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07Dec 2019 by DS News Team

Team Sweden Talents Bench Is Endless : Meet New Stars

If Moa Lundgreen (l) and Emma Ribom are not household names for you yet, they soon will be. Both U23 athletes just knocked on the door of the super-elite dept. by finishing in Top 15 at @wclhmr skiathlon. How really deep is the Team Sweden talents' bench? Seems to be never ending - Lundgreen and Ribom were running today because Andersson and Karlsson are out with injuries!

19Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Bright Future Of XCSkiing : Introducing Karolina Kaleta

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Things to know about Karolina Kaleta: - at 17 (she turned 17 only last week), she is the youngest member of the " Super Squad" led by Aleksander Wierietielny and Justyna Kowalczyk where the best Polish female skiing talents are assembled. Their progress is astonishing and we fully expect this team to start seriously fighting for top podiums as of this year. ((Correction: Karolina is the 2d youngest. Hanna Popko is even younger)) - Karolina has older sister, Weronika Kaleta, 20, who is also part of the Super Squad. As she's younger, Karolina calls herself Kaletka or " little Kaleta" on Instagram. - Karolina is occasionally practicing biathlon as well as skiing. - Karolina is 180cm tall. - Karolina just reached a true elite level in her sporting career by…

05Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Swedes Get Massive Hike In Individual Salaries, But Team Achievement Bonus Is Gone

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Base salary of the national team athletes was hiked quite a bit in a recent decision by the Swedish ski federation, DN reports Charlotte Kalla, Stina Nilsson, Ebba Andersson & Co will from now on get SEK 200000/ year or around 18.700 Euros. Not exactly what country's top football or ice hockey players are used to but much better than previous SEK 120000/ year Apart from the base salary raise, there are also more bonuses: a winner of a FIS World Cup stage would take home SEK 50000, second place would bring 30 and third 20K. Previously only winners were paid. What's gone is a peculiar collective same-for-all bonus Swedish skiers were previously paid if they took 30 World Cup podiums between them. Not so much jämlikhet any longer?

26Oct 2019 by DS News Team

Finnish Riddle

Money & Finance, Newsfeed

World-class athletes running in the races broadcast on the national television with massive ratings and ever increasing interest from sponsors.... Sounds like an ideal Nordic skiing competition? Well, not so fast. Painstakingly, year after year, the Finnish Ski Association, working togeher with the country's national public broadcaster YLE, built a seemingly very local event, the Finnish Cup , into a television blockbuster , watched on TV by over half a million Finns. That's more than 10% of all adult population - massive ratings for cross country skiing! However, with the first stage of the Cup less than three weeks away, it's still totally unclear whether the popular event will be shown this year, Ilta-Sanomat reports A bone of contention is television rights. The Finnish Ski Association sold those rights to…

24Oct 2019 by DS News Team

1100 Hours Man Iivo Niskanen

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1100 hours in preparation for the season 2019/2020! That's how many hours of training Iivo Niskanen bagged, according to Iltalehti newspaper . No wonder the Finnish Red Bull looked so tired the last time our camera lense caught him -that was at the Blink Skifest in August. Even some teammates , according to Iltalehti, call that amount " masochistic ". Martin Sundby had reportedly done even more, around 1200 hours training a couple of seasons ago - be he has gone down to under 1000 hours recently, by his own admission.

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