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Two Years In, the BSF Pro Team is on the Rise: An Interview with Head Coach Andy Newell
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Two Years In, the BSF Pro Team is on the Rise: An Interview with Head Coach Andy Newell

Rachel PerkinsJune 15, 2022

In the spring of 2020, the Bridger Ski Foundation (BSF) launched a new professional racing team, led by Andy Newell, who spent nearly two decades on the U.S. Ski Team as a staple and leader of the American men’s program. Launching early in the pandemic, the BSF Pro Team had few opportunities to show their strength in the first race season, but they came on strong in 2021-22. During U.S. Nationals in Soldier Hollow in...

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Patterson, Harmeyer Win ‘Largest North American Rollerski Race’, NENSA Fall Classic
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Patterson, Harmeyer Win ‘Largest North American Rollerski Race’, NENSA Fall Classic

FasterSkierOctober 15, 2018

This past weekend, more than 170 skiers descended upon the Camp Ethan Allen Training Site at the Vermont National Guard base in Jericho, Vermont, for the New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA) Rossignol Fall Rollerski Classic. According to NENSA Competitive Programs Director Justin Beckwith, the field size nearly doubled from last year, and he believed 172 finishers made it the largest North American rollerski race. The event was hosted in conjunction with the Mansfield Nordic...

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Big Results for Geraghty-Moats, Harvey at Summer GP, Toppidrettsveka
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Big Results for Geraghty-Moats, Harvey at Summer GP, Toppidrettsveka

FasterSkierAugust 20, 2018

Two North Americans posted impressive results at nordic events in Germany and Norway over the last week, with Vermont native Tara Geraghty-Moats racing to first overall in the first-ever Women’s Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix and Quebec’s Alex Harvey placing second, fifth and 10th in three races at the Toppidrettsveka rollerski series. Geraghty-Moats 1st and 2nd at Inaugural Women’s NoCo Grand Prix Brand new to nordic combined as well as the jump hill in Oberwiesenthal, Germany, Geraghty-Moats...

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How Blinkfestivalen Began and Where It’s Headed
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How Blinkfestivalen Began and Where It’s Headed

Gabby NaranjaAugust 10, 2018

In 2005, Norway’s government-owned broadcasting network, NRK, lost production rights for its national football league. In search of a new program to air in place of summer soccer games, NRK, which still held broadcast rights for biathlon and cross-country skiing, approached the Norwegian Ski Federation and the Norwegian Biathlon Federation with a question: Could they find an organizer willing to create a large summer event encapsulating the winter sports of biathlon and nordic skiing? NRK’s answer came...

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NYSEF Rollerski Race Weekend Sept. 15-16

FasterSkierJuly 23, 2018

Press release) RACE WEEKEND WITH A 360-DEGREE PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE ADIRONDACKS, NEW ENGLAND AND CANADA WILMINGTON, NY – The New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF), the New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA) and the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) invite athletes to a rollerski race weekend, September 15-16 in the Adirondacks. We are excited to make this a two-day race series and to take advantage of the Olympic venues in our region. On Saturday,...

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Norwegians Sweep Sprints; Newell Out in Quarterfinal on Last Day of Blink
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Norwegians Sweep Sprints; Newell Out in Quarterfinal on Last Day of Blink

Harald ZimmerJuly 30, 2017

The fans in the well-filled stands of the 1-kilometer rollerski city course in Sandnes, Norway, had many reasons to cheer loudly on Saturday, as their local heroes claimed victories in all four sprint events that concluded the 2017 Blink Skifestivalen (Ski Festival). In the final race of the day, the men’s cross-country sprint was decided by the length of a rollerski, with Norway’s Sindre Bjørnestad Skar crossing first, just 0.1 seconds ahead of Sweden’s Teodor...

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Ustiugov, Bjørgen Rule Mass Start; Newell 18th After Breaking Pole
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Ustiugov, Bjørgen Rule Mass Start; Newell 18th After Breaking Pole

Harald ZimmerJuly 29, 2017

In the men’s 15-kilometer freestyle rollerski mass start on the third day of the 2017 Blink Ski Festival in the coastal town of Sandnes in the southwest of Norway, U.S. Ski Team (USST) member Andy Newell constantly held a position in the first group, staying within a few seconds of the leaders. With two laps to go, he was in sixth place, less than two seconds back. “I felt good about the race,” Newell reflected...

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Kalla Cranks Out Win in Blink’s Lysebotn Opp; Stephen 6th
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Kalla Cranks Out Win in Blink’s Lysebotn Opp; Stephen 6th

Gabby NaranjaJuly 29, 2017

There’s a little more than six months to go until the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. For the recently turned 30-year-old 2014 champion,Stephen finished sixth overall (+3:35.7) on Thursday, after  Norway’s Ragnhild Haga in fourth (+2:43.4) and Pärmäkoski in fifth (+2:47.0). Prior to winning three years ago, Stephen also placed third in the famous rollerski hill climb in 2012 (the Lysebotn Opp was Women |

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Illinois Roller Ski Race Series Announces 2014 Race Dates
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Illinois Roller Ski Race Series Announces 2014 Race Dates

BrainspiralMay 15, 2014

Illinois Roller Ski Race Series consists of four 10 k races where the top 30 male, female and junior racers in each race earn points towards the season champion awards. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards for the top finishing male, female and junior are hand out at a barbecue that follows each race.  The food is great and everyone has a chance to share stories, and to rest up to go out on an optional pick up training roller ski. 100% of the net proceeds from the races...

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