Oberhof

07Oct 2020 by DS News Team

Katerina Janatova: My COVID Story

[caption id="attachment_17101" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Katerina Janatova, 23, Czechia, currently #17 in the world in FIS Sprint ratings, #47 in distance ratings [/caption] This is the very first known case of Covid in elite skiing. Katerina has agreed to share her personal story here to highlight the fact that some 10 months into the pandemics, nobody still knows how the Covid affects elite athletes' health and performance. In her own words: ...Everything happened quite fast. We were on a camp in Oberhof and I had a training session on skis, where I felt pretty good. During that night I knew something wasn’t right, I started having a fever and a horrific headache. At first I thought it could be from changing temperatures but a few other people on the team also…

11Sep 2020 by DS News Team

Skiing Of Tomorrow: Indoor, With Wall Projection Panels Instead Of Dreary Looking Walls

Gear News, Newsfeed

We have two revelations to make: A - in the foreseeable future most of cross country skiing will move indoors. Yes, indoors - into those purpose-built ski tunnels. If you're optimistic enough to think otherwise - or lucky enough to live in certain areas in the mountains - our compliments. The rest of the humanity, spurred by the (correct) assumption that cross country skiing is the next-to-none cardiovascular and strength-building activity, will have to practice it indoors. B - skiing in tunnels as a way of receiving pleasure currently sucks. First ski tunnels were built far away from big cities but close to traditional training centers: Vuokatti, Torsby and Oberhof all fit that description. Practical? Check! Convenient? Depends on your idea of convenient, but generally no. No more. Toksovo is…

31Jul 2020 by DS News Team

We Talk To Victoria Carl, Who Turns 25 Today

Leaders, Newsfeed

Victoria Carl had a thunderous entry to the international skiing as a youngster: a few collected so many medals, including 5 golds, at the junior leve (including the Youth Olympics, JWM and U23). The skiing fans held their breath half-fearing , half-hoping for Victoria's dominant entry to the "grown up world"... The triumphant march hasn't just quite happened yet although Victoria's 5th, 6th and 4th finishes at the World Championships in Seefeld left no one in doubt about the powerful Thuringhian's abilities. Today Victoria turns 25, the age of wisdom in the modern sking - and is looking forward to a domestic World Championships next year. We crossed paths with Ms.Carl earlier this month: The main goal for the Oberstdorf 2021 is a medal in relay and/ or team sprint.…

05Jul 2019 by DS News Team

Skiers, July Shirtless Edition

Leaders, Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting

Yeah, because it's very hot to wear anything covering a torso. But also because the elite skiers these days have bodies so well conditioned that Myron of Eleutherae would beg them to pose for one of his sculptures were he to live today. Remember, the ancient Greeks honored the athletic body as a symbol of extreme discipline, tenacity and overall civilizational superiority. Living twenty five centuries after talking about superiority of any kind would be uncouth, of course... So, how about calling them a "source of inspiration / object of emulation" for the rest of us? These are the skiers' bodies honed and shaped by hundreds of hours of extreme physical hard work [caption id="attachment_12019" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Ivan Kirillov[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12017" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Evgeny Belov[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12014" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Andrey…

21Sep 2017 by DS News Team

Aline Who Trains For PyeongChang And Who Never Gives Up

Leaders, Newsfeed

When you get tired, when you get bored, when you get too comfy in your bed in the morning to come out to train – think of Aline Rocha and how she deals with problems, frustrations and barriers in life. ....As a teenager, the 26-year-old Brazilian was not interested in sports. "I was always shy, I did not like physical activity." In 2006, when she was 15, a car accident left her paraplegic - but took her into the world of Parathletics Coming to the home Paralympics in Rio in 2016, Aline was already one of the top ranking marathoners in T54 class and was considered to be a real medal contender. The race didn't quite go her way – still, Aline finished in a respectable 10th Place. After that,…

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