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21Oct 2017 by DS News Team

Martin Sundby Names Nation Essential For Cross Country Skiing Development

Martin Sundby reveals what he considers to be the Golden Age of cross country skiing - and how to bring it back " Cross-country skiing was worth the most in Kroner ( i.e. in money) and in viewership at the time when Tobias Angerer, René Sommerfeldt and Axel Teichmann were grabbing the podiums. Then the international cross-country had a great time" https://www.instagram.com/p/BRnkfYCF7vN In interview with a Norwegian Dagbladet a 33 year old World Cup winner makes no bones about what would need to be done to bring that blessed time back: "The cross country skiing had a great position when Germany was on the top. The best thing that could happen now would be a German winning the World Cup . Internationally, we as a sport are not as strong anymore and…

26Jun 2017 by DS News Team

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

Gear News, Money & Finance, Newsfeed

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…

21Jun 2017 by DS News Team

Most Successful Skier Ever Turned 50!

Leaders, Money & Finance, Newsfeed

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…

05May 2017 by DS News Team

UpDated: Dude, Where Is My SkiBee?

Gear News, Newsfeed

What we wrote last year: The prize for one of the more original innovations in cross country skiing goes to Donald Steeg, a "tool and dye maker from the Detroit area," and, by all accounts, an avid skier. Back in 1970, Steeg had unveiled his SkiBee, "a propulsion unit for motorized skiing". Equipped with an eight-horsepower engine and a 24-inch propeller, SkiBee could accelerate the skier along the trail at the speed human propulsion is not quite capable of - neither then nor now. The Detroit Free Press newspaper put it thus at the time: "Now It's the Super Fan To Aid the Uphill Skier! If you have $300, earplugs, a strong back, and the urge to go your own way, call Steeg Industries in Redford Township. The company sold…

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