15May 2017 by DS News Team
Top Trainer Prefers Liechtenstein to Switzerland

Top Trainer Prefers Liechtenstein to Switzerland

Leaders, Newsfeed, Trivia
This is the Olympic season, and most top coaches dream of the medals their racers will win in PyeongChang. Not so the senior trainer of the Swiss cross-country ski team, Albert "Bärti" Manhart. The 50-year-old Swiss was a junior trainer of Dario Cologna and has progressed with him, so to speak, to end up in charge of the whole Swiss team, both male and female. With Cologna in shape and the up-and-coming stars such as Nathalie von Siebenthal and Nadine Fähndrich growing in strengh year by year, the Team Swiss had a very good shot at the medals at the Olympics. Still does – but now without Manhart. "A certain fatigue has set in. I feel burnt out, need some pause and rest." he told the Swiss newspaper Blick upon…
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14May 2017 by DS News Team
Ski Art Erotica

Ski Art Erotica

Newsfeed, Trivia
For decades Pierre-Laurent Brenot worked at the heart of the French fashion industry, cooperating with brands such as Saint-Laurent, Nina Ricci, Rochas, Dior, Hermès , until in late 1940s he found a different calling. In the next 15 years Brenot became one the world's most recognizable affichiste – poster artist – of all times. Brenot's works were colorful, daring – and unapogetically sexy, earning him the title of "le "père de la pin-up française »/ the father of the "French pin-up". Some of the ads look suprisingly modern – at least the models do. Look at this promotion of the French motor oil & lubricants firm Bardahl, done more than half a century ago! But we are the skiing site and, therefore, shall concentrate on the Frenchman's two known art-pieces related to  le ski de fond:…
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13May 2017 by DS News Team
It’s Official: Run Harder = Live Longer

It’s Official: Run Harder = Live Longer

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
Your trainer had always told you to "try harder to get better" What she/he, probably, did not add is "...and to live longer" Now the good scientists of the Brigham Young University are filling that gap by formally declaring thus: "...you may be able to slow one type of aging -- the kind that happens inside your cells. As long as you're willing to sweat." The key findings of the study, lead by Exercise science professor Larry Tucker are as follow: - Adults with high physical activity levels have telomeres with a biological aging advantage of nine years over those who are sedentary, and a seven-year advantage compared to those who are moderately active. - To be considered highly active, women had to engage in at least 30 minutes of…
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12May 2017 by DS News Team
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Does Dubai, Wins

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Does Dubai, Wins

Leaders, Newsfeed, Trivia
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo and his "posse" want you to know that there's cross country skiing to be done on the Arabian Peninsula. In a colorful company of fellow Team Norge racer Niklas Dyrhaug, an Olympic gold medalist in Nordic Combined Jørgen Nyland Graabak as well as fellow Trønderne Mathias Rundgreen and Magnus Stensås, the Prince of Nordic Skiing has descended upon the snow covered slopes of Ski Dubai, one the biggest indoor skiing facilities in the world And did we forget Robin Bryntesson – the man himself, the skier, who doesn't need introductions any more?? It was, of course, Bryntesson who shared a short clip of what 5 Norwegians and one Swede were up to in Dubai https://www.instagram.com/p/BT-d1onB1rP We believe it's the first time Ski Dubai saw real, proper, trendy…
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11May 2017 by DS News Team
Tigers Are (Sadly) Out, Snow Leopards Are In

Tigers Are (Sadly) Out, Snow Leopards Are In

Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport, Trivia
...It's been a month since Thomas Alsgaard have suddenly announced the end of the Team LeasePlan better known as Tigers for their colorful racesuits Now a Russian ski team aims to bring felines back on the skiing trail. Meet Team Snow Leopards. The Russian outfit does not yet have world's top skiers in its ranks, neither does it have a strong corporate sponsor to support its ambitions - yet. They do, however, have an interesting, novel approach to funding and building a community. The snow leopard or  Uncia uncia ( also known as Panthera uncia) is one of the most endangered big cats – only some 4000 to 8000 survive in the wild. It lives in the snowy mountains of Central Asia with their Russian, Siberian population being one of…
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