Para-Nordic World Cup – FasterSkier

FIS is taking over governance of Para Nordic skiing, what does it mean for the sport’s development in the United States?

Ben TheyerlSeptember 4, 2022

The International Ski Federation’s (FIS) annual Congress held at the end of May this year was an unusually dramatic affair. Fights over media rights – whether to look at serializing the sport of Nordic skiing into something like Formula 1’s Drive to Survive – sent skiing’s international governing body into a metaphorically different part of the Netflix catalog, less Dive to Survive and more House of Cards, West Wing, or Newsroom. If only Aaron Sorkin...

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Kendall Gretsch Prepares for Second Games of the Year

Ella HallFebruary 2, 2022

There are a select few athletes who compete in both the summer and winter Olympics, and fewer still is the number of athletes who have won gold medals at the two. Para-athlete, Kendall Gretsch, holds this distinction having won two gold medals at Pyeongchang in 2018 and gold in the para-triathlon at Tokyo in 2021. With two Olympics in the span of six months, Gretsch was set for a big year. In a TeamUSA interview...

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Canadian Para-Nordic Guide Carleton Prioritizes Alberta World Cup

Alex KochonNovember 20, 2012

Entering his third straight season with the Canadian Para-Nordic World Cup Team, Erik Carleton has already made some big decisions this year. Among them, he had to choose whether to race the Alberta Cross Country World Cup in Canmore or go for gold at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup opener in Vuokatti, Finland. It must be tough to be Carleton, a competitive-nordic racer who doubles as a Para-Nordic guide for Brian McKeever, arguably the...

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Para-Nordic Update – US and Canada Strong in World Cup Action

FasterSkierFebruary 1, 20101

This past weekend Canadian and American Para-Nordic athletes competed in a combination biathlon/cross-country ski World Cup in Bessan, France. 140 athletes from 20 different nations competed in four events, comprising of two biathlon races and two cross-country races. North American skiers performed very well. US Report Andy Soule put more points in his pocket to pad his overall leaders position in this year’s World Cup biathlon series. Soule skied a great race on Saturday, and...