FIS World Cup

01Feb 2020 by DS News Team

New Rossignol X-IUM S Are Smashing Podiums This Year (But You Probably Did Not Know)

[caption id="attachment_14617" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Early December 2019. Lillehammer. Athletes are long gone from the tracks to rest before their races, but there is no respite for Simon Caprini and Roddy Darragon, Rossignol racing managers...[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14615" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Caprini is cheerfully smiling into the camera but he has an important hurdle to pass tomorrow and is - probably - a little nervous [/caption] [caption id="attachment_14616" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Laying down on the snow are all-new S line skate racing skis, product of months of hard labor by Rossignol designers and testers. They are camouflaged to look as the current version but contain several important innovations[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14609" align="alignnone" width="1920"] ..24 hours later it's time to crack open a bottle of champagne : Rossignol's biggest star of the last seasons, Alex Bolshunov…

28Jan 2020 by DS News Team

Closer Look: Madshus Redline 3.0 Skis

Gear News, Newsfeed

[caption id="attachment_14512" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Per Wiik, marketing manager at Madshus, presents Norwegian company's latest racing skis, Redline 3.0 [/caption] [caption id="attachment_14513" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Redline 3.0 Skate will come in two flavors: stiffer F2 ( left on this photo) for hard-packed snow and F3 ( right) that is for everything else. The latter one has much shorter "race groove"[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14514" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Wiik describes 3.0s as "being more dynamic" compared to predecessor. That is achieved through increasing the amount of carbon-fiber sheets throughout the length of the ski. Also note new design/colors that are quite reminiscent of Madshus of old [/caption] [caption id="attachment_14510" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Classic Redline 3.0 will come in Cold and Warm iterations [/caption] [caption id="attachment_14515" align="alignnone" width="1920"] And - last but not the least - Madshus is…

23Dec 2019 by DS News Team

Skiing & Media 101

Money & Finance, Newsfeed

We get questions that made us think it is worth explaining the basics of how media covers cross country skiing, what's the difference between writing, photo and television reporting and why does it all matter at the end. ....Once upon a time, when the xcskiing was a sport of bearded woodcutters, it was common for newspapers and television stations to just send their reporters to take a few pictures of them Nordic heroes in action and to do an interview at the finish line. Well, things changed since then - and rather radically. These days, the media allowed ( accredited ) at the event is firmly divided into two categories: paying and non-paying type. For reasons of political correctness it's rarely actually called that but it does not change the…

16Sep 2019 by DS News Team

Some Ski As Work – Others Work To Ski

Leaders, Newsfeed

If you were to look at Top 50 of the FIS World Cup rankings, 99% of skiers you'd find there are true pros. In a sense that their main occupation in life is just that - to ski. It is structured and financed very differently from country to country and there are, clearly, different levels of incomes. But broadly they all earn from skiing. And then there's remaining 1%. If you study them closer, you realize with some surprise that they are actually...amateurs. Not in a sense that they are training less seriously, no. But they are actually go earn in order to ski, having a proper job (or two. or several) that pays primarily for race-related travel and training camps. Most ( but by no means all ) of…

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