Cody, WY–MWSC Cross-country athletes just finished the first camp of the training year in Northwestern Wyoming's Beartooth Mountains. Steve Scott, Tom Keefe and coach Will Sweetser enjoyed almost perfect spring weather and put in more than 20 hours on snow. A short snowstorm two days into the camp guaranteed great skiing for the next week. Hardwax was the order of the day for a few days' early classic skiing. As the weather warmed and the...
Axel Teichmann had to have surgery on an injured leg. It looks like there is no end to the German ski star’s bad luck. He was sick this winter and didn’t get to race in the Olympics. Then he lost his A-team status on the German team for the upcoming season. And now he got injured and had to have surgery. It’s expected that he won't be able to fully load his leg and train...
Tomorrow marks the end of the grooming of snow at Auburn Ski Club for the season, and the Canadian National Team will depart for more Northern latitudes. They’ve spent their days skiing in the morning and enjoying the surrounding mountains and lakes in the afternoon, including a low-elevation interval session and swim on the Yuba River and lunch in Nevada City on Wednesday. The Sun Valley Junior Ski Team, including Coaches Rick Kapala, Abi Holt,...
July 2-8, 2006 Cresthill Resort, Hayward, WI Central Cross Country Ski Association (“CXC Skiingâ€) is pleased to announce the 2006 Regional Training/Testing Camp for CXC Ski Team, Regional Development Group, State Development Groups, and past year’s Junior Olympians. Athletes not qualifying for these groups may petition in to the camp by writing Yuri Gusev at www.cxcskiing.org to find registration info. Congratulations to the State Development Group athletes and Midwest/Great Lakes Junior Olympic Team members for...
Members of the Canadian National Team have been skiing at the Auburn Ski Club near Truckee, CA this week. Mark Nadell of Far West Nordic sent us some pictures. The famous Tav Streit poaching some spring skiing action Chris Jeffries
Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier Summer Training Camps Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier Thirty five minutes south of Anchorage by car, and a short ten minute flight will get you to the best summer ski training opportunity in the world. The Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier, located on an alpine ridge 5700 feet above Girdwood and the Turnagain Arm, is just a short walk from the...
Source: Langrenn.com One of the Worlds best long distance skiers, Jorgen Aukland of Norway will bike less and kayak more. He is hoping that this will make him stronger at the end of Vasaloppet.
Poked, pushed, measured and evaluated. That's been the name of the game for the USST's World Cup and Continental Cup members for the last week in Utah. The USST coaching staff has put a greater importance on sport science to better understand the capacities and liabilities of America's top skiers. The tests measured endurance, power, strength, speed and coordination. Seeing how these factors change during the preparation period (with testing three more times through summer...
First of three camps in Park City “accomplished all the goals” PARK CITY, Utah (May 31) – U.S. cross country athletes headed for home Tuesday after a non-holiday holiday weekend and their first training camp of the preseason. The World Cup and Continental Cup athletes trained through the weekend, including a final roller-ski and run workout Monday while much of the nation marked Memorial Day with a day off from work. It was drill time,...
The 2006 CXC Coach’s Symposium brought a large group of coaches from around the Midwest as far away as Traverse City and Detroit, MI. Coaches received a great amount of information on basic principles of exercise physiology and sports training, physiology of strength training and developing strength programs, teaching methods of ski technique and basic principle of technique for classic and skate, and the science of waxing tips and techniques. bryan.fish@cxcskiing.org
Bengt Saltin (SWE), Chairman of the FIS Medical Committee, retired at the 45th International Ski Congress after having served on the Committee since 2000. FIS Newsflash had a chance to interview him after his last Committee meeting in Vilamoura (POR) earlier this week. FIS Newsflash: Did you have a specific agenda when you became Chairman in 2002? Bengt Saltin: My strength has always lied in conceptualizing and setting up structural frameworks for programs. When I...
A paragraph from my training last week: “I am already soaked to the core, even though I haven’t yet started the time trial. Rain is coming down in sheets and the road only twenty feet ahead is shrouded in fog. Before my warm-up, I drove to the top of Honey Hollow Road and measured it to be around 2 miles. As if I am about to jump into a cold pool of water, I start...
Presque Isle, ME—The University of Maine at Presque Isle just completed the first round of elite Nordic athlete testing in cooperation with the Maine Winter Sports Center. The university has invested more than $5 million in its physical education, exercise physiology and health facilities during the past year. A significant portion of those funds were dedicated to establishing a world class exercise physiology testing lab. Now, the lab has been put to the test—or more...
The Swedish national team is training on-snow in Meraker, Norway starting this past Sunday. There is enough snow in the Kirkeby mountain and the team has arranged for 10-kilometer of groomed tracks. All members of the sprint and the distance team will participate. Dryland training and skiing are both on the agenda. Source: Skidsport.com
The Executive Committee decided to seek broad stakeholder comment on the question of whether artificially-induced hypoxic conditions should be placed on the 2007 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List). The consultation process on hypoxic conditions will occur in parallel to the process implemented for feedback on the draft 2007 List which is currently in circulation. Following the consultation period, stakeholder feedback will receive full review by the WADA List Committee in September 2006, which...
National Team Members Praise Conditions May 15, 2006 – While most skiers have put away the skis for the season and dusted off their bikes and roller skis, Canada’s elite Nordic skiers returned to the Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre (host venue of the 2005 Greater Vernon World Cup) this week for some on-snow spring training. Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre Manager Mike Edwards was approached by an elite ski team from Alberta about hosting a spring...
CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKI ASSOCIATION MAY TECHNIQUE CAMP FOR MASTER/CITIZEN SKIERS RECAP Madison and Hayward, Wisconsin Central Cross Country Skiing brought one of the world's premiere coaches to Madison and Hayward for 4 days of meetings with the staff and athletes of our new 9 member CXC Team and offered an afternoon skate roller ski clinics. Clinic in Madison, WI A primary goal was to offer masters/citizen skiers world class technique coaching. Igor Badamshin skied...
Lukas Bauer, the Olympic silver medalist from The Czech Republic started his season preparations on May 1. in Oberwiesenthal, Germany, not very far from his own hometown in the Czech Republic. He was training with Rene Sommerfeldt’s training group consisting of Janko Neuber, Tom Reichelt, Benjamin Seifert and Rene. National team head coach Jochen Bechle is happy. – We need new impulses and the athletes don’t mind competition, says Behle to xc-ski.de
– I’m going to become a better skier by not being on the national team, says Jan Egil Andresen after being kicked off the team. He is not very complimentary about the “World’s best†national team. Source: Langrenn.com
Turbulence In Sweden: Fredriksson Critical To Braaten The Fredriksson brothers are considering leaving the Swedish national team unless the camp schedule is changed. Source: Langrenn.com Mathias Fredriksson is critical to national team head coach Inge Braaten’s program for the upcoming season. Braaten has together with assistant coach Thomas Alsagaard proposed a camp schedule to the skiers. Fredriksson was not happy with what he was presented. – I don’t agree with Braaten concerning the camp schedule...