For those who missed fhe message: Swedish Bliz has just been acquired by Essilor Luxottica, the global mastodon with annual revenue of some 25 billion dollars. More importantly for xcskiers, Luxottica owns Oakley too. One can argue about shapes and colors, but Oakley lenses are leagues ahead of competitors…
 We travel to Alps to find out that cross country skiing has truly become elite sportCross country skiing has become an elite sport. Nothing illustrates it more in 2023 than this object of desire: After two years of Covid-related travel restrictions the snowy tracks…  Russians – what gear do they use nowIt was interesting to assess what gear the best Russian skiers use these days. The western sponsors have abandoned them, they say. Or did they? We don’t know and we…  First snow laid on world championship tracks of PlanicaFirst snow was laid on the tracks where the 2023 Nordic World Ski Championships will take place. Naturally, not by Mother Nature, but by the good people of Planica Nordic…  Arne Idland wants to change World Cup , drasticallyArne Idland is а name everyone knows and respects in both international xcskiing and biathlon. In the last decade or so quite a few previously big events in snow sports…  The BLINK Skifestival is back in full strength this year after last two editions hampered but not broken by COVIDThe BLINK at the beginning of August is one of those rare stories worth talking about, year after year. Why do we at The Daily Skier pay so much attention…  Valentina Vuerich makes history by signing with Team NorwayVale is special, there is probably no one else like her on the World Cup circuit: We profiled Ms.Vuerich more than two years ago on dailyskier.com : “..a former athlete…  Xcskiing 2022 – a list of woes goes longDo you like understatements? Here’s one: The times ain’t easy for the international cross country skiing. If you read this, you most likely have your own reasons to think so….  Was there ever such a sad FIS World Cup season as this one?Was there ever such a screwed up FIS World Cup season as this one? Two WC stages scrapped- ostensibly – because of Covid, while every other snow sport was happily…  Ustiugov deserves Olympic medal more than anybody else in cross-country skiing – as a compensation for the 2018 Olympics that never happened in his career – Markus CramerThere will be an Olympic debut like no other in the Olympic Sprint competitions on Tuesday. Well, technically Sergey Ustiugov had his first Olympic race 8 years ago in Sochi… |
