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Ribom Dominates Oestersund Classic Sprint, Brennan and Diggins Fourth and Fifth

John TeafordDecember 9, 2023

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. While much of North America continues to wait for skiable snow, Europe and Scandinavia are enjoying prime, early-winter conditions. Oestersund, Sweden had excellent conditions on its World Cup sprint track, though freshly falling snow...

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Life on the Podium: Rosie Brennan Has Earned It

Ken RothDecember 8, 2023

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. Fine wines improve with age: so, too, Rosie Brennan. The 35 year old Alaskan has had one of her best starts to a World Cup season, a stark contrast to last year when she...

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The Devon Kershaw Show: She’s second in the world right now. Rosie Brennan joins us.

Nathaniel HerzDecember 7, 2023

American skier Rosie Brennan is second in the World Cup standings right now, after a double podium in the season’s first weekend of racing. She’s a veteran with numerous podiums to her name and top-fives at championship events. Brennan joins us from Sweden to talk about her hot start to the season. Check out our past coverage of Brennan’s career here. Reach us at devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com. We’ll be back after this weekend’s races.

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The Devon Kershaw Show: Recapping a frigid weekend in Gallivare

Nathaniel HerzDecember 4, 2023

More smashing results from U.S. women, boring-on-paper but fun-to-watch racing from the Norwegian men’s distance team and some interlopers wearing similar colors, and a poorly-attended relay. Devon and Nat break it all down. Keep the feedback and questions coming: nat@fasterskier.com and devon@fasterskier.com. We’ll see you next week.

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U.S. Takes Third in Women’s Relay

Ken RothDecember 3, 2023

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. On Sunday morning in Gallivare, Sweden the World Cup moved on to the women’s 4 x 7.5 kilometer Relay. Even casual fans of nordic skiing know what that means: stakes will be a little...

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Norway Dominates 4 x 7.5 k Relay, USA Finishes Best-Ever Fifth

John TeafordDecember 3, 2023

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 farthest north of any FIS World Cup destination, Gallivare, Sweden offered another frigid morning of steaming breath and squeaking snow for World Cup teams lining up for the Men’s 4 x 7.5 k...

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Diggins Reigns at Gallivare 10 k Freestyle

Ben TheyerlDecember 2, 2023

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. Gallivare, Sweden marks the outer limit of the World Cup circuit. The latitude: as northern as it gets. The course: as “unrelentingly technical” as it gets. The weather: at 5℉ (-15℃) this morning, about...

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Schumacher 16th in World Cup 10 k as Norway Sweeps Podium

Ken RothDecember 2, 2023

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, the FIS World Cup moved to Gallivare, Sweden where a rolling course hosted the 10 kilometer interval start races. In the men’s race, the headline story was the absence of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo...

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The Devon Kershaw Show: U.S. rocks Ruka as 2024 season kicks off

Nathaniel HerzNovember 26, 2023

Damn. What a weekend for the U.S. Ski Team, with three podiums in three days of racing at the World Cup opener in Finland. Erik Bråten, a Norwegian who coaches the Swiss ski team, joins Devon and Nat to recap and share his experiences across a range of international ski cultures. Send us questions, feedback and anti-vax screeds to: devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com — we’ve already got some questions stacking up for a mailbag episode in...

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Epic Day in Ruka. Diggins Second, Brennan Third in 20 k Freestyle

Ken RothNovember 26, 2023

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. Learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award—or about supporting FasterSkier coverage—by contacting info@fasterskier.com. It was an epic day of racing in Ruka, Finland where the women closed out their racing with the 20 kilometer mass start freestyle. The American squad was hoping that Jessie Diggins could repeat the magic she displayed in Davos, Switzerland...

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Norway’s Jan Thomas Jenssen Wins in First World Cup Start in Three Years

Ben TheyerlNovember 26, 2023

Jan Thomas Jenssen (NOR) hadn’t been entered in a World Cup race since 2020. On Sunday in Ruka, the highlight to Jenssen’s weekend of racing was expected to be his start in the 20 k, not his finish. But something strange was swirling in the chill Arctic air, and Sunday was one for the dark horses. In the final stretch of Sunday’s race that bent two unlikely skiers—Michal Novak (CZE), and the 27 year-old Jenssen—emerged...

