Now that taxes are done, begin planning something fun – your Nordic season for 2010-11! The 2011 Birkie Registration is open to the first 8K participants . Plan out your season today. Go to www.birkie.com for registration information and form.
Bob & Nancy Gregg have announced a redesign and new format for The Master Skier publication. For 22 years the rag was a quarterly, color newsprint publication. For 2010 the publication will be an annual glossy 17×11 magazine.
Looking for your best jump start for the upcoming season and a great vacation as well? CXC now offers a summer camp for master skiers of all abilities and levels. This camp is filled with technique group instructions, individual lessons, presentations, moderate training, evening seminars, and a lake side evening barbecue with the CXC Elite [...]
The following is a post from CTV Olympics. This article raises some interesting questions regarding “home field advantage” at the Olympics. And if precedents are set, do they or should they extend to World Cup races. The Olympics in Turin allowed grinding machines, and as Sara Renner accurately points out, North American ski racers are [...]
From The Norway Post:
Recently retired, Norwegian Olympic and World Cup winner, cross country skier Tor Arne Hetland will train the German national cross country sprint team.
The German team consists of Daniel Heun and Josef Wenzl.
“They are both talented. The aim is to get them both as far as the sprint final at the Vancouver [...]
At the 2010 Winter Games, an estimated 600 athlete chaperones, blood collection officers, specialized doping control officers, and contracted laboratory staff will conduct upwards of 2,000 tests, including pre-competition and in-competition urine and blood tests,
