Source: Lygna and Toblach vying to host JWSC 2022

Source: Lygna and Toblach vying to host JWSC 2022

Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport
We are openly partial to Nordic Junior World Ski Championships. It's one of the most underrated events in the skiing calender. Where else you get to see tomorrow's champions earning their first stripes ? Where else do you get to see so many emotions on the tracks and outside? So when the news hit that Zakopane has cancelled on hosting the JWSC 2022, we started to dig around to find out who might step in as a last-minute replacement - the way Vuokatti stepped in in 2021. Now we think we know - albeit not with certainty. Our sources tell us, that Lygna, Norway and Toblach, Italy have offered their candidacies to hold the cross country skiing part of JWSC'22 ( as xcskiing Internet resource, we , honestly, don't care…
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Art Of Feeding (And Keeping Hydrated) Your Athlete

Art Of Feeding (And Keeping Hydrated) Your Athlete

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
The Daily Skier reporter has spent a day with an Assistant Coach of the Russian ski team Egor Sorin during Toblach- Cortina 50k race last weekend, part of Visma Ski CLassics Series - and gleaned an invaluable insight into how the team of technical personal, aides and helpers work to keep "their" skiers fed, hydrated - and ready to win Follow the story through Instagram posts & captions https://www.instagram.com/p/Be5TNxaBJhb https://www.instagram.com/p/Be5XtU6BIfa/?taken-by=daily_skier https://www.instagram.com/p/Be5_j3whDf4/?taken-by=daily_skier https://www.instagram.com/p/Be7U5yhBy7P/?taken-by=daily_skier https://www.instagram.com/p/Be8PR9Ehw4A/?taken-by=daily_skier To refresh your memory: Ustiugov, for whom it was the first- ever Ski Classics race, have managed to stay with the leading group till the very end but lost a few centimeters to eventual winner Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Andreas Nygaard ( Ilya Chernousov was disqualified for obstruction)
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Klæbo And Bolshunov: Things To Know About Two Brilliant Youngsters

Klæbo And Bolshunov: Things To Know About Two Brilliant Youngsters

Leaders, Newsfeed
This season started quite unexpectedly for the sport where a lot of athletes peak at around/after the tender age of 30 and it is not unknown to win a major race being close to 40 years of age. Two youngsters not just attacked the podium(s) – they pretty much jumped on it, pushing aside other favorites! First of the two is, of course, a 21 year old John Høsflot Klæbo of Norway with his absolutely phenomenal " six wins in six World Cup races" in season so far. https://www.instagram.com/p/BckgVmFg9mX/? The second might not have such an impressive slew of victories yet – but he's close, very-very close – so much, in fact, that he's running second in the World Cup standings – Alexander Bolshunov of Russia, currently aged 20 (…
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