HomeTag

Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg

Johaug Crushes Stage 6 for Ski Tour Overall Win; Diggins Leads U.S. in Sixth (Updated)
NewsRacingWorld Cup

Johaug Crushes Stage 6 for Ski Tour Overall Win; Diggins Leads U.S. in Sixth (Updated)

Jason AlbertFebruary 23, 2020

We’ll start with the weather: think all over the place. A moving target for meteorologist with moisture spitting from the skies, and air masses swirling this way and that making the trees sway like a mamba line along the course. A wax tech’s nightmare scenario? Yes. It certainly trended in that direction.   By all measures, this was Therese Johaug’s, Norway’s latest version of a cross-country skiing record-breaker, stage and tour. Of six stages total, she...

CONTINUE READING
Nordic Nation: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) and the Climate in High Performance Skiing
MultimediaNordic NationPodcasts

Nordic Nation: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) and the Climate in High Performance Skiing

Rachel PerkinsJanuary 22, 2020

In this episode, hosted by FasterSkier contributor Rachel Perkins, we dive into the issue of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). This condition was formerly known as the female athlete triad, which was described as inadequate energy intake, the loss of menstruation (amenorrhea), and decreased bone mineral density. The name was changed to include males, who are also affected, and to expand beyond the three symptoms originally included. Though not quite the same, the condition...

CONTINUE READING
Johaug Remains in Reach Despite a Stage 1 Tour de Ski Win
RacingTour de Ski

Johaug Remains in Reach Despite a Stage 1 Tour de Ski Win

Jason AlbertDecember 28, 2019

Saturday marked the start of the 14th Tour de Ski in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Forgoing the traditional prologue start to determine time back to the leader, organizers threw in a spicy 11-kilometer mass start freestyle. Easy to follow for fans, maybe not so much for those following in the wake of Norway’s Therese Johaug.  The scene was a Swiss winter ideal: plentiful snow, portions of the course dappled in sunlight, others shrouded in a drifting-in and...

CONTINUE READING
NewsRacingWorld Cup

Swedish Junior Champion Frida Karlsson Pulled From Competition After Failing to Meet Health Criteria

Rachel PerkinsDecember 10, 2019

The Swedish news outlet SVT announced this morning that Frida Karlsson, Sweden’s rising junior phenom, has been pulled from competition after not meeting team health criteria during a routine check last week. Karlsson raced the World Cup opening series of races in Ruka, placing 40th in the classic sprint, 11th in the 10 k classic, finishing 8th overall after the final 10 k skate stage.  Last season the 20-year-old won the 5-kilometer classic and 10...

CONTINUE READING
Nilsson Makes a Clean Sweep in Québec; Diggins Skis the 4th Fastest Time of Day, Bjornsen 11th
NewsRacingUS Ski TeamWorld Cup

Nilsson Makes a Clean Sweep in Québec; Diggins Skis the 4th Fastest Time of Day, Bjornsen 11th

Rachel PerkinsMarch 24, 2019

It was beginning to seem as though it could not be done, and then it happened.  Norway’s Therese Johaug did not stand atop the podium after the 10-kilometer classic first stage of the women’s pursuit in Québec City. Sprint champion Stina Nilsson did. Not only that, but the bonus seconds garnered from Nilsson’s win in Friday’s skate sprint allowed her to enter the course for the final leg of the week’s three-race series with a margin...

CONTINUE READING
Québec City World Cup Final Women’s Pursuit Race Rundown
NewsRacingWorld Cup

Québec City World Cup Final Women’s Pursuit Race Rundown

FasterSkierMarch 24, 2019

FIS World Cup Finals Québec Women’s 10 k Freestyle Pursuit Day three in Québec City brought sunny skies and fast tracks. The first starter on the day for the 10 k freestyle pursuit, Sweden’s Stina Nilsson, took the win and with it the Québec City overall. Nilsson began with a 33.2 second lead over Norway’s Ingvild Flugstad Østberg in second and a 49.4 second lead on third starter Therese Johaug, also of Norway. Nilsson won in...

CONTINUE READING
Johaug Wins Davos 10 k Skate; Diggins Fifth and Brennan Sixth for the U.S.
NewsRacingWorld Cup

Johaug Wins Davos 10 k Skate; Diggins Fifth and Brennan Sixth for the U.S.

Jason AlbertDecember 16, 2018

Coming off a two-season hiatus from the World Cup for having a banned steroid in her system, Norway’s Therese Johaug has come back onto the distance race stage with time checks and results showing no remorse. This is not to say that Johaug’s reentry to the sport comes with arrogance. But it is to highlight that, on course, her level of control in the early season World Cup distance events has been dominant. Johaug has...

CONTINUE READING
Sunday Rundown: Davos, Canmore, Hochfilzen (Updated 2x)
NewsRacing

Sunday Rundown: Davos, Canmore, Hochfilzen (Updated 2x)

Gabby NaranjaDecember 16, 2018

FIS World Cup Davos, Switzerland  10k/15k Freestyle Individual Start Women’s Report | Men’s Report On Sunday, the final day of racing on the World Cup before a two-week break prior to the start of the Tour de Ski, the early season trend for women’s distance skiing continues. Norway’s Therese Johaug won the 10-kilometer freestyle individual start in Davos in a time of 26:06.9 minutes. She led the race at every intermediate time checkpoint. The only...

