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Resources TrainingListening in: Nordiq Canada’s Webinar – Group vs Individual Training

Jason AlbertJune 18, 2020

As part of an ongoing webinar series, Nordiq Canada held a webinar titled Group vs Individual Training. Senior National Team athlete Dahria Beatty, National Team coach Erik Bråten, Para Nordic head coach Robin McKeever, and sports psychologist Jon Coleman were on the panel. For any person interested in learning about the yin-yang of individual versus group training sessions, the video, which runs nearly an hour, is well worth a viewing. Bråten, originally from Norway, was hired...

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General Interviews News Para NordicCoach McKeever on Canada’s Unprecedented Paralympic Success and the Future

Gabby NaranjaJune 11, 2018

The 2018 Winter Paralympic Games was one for the books for Team Canada. Its athletes racked up a total of 28 medals in PyeongChang, South Korea, surpassing its previous record of 19 in Vancouver 2010. Of those 28 medals, 16 came from Cross Country Canada’s (CCC) Para Nordic skiers (which includes both cross-country and biathlon). In comparison, five of the 19 medals Canada won in Vancouver were a product of a para-nordic team made up for...

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Canadian National Ski Team General Interviews News Olympics Para Nordic Racing US Ski Team World CupFasterSkier’s Coach of the Year: Eileen Carey; Runners-Up: Matt Whitcomb and Robin McKeever

FasterSkierApril 15, 2018

With the 2017/2018 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is excited to unveil its annual award winners for this past winter. Votes stem from the FS staff, scattered across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and while not scientific, they are intended to reflect a broader sense of the season in review. This set of honors goes to coaches of North American teams in any nordic discipline, at any level – although in an Olympic and...

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Continental Cup General Interviews News Olympics Para NordicKennedy Headed to Paralympics as McKeever’s Second Guide

Gabby NaranjaDecember 8, 2017

Picture trying to ski after staring directly at the sun. Bushes blend into the snow. Turns become an illusion; one second they are there and the next they are not. If it sounds somewhat impossible, consider it’s the field of vision Canadian Paralympic cross-country skier Brian McKeever has had for the past 19 years of his professional cross-country career. “If you stare at the sun for a long time and turn away, you get these...

General NewsIPC Suspends Russia from Rio Paralympics

Gabby NaranjaAugust 7, 2016

As athletes continue to prepare for the upcoming Paralympics taking place exactly one month from Sunday in Rio, those sporting the white, blue and red flag of Russia will not. On Sunday, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced its decision to suspend the Russian from competition in Rio and upcoming IPC competitions.

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General News Para Nordic RacingMasters Ends IPC World Cup Season Undefeated in Cross Country

Gabby NaranjaMarch 24, 2016

Oksana Masters of the U.S. Paralympics Nordic team never lost a cross-country World Cup race all season en route to a convincing overall World Cup win for the second-straight year. “Oksana brought impressive consistency to her racing this season,” coach Eileen Carey told FS.

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General Interviews Para NordicCanada’s 10-Time Paralympian, Bourgonje Bows Out, Keeps Spreading Paralympic Message

Alex KochonMay 22, 2014

Twenty-two years ago, Colette Bourgonje was a grade-school teacher with a ticket to the Albertville Paralympics. But the school wasn’t about to let her take off for her first Paralympics. She went anyway and began an unprecedented streak of competing at seven Winter Paralympics -- 10 Paralympics in all.

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Canadian National Ski Team General IPC News Para Nordic RacingDouble Gold for Canada on Last Day of Paralympics: Klebel Gets First Medal, McKeever Notches 10th Win

BrainspiralMarch 16, 2014

Chris Klebl earned his first Paralympic medal in impressive fashion, winning gold in Sunday's cross-country 10 k sit-ski race on the last day of the Sochi Games. Brian McKeever took his third gold of the week, 10th total, the most of any winter athlete in Paralympic history.

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General News Para Nordic RacingMcKeever Wins Canada’s First Paralympic Gold, Eighth Total, with Both Carleton & Nishikawa

BrainspiralMarch 10, 20141

Canadian Brian McKeever skied to his eighth gold medal and first of the 2014 Winter Paralympics on Monday, winning the visually impaired 20 k classic with the help of two guides, Erik Carleton and Graham Nishikawa -- a first for the 34-year-old Paralympic champion.

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Canadian National Ski Team General NewsPost-Olympic Budget Cuts Hit Canada Para-Nordic Team

Nathaniel HerzAugust 2, 20101

Four months after the conclusion of the Vancouver Paralympic Games, Canada’s Para-Nordic Ski Team has suffered cuts amounting to roughly one-third of its total budget. According to Cross-Country Canada Executive Director Davin Macintosh, the cuts represented 56 percent of the program’s funding from Own the Podium (OTP), the high-performance sports initiative that was set up to propel Canadian athletes to medals at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver. The exact impacts of the...