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28May 2017 by DS News Team

Kikkan Randall Wins Ski To Sea XC Country Ski Leg

US International and ex-world champion in sprint Kikkan Randall won the 2017 Ski to Sea cross-country ski leg on Sunday, beating 300+ competitors, male or female on a 6km distance. Ski to Sea brands itself as the biggest relay race in the world. The race has seven legs – cross-country skiing, downhill skiing or snowboarding, running, road biking, canoeing, cyclocross and kayaking. Each year, at the end of May some 300+ teams participate in the 150 kilometer race that starts at Mt. Baker Ski Area in Whatcom County, Washington in the United States and goes, you guessed it, to the sea. This year's cross-country ski leg was in jeopardy for an alleged lack of entrants and the organizers have initially canceled it, causing a storm of protests from would-be participants…

24May 2017 by DS News Team

Ustiugov Might Run All Six Races in PyeongChang, Says Vyalbe

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Yelena Vyalbe, president of the Russian Cross Country Ski Federation has unveiled qualification criteria for making it to the Russian team for the Winter Olympic Games of 2018 [caption id="attachment_3632" align="alignnone" width="854" class="center"] Courtesy of Russian Ski Federation[/caption] There are some 60 ( sixty!) candidates with a realistic chance of going to Pyeongchang, according to Vyalbe, quoted by the TASS news agency, – possibly, the biggest pool of aspirants outside the Norwegian team The final list, however, would include only 10 women and 10 men. The Russian selection is complicated by the suspension of five leading skiers ( there are six – but one since retired). The Olympic champion of Sochi Alexander Legkov, world champion of Falun-2015 Maxim Vylegzhanin, as well as Evgeny Belov, Alexei Petukhov and Evgnenia Shapovalova are…

17May 2017 by DS News Team

Video of Therese Johaug Training in Sjusjøen Appears Online

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Therese Johaug wants everybody to know that she is training very, very hard for her comeback next season. Johaug's trainer, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, told the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet this week that Therese has become physically much stronger, both in upper body core and leg muscles. At 1.62 m and 46 kg, the Norwegian was indomitable throughout her skiing career on hilly terrain, while losing to competition on flat stretches of the trail. No more, it seems: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTqdoTmhMlO Before beating the competition in Pyeongchang, however, the 28 year old will have to convince the Court of Arbitration for Sport to allow her to participate in the Olympics. Johaug sat out the last season, being banned for using clostebol, a steroid, unintentionally. TOP PHOTO Courtesy of Theres Johauge Instagram johaugtherese

15May 2017 by DS News Team

Top Trainer Prefers Liechtenstein to Switzerland

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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…

12May 2017 by DS News Team

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Does Dubai, Wins

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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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