CONTINUE READING
Norway Unstoppable for the win in Women’s 4 x 5 k Relay; U.S. 5th
GeneralNewsRacingResultsWorld Cup

Norway Unstoppable for the win in Women’s 4 x 5 k Relay; U.S. 5th

Gabby NaranjaDecember 9, 2018

For Norway, relays are often tallied not by wins, but how many wins have been missed. Back in 2009, Team Norway watched on as Team Sweden took the top spot of the podium for the women’s 4 x 5-kilometer relay event in Beitostølen, Norway. In the nine years after that second place finish in Beitostølen, the Norwegian women’s team has missed winning the World Cup relay–excluding team sprints–only one other time (FIS reports that as...

CONTINUE READING
Saturday Rundown: Beitostølen, Pokljuka (Biathlon), and Sovereign Lake (Updated 4 x)
Continental CupNewsRacingUS BiathlonWorld Cup

Saturday Rundown: Beitostølen, Pokljuka (Biathlon), and Sovereign Lake (Updated 4 x)

Jason AlbertDecember 8, 2018

FIS World Cup Beitostolen, Norway 15 k/30k Freestyle Individual Start  Women’s Race Report | Men’s Race Report  With snow falling and trees covered with fresh snow, Beitostølen, Norway’s wintery essence was on full display during the women’s 15-kilometer freestyle individual start on Saturday. Keeping her distance win-streak alive was Norway’s Therese Johaug who won her fourth World Cup distance race of the season making it four for four in 2018/2019. Johaug won in a time of...

CONTINUE READING
Pärmäkoski Wins Another 10 k Classic; Diggins 8th, Bjornsen 11th in Falun
Canadian National Ski TeamGeneralNewsRacingUS Ski TeamWorld Cup

Pärmäkoski Wins Another 10 k Classic; Diggins 8th, Bjornsen 11th in Falun

Gabby NaranjaMarch 17, 2018

FALUN, Sweden — To those watching, even to those racing, the winner was the woman who had led most of Saturday’s 10-kilometer classic mass start: Norway’s Marit Bjørgen. “Marit and Tiril [Udnes Weng], another Norwegian young girl, they were skiing really fast and I thought that they would be first and second,” Norway’s Ingvild Flugstad Østberg told FasterSkier after the race. Seven minutes after the start gun, Bjørgen had moved to the apex of the...

CONTINUE READING
Sunday Rundown: U.S. Nationals; Tour de Ski Finale; Oberhof Relays
Canadian National Ski TeamGeneralNewsRacingTour de SkiUS Ski TeamWorld Cup

Sunday Rundown: U.S. Nationals; Tour de Ski Finale; Oberhof Relays

FasterSkierJanuary 7, 2018

U.S. Cross Country Championships (Anchorage, Alaska): 20/30 k classic mass starts Women’s report Sweden’s Hedda Bångman denied Caitlin Patterson of her first outright victory of the week at 2018 U.S. Cross Country Championships, but Patterson as the first American racked up her third-straight national title in the women’s 20-kilometer classic mass start at Kincaid Park on Sunday in Anchorage, Alaska. Bångman, a 22-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU), pulled off a 15.9-second...

CONTINUE READING
Weng Repeats Tour de Ski Title as Diggins Climbs to Third
GeneralNewsRacingTour de SkiUS Ski TeamWorld Cup

Weng Repeats Tour de Ski Title as Diggins Climbs to Third

Chelsea LittleJanuary 7, 2018

The question wasn’t whether – it was when. Defending Tour de Ski champion Heidi Weng started the day with a two-second deficit to Norwegian teammate Ingvild Flugstad Østberg. But as one of the best climbers in the World Cup field, it was fairly certain that at the top of the Alpe Cermis, Weng would be crowned the Tour winner again. The move came after about six and a half kilometers of the nine-kilometer skate pursuit...

CONTINUE READING
Despite Being in ‘Last Place’ Brennan Battles Back for 22nd; Weng Wins 10 k Skate
Canadian National Ski TeamNewsRacingUS Ski TeamWorld Cup

Despite Being in ‘Last Place’ Brennan Battles Back for 22nd; Weng Wins 10 k Skate

Gabby NaranjaDecember 17, 2016

A little less than twenty seconds into Saturday’s 10-kilometer freestyle mass start, American Rosie Brennan was facing the wrong way. A collision in the first 100 meters had left her spinning and when she finally came to a stop, all that lay before her was the small section of course she had already covered. A few seconds later — upon turning around and seeing the entire women’s field of World Cup athletes skiing away —...

CONTINUE READING
GeneralNewsRacing

No Bjørgen? No Problem as Norway’s Østberg, Falla Take World Champs Team Sprint Title

Alex KochonFebruary 22, 2015

Longtime friends and teammates Ingvild Flugstad Østberg and Maiken Caspersen Falla, of Norway, were out for some redemption after their fourth-place finish in the 2013 World Championships team sprint, and they got it with a sizeable win over Sweden's Ida Ingemarsdotter and Stina Nilsson, while Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk and Sylwia Jaśkowiec were thrilled with bronze.

CONTINUE READING

Older Posts