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22Dec 2019 by DS News Team

World Cup Stage Fail?

Planica is a lovely place, but this weekend's World Cup stage was a fail. The weather played its part making skiing look like a form of OCR competition, but even in the best of conditions the very idea of having it where it was held and when it was held raises a lot of questions, among them: - What's the point of having it in the country/ region that is lukewarm to cross country skiing despite very impressive performance by its (mostly female side of) team? Ski jumping events in the area draw tens of thousands of spectators, ditto for alpine skiing - but cross country ones are, sadly, not and shall not in a foreseeable future. - What's the point of scheduling Planica stage two days ahead of Christmas?…

14Dec 2019 by DS News Team

Miracles Do Happen: Linn Svahn’s Incredible World Cup Debut

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Just think about it: a 20 year old Linn Svahn debuts at the World Cup. Naturally, she is outside the elite seeded group and thus starts her qualification 34d. With that starting position you are considered very good to make it to Top 30, extremely good if you make it to the Semis. To go on winning the stage is simply unheard of, never happened. Miracles do happen and today's one is called Linn Svahn.

12Dec 2019 by DS News Team

New Rossignol X-IUM Carbon Premium Boots Spotted Testing

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Rossignol continues to test its newest design of X-IUM Carbon Premium boots that are supposed to replace the current flagship model in shops next year. Unlike Salomon that split its S/LABs offerings with Classic debuting last season and Skate version just spotted , Rossignol looks to be preparing to offer both C and S at the same time. As with all manufacturers of top boots, Rossignol employs an expertise of both in-house specialists - and top World Cup athletes in fine-tuning its next podium weapon. We doubt the boots will retain its black-on-black appearance in the final version - Rossignol's recent magenta look gained the French company a lot of fans. [caption id="attachment_13942" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Skate prototype looks like this and seen on the feet of Simon Caprini, the firm's…

09Dec 2019 by DS News Team

News Just In: Frida Karlsson Benched By Doctors , Won’t Compete

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World's best young skier and absolute princess of social media who rocket-fast became a face of cross country skiing, has been benched for undetermined period of time - and for unspecified health-related issue. SVT, Swedish national television simply stated that doctors found her " unfit to compete". Frida is a second uber-elite skier to stop competing this season after Ingvild Oestberg was sidelined with very similar and super-vague explanation: health is not good enough to compete. Now the comparisons between two extraordinary skiers are unavoidable.

09Dec 2019 by DS News Team

PSYOP Comes To Skiing?

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If you think it was Johannes Klaebo or Alex Bolshunov who the fans who lined up the tracks of Birkebeineren ski stadium on Saturday were cheering on the most - think again. Nope, it was Vebjoern Turtveit who has totally stole the show with his choice of ergh...racing apparel. Moreover, we hereby postulate that wearing something like that in a mass start is nothing but a page from psychological ops or PSYOPs ! Surely no skier who follows a mighty 25 year old Norwegian on uphill could think of anything else but those, you know palms or whatever else is pictured. Or just laugh hysterically. Learn from the best, kids: Turtviet came strong 12th in the race that featured the world best. They probably did not see.

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