18Jun 2019 by DS News Team
Top Skier Turns His Mishap Into Advertizing Tool – And We Love It

Top Skier Turns His Mishap Into Advertizing Tool – And We Love It

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Gleb Retyvikh is one of the world's top skiers who proved his mettle by winning a bronze at the World Championships in Seefeld this year. However,  his real moment of fame last season came during the World Cup stage in Otepaa in January.... ...About ten meters before the finish of Sprint's quarterfinals a 27 year old Russian did this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtOlbLJhWMN/ Spectacularly novel finishing touch immediately led to all sorts of #retivykhchallenge mems on social media ( do you your quick googling, some of them are actually quite fun) Lesser people would get upset but Retivykh have decided to use his newly found internet fame to promote his vary own apparel brand, GR [caption id="attachment_11858" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Where else to present a new "Retivykh Leap" collection than same very place where…
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26Jun 2017 by DS News Team
Devices And Gadgets We’d Love To Have – But Can’t As Yet

Devices And Gadgets We’d Love To Have – But Can’t As Yet

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Cross country skiing is a technical sport where both the results and the fun of participating benefits hugely from advances of technology ( unless you're a die-hard retro race fan). Sadly, the size of the market for cross country skiing is a shadow of its fancy cousin, alpine skiing – and much smaller than, say, running or biking. Which means the innovations are headed first to them, where the fatter profits are to be made. Let's take a look at some of the latest – and dream that one day we, "the real skiers", could get similar. 1/Recon Snow2 Manufacturer says: A powerful omnifuncional computer in compact form and heads-up display, that attaches inside an alpine ski helmet and projects the data direct-to-eye, in real time. Without obstructing one's point…
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21Jun 2017 by DS News Team
Most Successful Skier Ever Turned 50!

Most Successful Skier Ever Turned 50!

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Bjørn Dæhlie turned 50 this week! Amazingly, this news had very little play in the English language media – which is totally wrong & we try to fill that gap. The Norwegian made history in three different ways First, as an outstanding sportsman. In fact, the most outstanding of all of them, winter sports practitioners, with 8 Olympic and 9 world championship gold medals ( including relays) in cross country skiing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlFY6YwQEW8 Secondly, as a supremely developed individual - Dæhlie once measured a VO2 max of 96 ml/kg/min (  millilitres of oxygen per kilogram ) - unsurpassed world record for a decade until a cyclist Oscar Svensden measured a mind-boggling VO2 max of 97.5 a few years ago. Thirdly, Bjørn Dæhlie is the richest cross country skier ever – and thus a shining example to…
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20Jun 2017 by DS News Team
Doublepoling Rebel Who Took On FIS

Doublepoling Rebel Who Took On FIS

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Magnus Vesterheim is not quite a household name in the skiing world– yet. A 22-year old from Lillehammer, however, is an author a viral sensation, that was (and is) being discussed well after the season is over – and that has potentially wide repercussions for the future of cross country skiing competitions. But first things first. At the meeting a year ago FIS had decreed ( "decided" simply does not sound strong enough to describe the depth) that from now on , race officials, at their sole discretion, may designate clearly marked zones where no doublepoling is allowed during classical cross country skiing races i.e " no DP zones" “All nations agreed that we need to find a way to preserve the classic striding technique within classic skiing” Fasterskier.com then…
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