Best Thing You Could Do: Work Out!

Best Thing You Could Do: Work Out!

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One word (or is it two?): Work Out! Use the current situation, don't sit on your butt, stuck at home! Help yourself, help the whole skiing world! Let's start with obvious: skiing/ rollerskiing are non-contact sports, your chances of either contracting or spreading germs to a passerby on the tracks are virtual zero. Far less known is that one old adage was debunked recently - up to a point. It had always been assumed that strenuous exercise lowers one's body defences. Not so, say researchers at the University of Bath: they believe that endurance exercise actually does the opposite, it boosts your immunity, provided that exercise last around two hours! https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a25830518/fight-flu-cold-with-exercise/ Some regions or even whole countries felt they have to introduce a virtual curfew on its citizens. We won't…
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Breaking News: Quebec Races Also Cancelled, Season Is Over

Breaking News: Quebec Races Also Cancelled, Season Is Over

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The last remaining races of the FIS World Cup season, Sprint C and Sprint F are officially cancelled. After the United States and Canadian teams joined the Swedes, the Germans, the Brits and the Czechs who decided to withdraw yesterday, it was more like a formality. The Russians and the Slovenians said they were ready to run, but the FIS pulled the plug this morning. Johaug and Bolshunov won both the Distance Globe and the overall Big Crystal Globe, Svahn and Klaebo will receive the Sprint Globe. All by post, presumably.
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Swedish Sprint Express Makes Abrupt Turn Towards Home

Swedish Sprint Express Makes Abrupt Turn Towards Home

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The Quebec Sprints are no more for Svahn, Sundling, Dahlqvist, Ribom and Co. The Swedish team is packing & leaving Canada ASAP. " Due to the uncertainty regarding canceled flights and travel bans, we do not want to risk that our athletes will not be able to return from Canada after the weekend. That is why we have decided that they are going home already today " reads a press release issued by the team manager Daniel Fåhraeus. The big discovery of this season, 20 year old Linn Svahn currently leads the Sprint Cup table but could be overtaken now by Anamarija Lampic who is third in standings and is slated to run on the weekend as the races in Montreal as stillon - at least as this is being…
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Cognitive Dissonance, Now We Know How It Feels

Cognitive Dissonance, Now We Know How It Feels

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...Shops ordered shut for the first time in living memory, competitions cancelled yet skiers continue to report how much they enjoy their day out on the tracks and gear manufacturers keep on peddling their wares .... Instagram, that universal communication platform of our time would drive you crazy these days. Cognitive dissonance meets its classic description in real life for the first time. Some wear rubber gloves when they push elevator buttons, others are happily going on #coronabreak ( trending in the last days). Thar might be age-related but we're not sure. We'll leave it to bigger and allegedly staffed with smarter people media to worry about how the humanity would pull through the crisis. But would say with full responsibility that the last thing the cross country skiing ecosystem,…
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Klaebo Addresses His North American Fans

Klaebo Addresses His North American Fans

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We received a message from Johannes Klaebo to all his North American fans which we promptly convey: "I am very sorry that I did not get the opportunity to meet the Canadian and American cross country skiing fans! I hope to come back stronger next time the World Cup cross-country is organized there!"
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