16Nov 2017 by DS News Team
Some Of World’s Best Skiers In Gällivare. Photoessay

Some Of World’s Best Skiers In Gällivare. Photoessay

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Just take a look at the world's best skiers training on perfect but extremely demanding tracks of Gällivare ahead of the races on Friday, Saturday and Sunday A picture is worth a thousand words. Enjoy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bbj-Qv5hCwF https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkQhq8hJIx https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkTYPXhFY3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkVAmoBG-E https://www.instagram.com/p/Bbj19fth-dl https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkSpPkBI0Q
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15Nov 2017 by DS News Team
Gällivare Premiere: Skiing Stars Gather In Swedish Lapland

Gällivare Premiere: Skiing Stars Gather In Swedish Lapland

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BbhTEsnhqA7/ "We never had such a strong line-up of participants like we have this year!", the organizer of the Gällivare Premiere, Stefan Nieminen, can't hide his satisfaction. He – and the team he runs – also look very tired from having to work from 5AM in the morning till 8PM at night to to make the competitions. It's not easy to prepare the tracks fit for Olympic and world champions. https://www.instagram.com/p/BbiJKiCBtJP/ Out of 21.000 cubic meters of farmed snow that were stored from last year only some 14.000 have survived the unsually rainy summe of Swedish Lapland. But that's was just enough to lay crucial parts of the track – and then Mother Nature helped the last moment with a snowfall. The Olympic champions Marcus Hellner of Sweden ( after…
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10Nov 2017 by DS News Team
Part II Of Keeping Up With World Best Skiers: Team United Bakeries

Part II Of Keeping Up With World Best Skiers: Team United Bakeries

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… In Part II of Team United Bakeries profile ( see Part I here) the team members talk about their training methods, what sort of money are there in the professional skiing as well as share their views on how to grow a popularity of skiing in the world – and pretty much everything in between. All answers represent common team opinion ( when and if opinions are split, it is clearly marked as such) The conversation(s) took place over several evenings during the joint rollerski camp on Mallorca at the end of October Just to remind you that in the season of 2017/18 Team United Bakeries 2016-2017 are: Tore Bjoerseth Berdal John Kristian Dahl Stian Hoelgaard Astrid Øyre Slind Torleif Syrstad plus Team Director Bernhard Ronning, former competitive ski…
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09Nov 2017 by DS News Team
IOC Suspends Second Russian Olympic Champion In One Week But Russia Gets To Keep Golden Medal

IOC Suspends Second Russian Olympic Champion In One Week But Russia Gets To Keep Golden Medal

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The situation with the Olympic doping in cross country skiing is getting more and more difficult to comprehend. Last week Alexander Legkov had lost his Olympic Golden medal for the 50k race thus – formally – ceding the title to the second placed Maxim Vylegzhanin, both of Russia. But not for long. Because today the IOC's Oswald Commission had disqualified Vylegzhanin as well – and then the Golden medal goes to...Ilia Chernousov of Russia, who came third. How does this bode with the allegations of the "Russian state sponsored doping program"? Was it only for certain athletes on the Russian team, but not for the others? The IOC decision appears to be based almost exclusively on  the so-called McLaren Report, which does not seem to explain or even address "the…
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03Nov 2017 by DS News Team
UpDated: Rollerski Mallorca And Keeping Up With World Best Skiers

UpDated: Rollerski Mallorca And Keeping Up With World Best Skiers

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UPDATE Sept. 2018 ...Kind of hard to believe, but almost a year has flown by since Team United Bakeries director Bernhard Rønning and the boss of Rollerski Mallorca, Manu Rullan came up with the idea as brilliant as it is simple: Allow amateur skiers into a professional skiing team camp. To train, live and even eat their meals together with some of the planet's best long distance skiers: Tore Bjorseth Berdal, Stian Hoelgaard, Astrid Øyre Slind, Torleif Syrstad and, of course, triple Vasaloppet winner John Kristian Dahl. Team United Bakeries had since become Team Koteng. But the idea really took off. This October Rønning & Rullan cordially invite skiers to join them on island of Mallorca again in late October for one-of-a-kind experience. And no, this is not an advertorial.…
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