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09May 2017 by DS News Team

Pyeongchang Ticket Sales Are Sluggish So Far. Will the Rising Star of Kim Magnus Help?

Less than 10% of the tickets available for the cross country skiing events at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games are sold so far, the AFP news agency reports, quoting the Pyeongchang Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (POCOG) In the first round that opened on February 9th, exactly one year to go to the Games' opening, the tickets were sold only to the South Koreans, who were, clearly, much more interested in the sports where their country traditionally excels, such as speed skating and figure skating. The fact that the South Korea has one of the hottest up-and-coming stars of the cross-country skiing, an 18-year old Kim Magnus it its line-up, did not seem to affect the South Korean winter sport fans much so far. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQvDmQFB4lC Alpensia Cross-Country Centre has a capacity for 7500…

07May 2017 by DS News Team

Justyna Kowalczyk: Bring It On!

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Justyna Kowalczyk is back in the saddle and has started preparing for the Olympic season. Koniec obijania. Dzisiaj zaczęłam przygotowania na igrzysk! Niech się darzy! (The end of bumming around. Today I've began the preps for the (Olympic) Games. Bring it on!), the double Olympic champion informed her 21.4 thousand Twitter followers. Koniec obijania? Dzisiaj zaczęłam przygotowania na igrzysk! Niech się darzy✊✊✊ pic.twitter.com/p314g1GL6Z— Justyna Kowalczyk (@JuiceKowalczyk) May 3, 2017 When a Twitter fan asked whether the beginning of May is considered to be an early or late start of the season for a professional skier, Kowalczyk replied that the photo caption was a metaphor, and that she was already training but the first "official" training camp began last week at Poronin, a ski resort village in Poland close to the…

06May 2017 by DS News Team

Johaug Kicks Off Her Preparations For New Season

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Therese Johaug wants the world to know that she might be somewhat down – but certainly not out. A 28 year old Olympic and world champion just shared with 336.000 of her Instagram followers a photo of herself in a company of her coach Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass ( silver medalist of the OGs in Calgary in 1988), her personal ski waxer Snorre Haugland and, of course, her brother and training partner Karstein Johaug. [embed]http://www.instagram.com/p/BTo1Tr7hL4_/[/embed] Starter en ny sesong med guttene mine på Sjusjøen:-) Says cheeky caption under the photo ( Starting a new season with my boys at Sjusjøen ? ) Being back on skis at the beginning of May is likely making a Norwegian the first elite skier in the world to come back to snow after a traditional…

06May 2017 by DS News Team

Meet Ludde, World’s Fastest Skier

Leaders, Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting

..The world record had been beaten twice already, that evening in Hamar. First, the Under 23 world champion in sprint, Lucas Chanavat, a Frenchman, beat the record time in qualification (11:37) – only to be bettered in the semifinal heat by a Norwegian, Ludvig Søgnen Jensen, who set the new world record, clocking in at 11:29. What, you've never heard of the world records in cross country skiing? It's because you've never seen a new (and rapidly growing) competitive discipline – the super-sprint, with a distance of 100 meters over flat terrain. It might not be an official, FIS-recognized, competition distance yet, but the list of participants was nothing like a local get-together – more like a "who's-who" in both ski and rollerski sprint. ...In the finals, four of the…

02May 2017 by DS News Team

Pellegrino: “It’s like a relaxing spa outdoors”

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"It's like a relaxing spa outdoors. In this society that goes faster and faster, I recommend everyone to go to the mountains, surrounded by nature, to slow the pace, with a pair of skis" Not, perhaps, what you would expect from the world's top ski sprinter but thus speaks Federico Pellegrino. A 26 year old from Aosta has appeared on the pages on the Italian edition of the Vanity Fair magazine last week to talk about his life and career. https://www.vanityfair.it/sport/storie-sport/2017/04/29/federico-pellegrino-oltre-agli-sci-ce-di-piu There the leader of the Italian cross country ski team talks about his path to the world championship crown in Lahti this year. https://www.instagram.com/p/BTWkdo-g6Yy Pellegrino singles out influence of his girlfriend, a fellow Team Italia sprinter Greta Laurent, as the most important factor in his success: " She straightened…

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