29Apr 2020 by DS News Team
18 Year Old Helene Marie Fossesholm Selected By Team Norway

18 Year Old Helene Marie Fossesholm Selected By Team Norway

Leaders, Newsfeed
At the age of 18 Helene Marie Fossesholm is one of the youngest skiers ever to be coopted into the main Team Norway squad. If not the youngest. [caption id="attachment_15716" align="alignnone" width="1920"] At the risk of repeating what everyone knows already: Fossesholm excels both in cross-country skiing and in mountain biking, and up until now was included in the Norwegian junior national teams for both sports[/caption] [caption id="attachment_15717" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Forget her dominance at the World Juniors in Oberwiesenthal: she won Blink last August and came 5th at the Wolrd Cup in Falun. Both in 10k F mass-start, where she keeps on showing uncanny tactical skills[/caption] [caption id="attachment_15718" align="alignnone" width="1920"] With Fossesholm Madshus once again has an athlete in the top squad - wasn't the case last year when Heidi…
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24Apr 2020 by DS News Team
Valentina Vuerich: Remember To Always Dare

Valentina Vuerich: Remember To Always Dare

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Memento Audere Semper - "Remember to always dare". The quote from Gabriele d'Annunzio' poetry graces one of Valentina " Vale" Vuerich's arms. Very fittingly. Vale is a remarkable figure in the international skiing for several reasons each of which warrants a story about her: - she is one of a very, very few ski servicewomen on the international scene - and, likely, currently the most successful of them all as her personal athlete, Anamarija Lampic just had a fantastic season. We all know that the xcskier's success is always build on quality of her/ his skis. - a former athlete herself, Valentina is a lot more than a ski technician. She is a training partner and, judging by amounts of smiles & giggles, one of the close friends to her…
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22Apr 2020 by DS News Team
Aleksander Wierietielny And Justyna Kowalczyk Step Down As Team Poland Coaches

Aleksander Wierietielny And Justyna Kowalczyk Step Down As Team Poland Coaches

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...It was an exciting experiment... ...Aleksander Wierietielny had a long and illustrious career capped with his best known pupil, Justyna Kowalczyk, winning two Olympic golds, three FIS Cross-Country World Cups and incredible four Tour de Ski victories in a row. [caption id="attachment_15635" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Wierietielny and Maniek, the First Dog of XCsking, always there on the tracks [/caption] The Soviet Union-born coach wanted to retire after the 2018 Olympics but none else than Ms. Kowalczyk had convinced him to stay for a few years to work on the project both fascinating and incredible: select a group of 16-17 year old Polish girls - and turn them into world-class skiers. It would be wrong to add the standard "money no object" but it was a very well funded project, money of…
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20Apr 2020 by DS News Team
Introducing My Sponsor: Nadine Faehndrich And Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.

Introducing My Sponsor: Nadine Faehndrich And Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.

Money & Finance, Newsfeed
The Dailyskier note: Nadine Fähndrich has, perhaps, the most exciting and exotic personal sponsor in the whole of the international cross-country skiing: not only is it a huge, billion dollar company - it's the aircraft maker who's name is rather synonymous with high flying, both literally and figuratively speaking. Nadine Fähndrich, in her own words: I am very proud to represent Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. on my headgear. Since 2016 they are my main sponsor. With the support of Pilatus, I can concentrate on the sport. This is an important point to be able to focus and make progress. In short, they make me fly high! [caption id="attachment_15615" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Pilatus PC-12[/caption] Pilatus Aircraft is a Swiss aircraft developer and manufacturer. They produce the legendary PC-12 as well as the newly…
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15Apr 2020 by DS News Team
Alpina Gets Prestigious Design Award For Elite 3.0

Alpina Gets Prestigious Design Award For Elite 3.0

Gear News, Newsfeed
The Alpine Elite 3.0 boots line just received arguably the world's highest appraisal in the field of industrial design: Red Dot Product Design Award. It's a big deal, the covered Red Dot is often seen gracing promo pictures of the winning models. To give you an idea: apart from Alpina 3.0s, the award this year also went to AirPods Pro and IPhone 11Pro to name but a few. To put it bluntly, the Red Dot is turning a product into a coveted symbol of its owner's ...coolness? taste? deep pockets ( it only goes to top-of-the-line products in range)? all of the above? Well you decide, but we are totally in support of that trend when you buy because you dearly want that thing, not just because you find it…
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