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06Aug 2018 by DS News Team

Why Blink Skifestival Provides Glimpse Into Future Of Skiing. And Reasons Why It Might Not Happen

A short intro for those yet uninitiated: there are international skiing competitions i.e. World Championships ( hello, Seefeld'2019!) and World Cup stages. Those are held - you guessed it - in the winter, when the Northern hemisphere gets some snow ( more of which later). Which means that the skiing as sport is suffering from a major competitive disadvantage in ever toughening field of battle for media attention and sponsorship - it's seasonal. [caption id="attachment_8222" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] Same ski stars, same poles & boots - the only difference are rolellerski. IDT Solutions models are developed with Ingvild Oestberg who is actually seen in this photo - and are identical for all the participants [/caption] You might adore Klaebo, Nillson, Ustiugov, Diggins or Pellegrino - but you naturally start forgetting about…

02Aug 2018 by DS News Team

19 Year Old Beats Olympic Champions At 60K. New Era Looms In Skiing?

Leaders, Newsfeed

"...The Times They Are a-Changin'...". We doubt Bob Dylan had meant cross country skiing when he sung it more half a century ago – but it reflects precisely what is happening in the sport right now. When Johannes Klaebo, Alexander Bolshunov and Denis Spitsov were running riot on the World Cup and the Olympic tracks last season , nobody failed to notice how shockingly young they were by the standards of endurance sport – twenty one , each of them with Bolshunov, the youngest of three, turning 21 only in December [caption id="attachment_7146" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] Bolshunov in November 2017. Only 20 - already winning[/caption] So while Bolshunov's victory at 60k at Blink Skifestival does not come as huge surprise -the man, after all, is the Olympics' silver medalist at 50k…

30Jul 2018 by DS News Team

China Goes Serious About XCSkiing, Enlists Marwe To Help ( Among Others)

Leaders, Newsfeed

Hold your breath There will be 1500 ski resorts and ice rinks and 300 million people participating in winter sports in the People's Republic of China by the year of 2025 Aptly named Promotion Plan of Mass Winter Sports and The National Construction Plan of Winter Sports Infrastructure say so. And if it say so - it very likely will become just so. OK, not all - not even the largest chunk of it - will be about cross country skiing. But even if a fraction of 1 trillion yuan or circa 100 000 000 000 Euros ( yep, that's one hundred billion Euros) that the Chinese winter sport market is projected to generate by the year of 2025, will go towards the narrow skis - that will be Huge,…

27Jul 2018 by DS News Team

Nancy Okoro, Balkan Cup Winner: How Did I Get My Abs And Why Are They So Important

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting

Nancy Okoro just turned 19 She is a Balkan Cup overall winner of this year racing for Bulgaria. The Daily Skier profiled a Bulgarian cross country skiing talent last year More relevant to the story of today, Nancy is one extremely fit individual representing what is rapidly becoming a must-have for an elite cross country skier in order to succeed – a body with a very high ratio of muscles & a low fat count. Ms Okoro says that started to work on her core muscles some 4 years ago and works specifically on her abs some 2-3 hours each week. For statistical purposes, Nancy is 169cm and weighs some 55 kilograms. Her latest muscle mass measurentns gave her 48.7 % - basically, off the charts , half of her…

25Jul 2018 by DS News Team

Arne Idland: Blink Skifestival Could Become Start Of FIS World Cup Season

Leaders, Newsfeed

Arne Idland is a legend. It's under his stewardship that the Norwegian biathlon, featuring great Ole Einar Bjørndalen & Co, became the world's best. Twice Idland was in charge of the Norwegian team this century - and twice it was on top of the podiums. Last year a 49 year old native of Sandnes resigned his commission as a top coach of the Norwegian national biathlon team to concentrate at his other job - that of the Sports Director for Blink Skifestival ( Idland is also a coach for Figgjo IL, local sports club) International experience and energy of Idland is in no small part a reason why a summer sporting event in relatively "non-skiing" part of Norway have gradually became an absolute must-go for the world's best skiers and…

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