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14Apr 2020 by DS News Team

Swiss Team Announces Squad Selection 2020/21

The Swiss ski federation is traditionally among the first to announce the squad selection for the upcoming season - pretty much the moment the last one is over. Corona-crisis or not, the Swiss have decided to keep with traditions Only three athletes made it to the national team this time around: Dario Cologna, Nadine Fähndrich and Laurien van der Graaff. No surprises there - all three had strong last season. [caption id="attachment_15560" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Fähndrich/ van der Graaff duo is among the strongest in the world. Here they are captured right after the silver finish in Dresden, their second Team Sprint podium of the season[/caption] [caption id="attachment_15561" align="alignnone" width="1920"] 2019/20 wasn't the best season for the Olympic champion, only one individual podium - but, rumor has it, Cologna was experimenting…

11Apr 2020 by DS News Team

Time For Summerski?

Gear News, Newsfeed

With all the skiing world on lockdown, the question of How to commence preparations for the next season? will start growing on everyone's mind very,very soon. Summerski might have a shot at if not solving the problem, then at least buying time till top skiers could go back to their glaciers of choice, currently uniformly shut. We wrote about Summersk project here and here There is not much to add - except that the project might finally have a chance to go big. Now that we all learned that travelling is not a right but a form of luxury it would be a good time to think of Plan B.

10Apr 2020 by DS News Team

Swedish Telecoms Giant Pays Crazy Money For Champions League And Why Is It Relevant

Money & Finance, Newsfeed

Telia, Swedish telecommunications giant and owner of several media platforms just bought the UEFA Champions League television & streaming rights for three years starting from 2021. You know how much Telia paid? SEK 1 billion per year - that's just shy of 92 million euros! That's for Sweden only. The previous rights'holder, NENT Group, reportedly paid less for the whole Scandinavian region I.e. Denmark, Norway and Sweden. 92 million euros / year to show some soccer in the country that doesn't have much representation in the tournament and certainly stands no chance of ever winning it! Why is this news on cross country skiing resource? First, to make a comparison: we don't think SVT, Swedish public broadcaster and Telia's top rival for audiences' eyeballs pays more than 5% of that…

08Apr 2020 by DS News Team

Introducing My Sponsors: Lisa Unterweger

Money & Finance, Newsfeed

Continuing "Introducing my sponsors" series. Lisa Unterweger from Team Austria is blessed to have the whole team of supporters behind her: I am very lucky with the team supporting me. There are three main sponsors in the #teamuw, as I call it. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHbCwvHN-8/?igshid=128oqo30crary Of course the biggest one is my "headband sponsor“ the Olympiaregion Seefeld. Guess there is no further explanation necessary, as we all know it from the FIS Nordic World Championships in 2019. I’ve been cooperating with them for 2 years now and it was a huge honor for me to start at the World Championship at home, with the host as a partner at my side. I was really proud to represent them. But my relationship with Seefeld in Tirol goes far more back than that. In…

06Apr 2020 by DS News Team

Spring, Skiers, Singles…

Newsfeed, Trivia

Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera! ”You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming!” That beautiful quote from Pablo Neruda (on a very different occasion) eerily relevant in describing what we got outside our windows this year. Being stuck at home is hardly romantic. Silver lining? Great time for dreaming! Let's just clarify a fee things: - Single is in " single boy". Analyzing girls eligibility for dating is oh-so-twentieth century! In short - go figure out yourself, we shan't tell you. - Shirtless post on Instagram is a must - nobody wants to dream about some shivering in a cold rando. Decidedly unsexy. Even for a skier. - You might be surprised by acute absence of Russian skiers, ditto…

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