Seefeld-2019

09Apr 2019 by DS News Team

Russian A-Team for 2019/20 Has 40 Athletes, More Than Any Competitor

The Russian Ski Federation has made public the national team's training groups for the season of 2019/2020. No fundamental changes - boss of the Russian skiing Elena Vyalbe & her coaches believe in internal competition within the Team Russia so for the upcoming season it will continue to be based around training groups led by Markus Cramer, Yuri Borodavko and Oleg Perevozchikov that are equal in status. Egor Sorin will carry on on leading the fourth group that is often seen as a sort of a farm-club but only because the average age of his skiers is lower than the rest. There is no official division on A and B teams. Each coach leads the team of specialists including at least one junior trainer, analyst, doctor, massage therapist, technicians etc.…

27Feb 2019 by DS News Team

That Word Again: Doping

Leaders, Newsfeed

Not what anybody wanted to hear again, but here it goes: The Austrian police reps announced on Wednesday that they "succeeded in smashing an international doping network" in cross country skiing. [caption id="attachment_10420" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Austrian police in Seefelfd. It is not known whether this particular unit was/is involved in investigation [/caption] Suspects are not formally named by widely believed ( and in case of Austrians confirmed by their coach) to be Andreas Veerpalu, son of the double Olympic gold medalist Andrus Veerpalu, and Karel Tammjärv from Estonia, . Kazakhstan's Alexey Poltoranin and Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke from Team Austria. [caption id="attachment_10422" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Dominik Baldauf racing in Dresden in January 2019 [/caption] The police is giving chilling details of "one of the suspects being literally caught with a…

21Feb 2019 by DS News Team

Seefeld-2019. Behind Scenes

Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport, Trivia

..what you don't typically get to see in your television broadcast... [caption id="attachment_10347" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Mountain sun, warm weather - and thawing ski tracks. Seefeld 2019 is going to be fun for spectators...[/caption][caption id="attachment_10337" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] ... and royal pain in the butt for ski waxers & techs[/caption][caption id="attachment_10344" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] monster wax truck where 8 or more waxers can work side-by-side is not only the single most expensive item aound - it's the most needed one too [/caption][caption id="attachment_10341" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Some skiers brought their life partners along - others left them at home and brought just a smile [/caption][caption id="attachment_10338" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] rules for " moving pictures" a.k.a video filming have been tightened drastically - so non-rights holding media i.e. those who did not pay a ton of…

19Feb 2019 by DS News Team

Seefeld-2019. Curtain-Raiser. In Pictures

Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport, Trivia

We have made an effort to convince you using stats & figures, that Seefeld-2019 has a promise of becoming the best world championship ever. Here's a glimpse of how the Tirolian resort looks on the eve of the tournament kick-off [caption id="attachment_10281" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Nour Keirouz, Lebanon xcski champ, will compete in sprint at Seefeld[/caption] Focal point - the newly built Seefeld Ski Stadium https://www.instagram.com/p/BuE1oCFhi5D/ ...where swarms of waxers and technicians are busy selecting the winning wax formulas [caption id="attachment_10282" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] "dude, did you bring enough planks along?" [/caption] https://www.instagram.com/p/BuE3Tkfhl27/ ...Total "my wax truck is bigger than your wax truck!". Or, at least, my flag is higher https://www.instagram.com/p/BuEkQGPhhVK/ ...These guys look like they also care about chemicals - but of entirely different type. Just a guess - police forces…

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