Last year, Noah Hoffman was just another young athlete on the U.S. Ski Team’s Continental Cup squad. He was in the pipeline, developing towards a bright future, and wrapped up the season with a couple of SuperTour podiums, a fifth-place finish at U.S. Nationals, and a great race in Switzerland that nobody heard about. At SuperTour Finals, he finished second in the hill climb, his most high-profile domestic result of the year. In other words,...
November 24, 2010 Who says the sun doesn’t shine in the winter in northern Finland? Ahvo and Ritva Taipale are on the road to Kuusamo again for the Nordic Opening! The drive up to Kuusamo was one of the most scenic ever. We probably could have taken a few hundred post card pictures. The sun was shining, the sky was spotted with some wispy looking purple, white and pink clouds and the trees are covered...
Over the course of the weekend there will be no less than ten races in Kuusamo: This marks the season opener for ski jumping and nordic combined, while cross-country enters WC round two, embarking on a 3-day mini tour starting with sprints on Friday, distance on Saturday and Sunday.
To race at the World Championships at Holmenkollen on home turf in February is maybe one of the biggest moments in a Norwegian skier’s career. The Norwegian Ski Association just announced their criteria for naming athletes to that team.
It was a tough week for the Canadian World Cup Team, but the group is determined to look forward by keeping their long-term plan in mind and refocus on their goals and priorities. Alex Harvey, the top finisher in Saturday’s sprint, said the events of the week made it seem “ like the sky fell on us. . . .It made it really hard for the athletes to focus on the races. . .”. The...