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30Jun 2017 by DS News Team

10 Reasons To Add Rollerskiing To Your Life

...Seen those men and women with bodies of athletes and stamina of ostrich? Those are pro cross country skiiers. What's the secret of their remarkable physical shape? Well, there are many – they ski, they bike, they run cross country, the lift weights – but probably the biggest part of their training is spent doing something that many still find exotic – they rollerski! We are not preaching here to already converted – it is out firm belief that those who tried rollerskiing, shall never stop coming back to it. For those fortunate ones, however, who are yet to experience one of the biggest pleasures of their lives – but don't quite know it yet, here are 10 Reasons To Add Rollerskiing To Your Life, plain & simple 1/ the…

13Jun 2017 by DS News Team

Incredible Story of Fern Cates & Her Love of Skiing

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Fern Cates' story is one of a kind. A fourteen year old from Bridgnorth, United Kingdom first found out what cross country skiing looks like watching the Vancouver Olympics on TV. UK's Midlands is hardly a sort of place that is natural habitat of a cross country skier – but Fern had made up her mind. It sounds incredible, but it took Ms. Cates only 6 years from the very first 'taster session' on rollerski as a gift for her 15th birthday to becoming a full member of the Senior British Nordic Ski Team . Together with Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young, among the others, Fern was wearing Team GB colours at the Lahti World Championships earlier this year. The Daily Skier spoke to Fern Cates about her training, her…

18May 2017 by DS News Team

Ski-Perfect Stomach, Spring Edition

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It's springtime, officially, which means the world skiing elites are wrapping up their holidays and returning to the tracks. Mostly, snow tracks, wherever they can be found mid-May. Some, like A Norwegian Lahti golden medalist in relay, Niklas Dyrhaug, however, appear to be combining work and pleasure, by improving their balance and upper core muscles. There's a visible abundance of the latter in this photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT5-oU9htOZ Team Sweden's Sofia Henriksson expects the viewers to comment on both her V1 and V2 skating technique. A well deserved Instagram Like from us, Sofia! https://www.instagram.com/p/BUFe_nFB1Fi Meanwhile, a fellow Swede and a member of all-female Team Ski Pro Am, Hedda Bangman, firmly believes that the bikini is the most weather-appropriate training outfit for the May snow in Åre. https://www.instagram.com/p/BUEfVefFQR1 Lovise Heimdal, Norway U23 team…

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…

14May 2017 by DS News Team

Ski Art Erotica

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For decades Pierre-Laurent Brenot worked at the heart of the French fashion industry, cooperating with brands such as Saint-Laurent, Nina Ricci, Rochas, Dior, Hermès , until in late 1940s he found a different calling. In the next 15 years Brenot became one the world's most recognizable affichiste – poster artist – of all times. Brenot's works were colorful, daring – and unapogetically sexy, earning him the title of "le "père de la pin-up française »/ the father of the "French pin-up". Some of the ads look suprisingly modern – at least the models do. Look at this promotion of the French motor oil & lubricants firm Bardahl, done more than half a century ago! But we are the skiing site and, therefore, shall concentrate on the Frenchman's two known art-pieces related to le ski de fond:…

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