“Today was good,” Sammy Smith said of her medal-winning performance at World Junior Championships. A bit of an understatement, perhaps, but her smile described the deep satisfaction she felt. “I didn’t think that I skied [the qualifier] as tactically well as I was hoping to,” she continued. “And definitely lost some time on parts of the course where I shouldn’t have. But going into the heats, I was really excited and things turned out...
The International Ski Federation (FIS) Nordic Junior World Championships are being held in Planica, Slovenia February 5–11. So far, two events have been contested, the Freestyle Sprints, and the 20-kilometer Freestyle Mass Start. Freestyle Sprints The Sprints were held on a 1.2-kilometer course for both the men and women. Women’s Freestyle Sprint FIRST Gina Del Rio (AND) SECOND Samantha Smith (USA) THIRD Milla Grosberghaugen Andreassen (NOR) Remarkably, every American competitor qualified...