Women Club Men Club Annie Liotta AWS Forrest Mahlen APUNSC Marion Woods AWS Logan Hanneman FAST Cambria McDermott STRATTON Patrick Caldwell STRATTON Stella Holt Glacier Nordic Dylan McGarthwaite MSC Sharmila Ahmed GO Training Peter Namrol AWS Hannah Boyer FXC-NCSF John Hegman MANSFIELD Heather Mooney -will race JWC instead STRATTON This “Scando Cup” trip is one of the premier steps of the elite junior athlete and coach development pipeline in the U.S. The Scando Cup is...
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Drew Goldsack leads Graeme Killick December 07, 2010 (Canmore, AB) – The Alberta Cup Series kicked off this past weekend with a 1km freestyle sprint competition on Dec. 4 and 9km classic race on Dec. 5. Saturday’s freestyle sprint race saw an Alberta World Cup Academy sweep of the Open Men’s podium, with Drew Goldsack claiming the victory, followed by Jess Cockney finishing second and Graham Nishikawa in third. Goldsack was the fastest qualifier of...
November 12 Roundup: Check out Northug’s Custom Skis
Ski CenterNovember 12, 2010
–Norwegian superstar Petter Northug has his own customized pair of skis from Fischer, emblazoned with his name and his country’s flag. Check ’em out here—they’re reminiscent of the custom bikes made for professional cyclists. –The Norwegian support staff put on a waxing clinic for the media in advance of this weekend’s racing—they’re probably hoping to avoid what happened last year after the first race of the Olympics, where the press blamed the team’s wax staff...
USST Announces Coaches for 2011 JWC & U-23 Worlds
Ski CenterNovember 6, 2010
This trip marks one of the premier steps of the elite athlete and coach development pipeline in the U.S. The U.S. Ski Team is pleased to announce the 2011 staff: Matt Whitcomb, Trip Leader, Junior Head Coach U.S. Ski Team Bryan Fish, U23 Head Coach, U.S. Ski Team Randy Gibbs, Head Service, U.S. Ski Team Andrew Johnson, Service, University of Vermont Casey Fagerquist, Service, Alaska Pacific University Justin Beckwith, Service, Green Mountain Valley School Amy...
FIS Cross-Country News: The end of October is coming near. How would you summarize your off-season preparation? Kikkan Randall: It has been a very good season of preparation although quite different from the previous years. I did a bit more traveling which gave me the advantage of some new training partners in Europe and Canada, and overall it was very beneficial to see and do some different things. Because of more travel the summer and...
FIS Interviews Charlotta Kalla and Jean-Marc Gaillard
Ski CenterOctober 20, 2010
Charlotte Kalla is Sweden’s rising star of Cross-Country skiing. The 23 year-old youngster stormed into World Cup in 2006. A year later she captured her first World Cup podium in Beitostoelen. In 2008 she won Tour de Ski. She is Olympic Champion from Vancouver over 10 km Free. FIScrosscountry.com had a chance to talk to Charlotte in Ramsau. FIS Cross-Country News: Charlotte, media reported you would be back at Tour de Ski this year. Why...
NYSEF Whiteface Climb to the Castle Rollerski Race
Ski CenterSeptember 23, 2010
The New York Ski Educational Foundation and the Olympic Regional Development Authority announce the 4th annual NYSEF Whiteface Climb to the Castle Rollerski Race on Friday, October 8, 2010 at 8:30 am. The course starts at the Whiteface Toll Booth, climbing for 5 miles with an average 8% grade up the Whiteface Memorial Highway to the castle on the summit of Whiteface Mountain, New York’s 5th highest peak with an elevation of 4,867 ft. The...
Roller Skiing Season Nearing Finale
Ski CenterSeptember 15, 2010
The 2010 FIS Roller Skiing World Cup season will soon be over. Only two of a total of 13 competitions for each gender are left and they will take place in Thessaloniki, the second biggest city in Greece on 25th-26th September. The schedule foresees a mass start uphill competition and a sprint, both in free technique. The best chance for the ladies’ overall victory belong to the Norwegian Cross-Country skier Guro Stroem Solli who dominated...
U.S. Ski Team Officially Names 2010-2011 Squad
Ski CenterSeptember 14, 2010
SUN VALLEY, ID (Sept. 14) – World Championship medalist Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) was among a group of seven athletes, including six Olympians, named to the 2011 U.S. Cross Country Ski Team. Aspiring future stars in Sun Valley got a chance for a sneak preview of the squad this weekend when the U.S. Ski Team spent an afternoon with young athletes from the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Headlining the Team are three-time World Cup podium...
At the end there were (almost) only smiling faces. Magnus Moan was happy about his second victory in a row in the Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix and admitted that he had become more relaxed after the birth of his second child in April. Johannes Rydzek, the athlete with the most consistent performances in all four events, was all smiles: “I’m really very happy that I had such a good streak – one victory, three...