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WADA Announces Changes To 2005 Prohibited List

FasterSkierSeptember 23, 2004

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced Tuesday that its Executive Committee approved the Prohibited List of Substances and Methods for 2005. The new List will be published prior to October 1, 2004, and will go into effect January 1, 2005. Some changes will be made from the current List in 2005. Those changes include: The topical application of glucocorticosteroids will no longer require an abbreviated therapeutic use exemption. Beta-2 agonists, often used in the treatment...

Training

Race Faster By Improving Your Technique

FasterSkierSeptember 23, 2004

The race season is only two months away. You’ll have more fun and race faster this winter if you ski technically well. We suggest that you use the finale months of the dryland season and the first part of the winter to improve and fin-tune your technique skills. Fasterskier.com posted a series of very good technique articles by Stefan Lindinger and Walter Minatti Â this summer. Check them out in case you missed them: Part 1...

Camps Training

Successful Ramsau Camp For Swedish National Team

FasterSkierSeptember 19, 2004

Swedish Skidsport.com reports that the Swedish men’s team completed a very successful ten day long Ramsau, Austria camp on Thursday this week. National team captain Per Erik Ronnestrand says that the team experienced perfect ski conditions throughout the entire camp, with hard tracks and sun every morning on the Ramsau glacier at 2700 meters. In addition to skiing, the skiers did quite a bit of rollerskiing on the closed-to-traffic rollerski course, and on the nearby...

Health Training

Rene Sommerfeldt Injured

FasterSkierSeptember 18, 2004

Swedish SkidSport.com reports that last years overall World Cup winner, Rene Sommerfeldt of Germany is slowed down by an injury.

Camps Training

Development Team Coach Says Hold Back At High Altitude Camp

FasterSkierSeptember 17, 2004

Norwegian national development team coach Morten Aa Djupvik â€œput the breaksâ€ on his skiers during their first high altitude camp with the elite team.

Health Training

WADA Chief Not Afraid Of DYN-EPO

FasterSkierSeptember 17, 2004

Norwegian newspaper VG reports that WADA director Rune Andersen isn’t nearly as pessimistic as the Norwegian women’s national team coach Svein Tore Samdal regarding possible dopers chances of getting away with cheating. Samdal is afraid that DYN-EPO can cause doping situations similar to what happened during the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. – I believe that DYN-EPO might have been mistaken for other blood-products available on the market. Our science department is working closely...

Dryland Training

Skier Hurt In Crash With Sheep

FasterSkierSeptember 16, 2004

A crash with a sheep could have wrecked the season for Norwegian skier Krister Trondsen who was selected to race the upcoming sprint World Cup races in DÃ¼sseldorf the day before the accident.

Health Training

Norwegian Coach Fears New Doping Threat

FasterSkierSeptember 16, 2004

Norwegian women’s national team coach Svein Tore Samdal fears extensive doping this season.

Training

Norwegian Marathon Team – looking the best ever

FasterSkierSeptember 11, 2004

The private Norwegian marathon-team has been in existence for a few seasons, but the planning has never been as professional as this year. – We have notices an increased interest around the team and the skiers. Our sponsors feel they get their money’s worth, says team director Lars Aabol. The team sponsor, the Sport equipment provider, Intersport, is so satisfied that it has decided to support the team for two more years. The skiers has...

Dryland Training

Helmet Use Is Now Mandatory

FasterSkierSeptember 7, 2004

It’s now mandatory to use a helmet when rollerskiing at training camps as a member of the Norwegian junior national team. Junior national team coach Jon Arne Schjetne decided to make helmet usage mandatory in rollerski workout following Unni Odegaard’s recent accident. – I wanted to focus on increasing helmet usage among Norwegian roller skiers and felt it would be good to start with the junior national team. The skiers agreed with me, says Schjetne....

Dryland Training

130-Kilometer Long Rollerski Workouts

FasterSkierSeptember 6, 2004

Terje Monsen (47) from Molde, Norway wants to do well in the 90-kilometer long Swedish Vasaloppet marathon race. His goal is in fact to beat (all) the younger skiers from his area that are also traveling across the border to participate in the World’s largest cross-country ski race. Terje knows that â€œtalk is cheapâ€ come March and is preparing himself for the winter with workouts that can (at least) mentally scare his competitors. Terje skied...

