27Sep 2018 by DS News Team
Meet Andorran Skier Who Dreams Of Winning Tour De Ski

Meet Andorran Skier Who Dreams Of Winning Tour De Ski

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Andorra, population 77000, now has its first world class skier. Meet Irineu Esteve Altimiras, 22 Irineu might not yet have podiums to his name but man, he's close, very close ! This summer the young Andorran finished 18th at the Lysebotn climb, that highlight of Blink Skifestival. To put it in perspective - right behind Olympic champion Iivo Niskanen and well ahead of, say, Maurice Manificat and Denis Spitsov, both world class "climbers". We absolutely had to catch up with Irineu before the season kick-off - How long you have been doing cross country skiing, who brought you into it and, most importantly, why did you choose to do that not exactly the most popular sport in the Pyrenees? I started with alpine skiing when I was about 12 years old,…
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13Sep 2018 by DS News Team
Andy Newell: We Might Have To Change Legal Altitude Limit For Competing & Other Musings Of Famed Ski Sprinter

Andy Newell: We Might Have To Change Legal Altitude Limit For Competing & Other Musings Of Famed Ski Sprinter

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..One reason every ski-related resource in the world is writing these days about Andy Newell's new endeavor is how well liked the man is on an international ski circuit. With a career spanning some 15+ years, 8 ( eight!) World Championships and four Olympics, Newell is a true living legend, particularly in ski sprint that was in its infancy at the beginning of the century when the American started. With the last Olympics over & done with, a 34 year old native of Bennington, VT is moving to the next phase in life Nordic Team Solutions is what Newell's new coaching project is called, the one that will grow both future Nordic stars and the sport's popularity. The Daily Skier caught up with the man to talk about his skiing…
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15Aug 2018 by DS News Team
IDT. Possibly Most Talked About Brand In Cross Country Skiing This Year.

IDT. Possibly Most Talked About Brand In Cross Country Skiing This Year.

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If there is a story of rapid rise in the world of cross country skiing that should be the one of IDT rollerskis. Mere three-four years ago practically nobody heard of the brand – but now, in 2018, it looks like anybody who is anybody in the world of skiing is being seen training and/or competing on IDT skis. Both Norwegian xcski and biathlon teams, Russian xcski team, personally Charlotte Kalla, Federico Pellegrino – the list of IDT users is long & growing. Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Martin Sundby and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo lent their names directly to the brand promotion – and , if you read the interview on the Daily Skier , it's not just names – but hours of their work as well. We have looked into the…
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02Aug 2018 by DS News Team
19 Year Old Beats Olympic Champions At 60K. New Era Looms In Skiing?

19 Year Old Beats Olympic Champions At 60K. New Era Looms In Skiing?

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"...The Times They Are a-Changin'...". We doubt Bob Dylan had meant cross country skiing when he sung it more half a century ago – but it reflects precisely what is happening in the sport right now. When Johannes Klaebo, Alexander Bolshunov and Denis Spitsov were running riot on the World Cup and the Olympic tracks last season , nobody failed to notice how shockingly young they were by the standards of endurance sport – twenty one , each of them with Bolshunov, the youngest of three, turning 21 only in December [caption id="attachment_7146" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] Bolshunov in November 2017. Only 20 - already winning[/caption] So while Bolshunov's victory at 60k at Blink Skifestival does not come as huge surprise -the man, after all, is the Olympics' silver medalist at 50k…
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30Jul 2018 by DS News Team
China Goes Serious About XCSkiing, Enlists Marwe To Help ( Among Others)

China Goes Serious About XCSkiing, Enlists Marwe To Help ( Among Others)

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Hold your breath There will be 1500 ski resorts and ice rinks and 300 million people participating in winter sports in the People's Republic of China by the year of 2025 Aptly named Promotion Plan of Mass Winter Sports and The National Construction Plan of Winter Sports Infrastructure say so. And if it say so - it very likely will become just so. OK, not all - not even the largest chunk of it - will be about cross country skiing. But even if a fraction of 1 trillion yuan or circa 100 000 000 000 Euros ( yep, that's one hundred billion Euros) that the Chinese winter sport market is projected to generate by the year of 2025, will go towards the narrow skis - that will be Huge,…
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