Post Season: Crust Skiing in Utah The racing season just ended for Utah's XC enthusiasts but instead of taking a lazy break it is the crust that attracts them. Once addicted to it you cannot pass on a great crust ski day! The crust ski conditions this weekend up at Strawberry Reservoir (30 miles from Soldier Hollow next to Daniels Summit) were just amazing. Plenty of sun and fun by skiing super fast through the...
That’s what Anders Aukland believe is the reason why the season didn’t start well. Source: Langrenn.com
Rebecca Dussault and her Mom won the womens race in the Elk Mountain Grand Traverse last weekend, while John Brown and Brian Smith won for the men. This extreme backcountry Nordic race starts at the Crested Butte, Colorado Community School at midnight, climbs over and around Crested Butte Mountain Resort over Death Pass, to Friends Hut, and over Star Pass. From Star Pass, the race continues through the Taylor Basin and over Taylor pass, which...
Hosted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Federation (IF) / National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) Anti-Doping Symposium was held in Lausanne on 30th — 31st March, 2006. Approximately 125 IF/NADO representatives, including FIS Secretary General Sarah Lewis and Madeleine Erb, administrator of FIS Anti-Doping activities, came together to discuss the current and future activities in the fight against doping. The main themes for presentations and subsequent working group discussions included effective in- and out-of-competition...
For those who feel that the Birkie and other XC skiing events aren’t challenging enough we can highly recommend Reindeer racing! We asked on of our readers in Finland, former biathlon skier Ari Niittyvuopio (41) to tell us about his latest passion — Reindeer racing: – We are training the reindeer from beginning of December, and the race season usually starts at end of February and last until end of April. We are training the...
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Source: Nettavisen Marit Bjœrgen and Svein Tore Samdal were both tearful after Bjorgen’s impressive 30-kilometer gold at the 2005 Worlds. . Photo: Stian Hœgland
In light of the recent start prohibitions that were issued as a result of FIS pre-competition blood testing at the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Professor Bengt Saltin, Chairman of the FIS Medical Committee provided answers to some of the most common questions related to the FIS blood testing program: What is the purpose of the FIS blood testing program and the FIS haemoglobin (Hb) limits of 16.0 g/dl for ladies and 17.0 g/dl for...
Axel Teichmann must undergo surgery because of a hair root inflammation and will not be able to compete in the Olympics. Teichmann was the 2004-2005 World Cup champion, but has struggled to find consistent form this season. Franz Goering, who was scheduled to replace Teichmann, will not be able to start on Sunday due to a cold. Andreas Schluetter will take over the starting position. After the restriction on Evi Sachenbacher yesterday, this is the...
German skier Axel Teichman, a medal favorite in all the distance events, is sick a few days ahead of the start of the Olympics. He is not going to start in Sunday’s pursuit. The German star Axel Teichman missed a big part of last year’s World Championship in Oberstdorf and is now sick with fever and pain. – He has struggled a lot all season and I feel sorry for him, says German head coach...
Lots of new snow, the big track setter had not showed up yet, but a large forest service “belt machine†had packed it nicely for classic uphill powder skiing. Here are some photos from a Tuesday morning workout in Mill Creek Canyon outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Tuesday January 31, 2006: – The temperature was around 30 Fahrenheit (-1 Celsius), 6-8 inches of new snow last night and a lot more expected the next three...
There will be tests for new designer steroids at the Torino Olympics next month according to the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Dick Pound won't reveal the names of the new drugs. He says he wants to keep that a surprise to catch athletes who cheat. But as CBC Margo Kelly reports, there are still ways for athletes to use drugs and avoid detection. Read a transcript of the CBC's interview with Dick Pound...
Here is the December issue of the FasterSkier Club newslettter. These articles are sent to our club subscribers each month via email. To sign up, see the end of this article. FASTERSKIER CLUB SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE – 2005 December, 2005 Volume 2 Issue 8 The Club! This is the eighth issue of the 2005 season Fasterskier.com’s subscription service covering in-depth, modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country skiing. The subscription service runs from May...
Marit Bjorgen has been diagnosed with bronchitis and has started a seven day antibiotic cure. What looked like a cold that started on Saturday was diagnosed as bronchitis by an Italian doctor on Tuesday, according to the Norwegian team’s physician Hans Petter Stokke. Bjorgen has as part of the treatment been moved from the altitude camp at Seiser Alm (Alpe di Suisse) to lower elevation in order to speed up the recovery 7 day antibiotic...
Exemption For Filbrich German skier Jens Filbrich has received dispensation from The International Skifederation (FIS) to race with his high hemoglobinvalue. Source: Skidsport.com German skier Jens Filbrich was denied a start right during the Kuusamo World Cup races earlier this season. The reason was that his hemoglobinvalue exceeded the legal value of 175 for men. He has now received permission from FIS to race with higher values. The FIS committee agreed that Filbrich’s values are...
Nome, Alaska may not seem the most obvious place to spend New Years. However, it had one of the best community firework displays I’ve seen in a while, and at less than 150 miles from the dateline was one of the last places you have a chance to catch the New Year. It also had some of the most fun skate skiing I’ve had since crust skiing last spring. Although locals were complaining of the...
Skiers go into the weight room to turn strength into power, and as the big races approach, to turn this into ski specific power. With the New Year here the racing season is very much underway for most skiers. For those with Olympic aspirations, many athletes are getting more ski specific with their strength and power building, both in the weight room, and on snow. Andrew Newell V2ing uphill en route to a fast prologue...
The Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks believes in the adage: Think Globally, Act Locally. To that end, more than 90 members of the Nordic Ski Club, including skiers from 68 years old down to elementary age, fought the rampant obesity that plagues our society by attempting, and in most cases succeeding, to ski their ages in kilometers on the Jim Whisenhant Ski Trails at Birch Hill in Fairbanks on the day after Christmas. It’s a...
The US National championship at Soldier Hollow, Utah starts on January 3. The first race is the 15/30-kilometer freestyle. We ran into a number of the contenders training at Soldier Hollow in the morning of December 24 and asked them what type of training they were doing today. The conditions were perfect with fast hard packed course snow, rock solid classic tracks, 28-30 Fahrenheit, sunshine and no wind. Carl Swenson, US Ski Team (Two twelfth...
Much of the science in endurance sports begins with intricate testing to benchmark athletes in an effort to help develop physiologic and biomechanical methods to tweak performance. Dr. Sue Beaudet, a professor at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, recently spent a sabbatical at the Vuokatti Sport Institute in Finland. Vuokatti was chosen because of its specialization in the study of cross-country skiing and biathlon at a world-class level. While in Finland, Dr. Beaudet...