Gjerdalen Takes Over Long-distance Team, Two Maverick Skiers To Assist Him

Gjerdalen Takes Over Long-distance Team, Two Maverick Skiers To Assist Him

Leaders, Money & Finance, Newsfeed
Tord Asle Gjerdalen is back in the saddle - and he's got two major names to assist him. A 37 year old Norwegian who, among other achievements, won Marcialonga three years in a row , in 2015, 2016 and 2017, but who was made redundant by Team Ragde Eiendom in April this year has announced his arrival to the long-distance ski outfit "Team XPND Fuel of Norway" It clear that Gejerdalen will be the driving force and the main sponsors ' attraction ( we don't know if Ray Ban has signed but they totally should! ) of the Team XPND. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen and Eirik Brandsdal are presented as new "mentors" of the team. Not sure what sort of mentoring they could deliver but presence of such freshly retired household…
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Art Of Feeding (And Keeping Hydrated) Your Athlete

Art Of Feeding (And Keeping Hydrated) Your Athlete

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
The Daily Skier reporter has spent a day with an Assistant Coach of the Russian ski team Egor Sorin during Toblach- Cortina 50k race last weekend, part of Visma Ski CLassics Series - and gleaned an invaluable insight into how the team of technical personal, aides and helpers work to keep "their" skiers fed, hydrated - and ready to win Follow the story through Instagram posts & captions https://www.instagram.com/p/Be5TNxaBJhb https://www.instagram.com/p/Be5XtU6BIfa/?taken-by=daily_skier https://www.instagram.com/p/Be5_j3whDf4/?taken-by=daily_skier https://www.instagram.com/p/Be7U5yhBy7P/?taken-by=daily_skier https://www.instagram.com/p/Be8PR9Ehw4A/?taken-by=daily_skier To refresh your memory: Ustiugov, for whom it was the first- ever Ski Classics race, have managed to stay with the leading group till the very end but lost a few centimeters to eventual winner Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Andreas Nygaard ( Ilya Chernousov was disqualified for obstruction)
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