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Rosie Brennan Skis to First Career Classic Podium

Ben TheyerlNovember 25, 2023

The first time Rosie Brennan stepped onto a World Cup podium, she was holding a pair of classic skis. That was in Lillehammer eight years ago, December 2015, when she skied the scramble leg in Team USA’s third place finish. Since then, there has been more team revelry, plenty of skate podiums, some fast-starts, some near misses, but never an individual classic podium. Above all, in the intervening time, there has been perseverance. Stride for...

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Norway’s Men Continue Distance Domination

Ken RothNovember 25, 2023

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. Learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award—or about supporting FasterSkier coverage—by contacting info@fasterskier.com. Day Two of the 2023-2024 FIS World Cup season showcased the individual start 10 k Classic race in Ruka, Finland. The Finn’s were chomping at the bit for an opportunity to break the Norwegian men’s stranglehold on distance racing: last...

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Emma Ribom Repeats in Ruka Sprint

Ken RothNovember 24, 2023

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. Learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award—or about supporting FasterSkier coverage—by contacting info@fasterskier.com. Today, in the near perpetual darkness of Finland’s early winter, the classic sprint competition announced the dawn of the new World Cup season. The new season brings with it a new rule—perhaps the most significant rule change since skating was...

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Erik Valnes Shows Early Season Form in Ruka Classic Sprint

John TeafordNovember 24, 2023

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. FasterSkier begins its coverage of the 2023-2024 FIS World Cup with the first day of competition from Ruka, Finland. A cold day offered consistent conditions for this Classic Sprint. Even so, Norway advanced seven...

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Update to U.S. Ski & Snowboard 23-24 World Cup Selection Criterion

Chris GroverNovember 19, 2023

Dear Cross Country Community, We needed to make two modifications to our 2023-24 World Cup Selection Criterion based on new World Cup Rule changes that were just ratified by the FIS Council last month. The changes are: The previous World Cup calendar had 5 periods of World Cup, with Canmore and Minneapolis residing in their own period of World Cup. The updated WC calendar combined the former period III and period IV. Now we have...

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The Devon Kershaw Show: We’re back, baby

Nathaniel HerzNovember 19, 2023

We’re off. The 2023-2024 winter kicks off with season opening races across Scandinavia, and the World Cup launches next week. Devon and Nat go old-school, no guests to recap a bevy of interesting results so far. Send us your comments, questions and criticisms: devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com. We’ll be back next week.

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FIS World Cup 2023-2024: Scheduling and Viewing

John TeafordNovember 16, 2023

With the beginning of the FIS World Cup season less than two weeks away, we wanted to remind readers that FasterSkier will continue to post same-day race coverage of all World Cup, Senior National, Junior National, and SuperTour events this season. Like last season, we’ve found that Ski and Snowboard Live is the easiest and most reliable streaming service available for World Cup events, so we’re encouraging our readers to subscribe to this live streaming...

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The Devon Kershaw Show: cross-country skiing’s most famous international couple

Nathaniel HerzOctober 18, 2023

A couple of years ago, Swedish Olympic medalist cross-country skier Maja Dahlqvist matched with U.S. sprinter Kevin Bolger on Tinder. They’ve since become one of their sport’s highest-profile couples. The two of them, during an altitude camp in Utah last month, joined Nat for a joint interview. We’ll be back as the World Cup season kicks off in a few weeks. Send your questions, comments and hate mail to devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com.

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Klæbo was dogged by a leg injury. Then he met a Utah physical therapist with NBA cred.

Nathaniel HerzOctober 13, 2023

PARK CITY, UTAH — Megan Rowlands Stowe was mostly retired from her career as a physical therapist when Johannes Høsflot Klæbo came to her Utah home for dinner last year. Klæbo, 26, is from Norway — where, as a seven-time Olympic medalist in cross-country skiing, he’s a superstar. But for weeks, he’d been training in Utah, where a lingering hamstring injury was bothering him when he arrived at Stowe’s house. Stowe, 57, has her own...

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