärvi and the Czech Republic’s Lukáš Bauer, all of which earned medals at Olympics and/or World Championships. Sami Jauhojärvi Earlier this month, Jauhojärvi, 35, told InsideTheGames. “By training I could be pushing my limits for a few more...

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FasterSkier’s 2017 Performances of the Year
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FasterSkier’s 2017 Performances of the Year

FasterSkierApril 15, 2017

This is it — the final award in our 2016/2017 awards series. Votes stemmed from the FS staff, scattered across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and while not scientific, they’re intended to reflect a broader sense of the season in review. This honor goes to outstanding North American performances of the year across various nordic sports. Previous categories: Collegiate | U.S. Continental | Biathletes | U.S. Breakthroughs | International | won the 20-kilometer individual at 2017 IBU World Championships, it was by about a slim margin as he...

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FasterSkier’s Cross-Country Skiers of the Year: Alex Harvey & Jessie Diggins
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FasterSkier’s Cross-Country Skiers of the Year: Alex Harvey & Jessie Diggins

FasterSkierApril 13, 2017

With the 2016/2017 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is excited to unveil its annual award winners for this past winter. Votes stem from the FS staff, scattered across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and while not scientific, they are intended to reflect a broader sense of the season in review. This honor goes to two outstanding North American skiers of the year.  Previous categories: Collegiate | U.S. Continental | Biathletes | U.S. Breakthroughs | International *** Alex Harvey and Jessie Diggins are FasterSkier’s North...

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FasterSkier’s International Skiers of the Year: Sergey Ustiugov & Marit Bjørgen
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FasterSkier’s International Skiers of the Year: Sergey Ustiugov & Marit Bjørgen

FasterSkierApril 13, 2017

With the 2016/2017 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is excited to unveil its annual award winners for this past winter. Votes stem from the FS staff, scattered across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and while not scientific, they are intended to reflect a broader sense of the season in review. This honor goes to outstanding international skiers of the year. Previous categories: Collegiate | U.S. Continental | Biathletes | U.S. Breakthroughs | he won his first Tour...

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FasterSkier’s Canadian Continental Skiers of the Year: Evan Palmer-Charrette and Katherine Stewart-Jones
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FasterSkier’s Canadian Continental Skiers of the Year: Evan Palmer-Charrette and Katherine Stewart-Jones

FasterSkierApril 5, 2017

With the 2016/2017 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is excited to unveil its annual award winners for this past winter. Votes stem from the FS staff, scattered across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and while not scientific, they are intended to reflect a broader sense of the season in review. This set of honors goes to outstanding Canadian skiers competing primarily, but not exclusively, at the Continental Cup level.  *** Katherine Stewart-Jones, U25 National team/NTDC Thunder Bay/Nakkertok...

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South of the Equator: World Cup Skiing Comes to Thailand
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South of the Equator: World Cup Skiing Comes to Thailand

Peter MindeApril 1, 2017

With Kuusamo’s sudden cancellation of the season-opening Ruka Triple in November, FIS formally announced a schedule change for the start of the 2017/2018 World Cup season. The season’s first event will be a mini tour in Thailand. Yup, Thailand. A dedicated committee of ski enthusiasts recently committed to organizing a three-stage mini tour on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, in late November 2017. “I bought a Snow Factory in 2015. At first, we thought people would be interested...

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