Camps Training

Short Altitude Camp For Hjelmeset

FasterSkierSeptember 3, 2004

World Cup skier Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset got sick with a cold already during the first week of the Norwegian national team’s altitude camp in Stelvio, Italy. A sore throat and chest made Odd-Bjorn return to Norway last Friday, after only four days in Italy. -I have been to altitude so many times that I know that I would not have gotten healthy again when we are living as high as we do at this camp, says...

Camps Training

Fasterskier September Rollerski and Training Camp

FasterSkierSeptember 3, 2004

Fasterskier’s annual September rollerski and dryland training and technique camp is coming up during September 16 – 19 in Park City, Utah. New for this year’s four-day camp is the opportunity to select and take part in individual sessions. E-mail Fasterskier coaches Torbjorn Karlsen and John Aalberg at

Dryland Training

Smugglers Blues: I Found Don Johnson’s Boat While Rollerskiing

FasterSkierSeptember 1, 2004

I was greatly impressed a couple weeks ago when I read that Alaskan Tim Kelly found a ski area on a deserted island on one of his workouts. I’m not trying to top that, but I did â€œfindâ€ the original Miami Vice TV series 800-horsepower boat used by Don Johnson on my last rollerski workout in Norway before I returned to the US. Let’s first go down memory lane with the first part of the...

Camps Training

Three Different Altitude Plans

FasterSkierAugust 27, 2004

The Norwegian cross country national teams left for altitude training camps in central Europe on Monday this week. The plan is obliviously to become better, but the women, the men’s regular team and the sprint team are all using different theories for how to utilize altitude and become better. The women’s team left for Seiser Alm, Italy and 1800-meters altitude. They will do no on-snow skiing. The plan calls for only dryland training. The men’s...

Training

FasterSkier.com Club August Issue

FasterSkierAugust 27, 2004

The August issue of Fasterskier.com’s Club subscription service was sent to subscribers on August 20. The Club provides detailed, in-depth coverage of modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country.Â Most of the Club’s articles will cover issues related to training and racing, and will also include material for all ages and abilities, from World Cup skiers’ training to important elements of youth and age group training and skiing. The August issue This month...

Lifestyle Training

Summer Skiing On Eagle Glacier Alaska

FasterSkierAugust 27, 2004

These days I ski race for the fun of it. I train because I enjoy it. Still, there is a part of me that misses the days when I was a full-time ski racer. One thing I miss most is training camp. I loved being able to get away from my daily routine of work and training for a week or two, solely to focus on skiing and becoming a faster skier. It was mentally...

Dryland Training

Use A Helmet When Rollerskiing!

FasterSkierAugust 25, 2004

Norwegian cross country Sports Director, Bjornar Hakensmoen says in a statement that Unni Odegaard’s recent accident where she was hit by a car while rollerskiing should be a wake-up call for those who are too lazy or dumb to not use a helmet. Roy Odegaard, Unni’s father is not in doubt what saved his daughter in the collision last Sunday. – The helmet made the difference, he says. Unni had just started her workout when...

Health Training

World Cup Skier With Back Problems

FasterSkierAugust 25, 2004

World Cup skier Havard Bjerkeli (Norway) is struggling to train as he desire because of on-going back pains. Havard broke his foot when he was 3-years old. He has grown taller than most people following this, but the problem is that one leg has grown a little longer than the other. This obliqueness has transferred to the back, and its causing problems.

Dryland Training

Working On The Railroad

FasterSkierAugust 24, 2004

â€œCasey Jones you better watch your speed.â€ — Grateful Dead It’s the season for long rollerskiing trips. Duluth, MN rocks for that since we’re at the northern terminus of the Willard Munger Trail. 72 miles of paved trail on an old railroad bed. I like to start from the trailhead parking lot that’s behind the Munger Inn, west side of town. Appropriately, the first thing you do out of the lot is sidestep across some...

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