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Sunday Rundown: Alpe Cermis, Oberhof, Lahti, Soldier Hollow (Updated x5)

FasterSkierJanuary 8, 2017

U.S. Cross Country Championships (Soldier Hollow): Classic sprints Jennie Bender of Bridger Ski Foundation and Kevin Bolger of the University of Utah won national titles in the classic sprints at 2017 U.S. Cross Country Championships at Soldier Hollow earlier Sunday afternoon. They each took narrow – but, for sprinting, relatively uncontested – victories, as each was in the lead coming into the stadium and led through the final 180-degree turn into the finishing straight. In the women’s race, Bender took the...

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Koukalová Wins Second Mass Start of Season; Dunklee 9th, Crawford 25th

Harald ZimmerJanuary 8, 2017

After twice shooting clean on Sunday, American Susan Dunklee found herself in third place going out on the next loop of the women’s 12.5-kilometer mass start at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Oberhof, Germany, pushing hard to keep up with Czech Republic’s Gabriela Koukalová and Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier. “I was not skiing a sustainable pace,” Dunklee explained in an email to FasterSkier. “Sometimes it makes more sense to keep yourself in the race...

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No One Touches Fourcade in Oberhof Mass Start; North American Men Outside Top 20

Seth AdamsJanuary 11, 2015

France's Martin Fourcade used a cushion from fast skiing to allow for a relaxed-shooting pace. It was an investment that paid off, being the day's only perfect shooter, earning him first place with a comfortable margin.