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16Nov 2017 by DS News Team

Some Of World’s Best Skiers In Gällivare. Photoessay

Just take a look at the world's best skiers training on perfect but extremely demanding tracks of Gällivare ahead of the races on Friday, Saturday and Sunday A picture is worth a thousand words. Enjoy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bbj-Qv5hCwF https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkQhq8hJIx https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkTYPXhFY3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkVAmoBG-E https://www.instagram.com/p/Bbj19fth-dl https://www.instagram.com/p/BbkSpPkBI0Q

14Oct 2017 by DS News Team

Definitive Guide Of Where To Ski Outdoors Mid-October

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting

Hey, it's mid-October, time to start whetting your appetite for real skiing on crystal-white snow! No more envying those few who have time & money to travel to the Southern Hemisphere for a spot of summer ( ours) skiing. No need to drive to a ski tunnel, the walls of which , let's face it, can't compare with a view a real snow track provides. And you know what October 15th means? Well, that's the day the ski track opens in Livigno, that perennial capital of early skiing in Europe and beyond. While we await fresh pictures from 2017, here's some lovely shot video of what Livigno holds for a skier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyB58gSAYDg Not to be seen biased towards the valley squeezed between Italy and Switzerland, we put together some alternative…

13Oct 2017 by DS News Team

Brilliantly Blunt Yelena Välbe Does Not Mince Her Words In Recent Interview

Leaders, Newsfeed

Yelena Välbe was always known for her bold, no compromise performance on the ski tracks - the one that earned her 3 Olympic champion titles and incredible fourteen golds at the FIS World Championships. Now, running the Russian Cross Country Ski Federation and being the member of FIS cross country skiing Executive Board, she seem to have lost none of her fiery style. In interview with the Russian R-Sport new agency, she totally doesn't shy away from calling a spade a spade – the quality that earned her both admiration and scorn from ski fans. Here are some of the choicer excerpts: On the future of Skiathlon: "It's the smaller ski nations that are interested in kicking the skiathlon out of the World Championships' program. It's both complicated and expensive…

03Jun 2017 by DS News Team

Blink Fest This Year Draws More Stars Than Ever Before.

Leaders, Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport

Blink Ski Festival this year is shaping up to become more star-studded than ever before. A four day rollerskiing/ summer biathlon event in Western Norway is cementing its unique position in the skiing world. Blink the only real competition where the best & greatest of the World Cup cross country skiing circuit get to see face to face the Visma Ski Classics' strongest marathoners as well as the world's best biathletes. The preliminary list of participants in Blink 2017 reads like who-is-who in the world of “narrow skis”: Marit Bjørgen, Martin Fourcade, Iivo Niskanen, Maiken Caspersen Falla, Heidi Weng, Charlotte Kalla, Krista Pärmäkoski, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Johannes Thingnes and Tarjei Bø are all attending. And did we mention the King of Skis ( and the last year's winner of Blink's 60km…

24May 2017 by DS News Team

Ustiugov Might Run All Six Races in PyeongChang, Says Vyalbe

Leaders, Newsfeed

Yelena Vyalbe, president of the Russian Cross Country Ski Federation has unveiled qualification criteria for making it to the Russian team for the Winter Olympic Games of 2018 [caption id="attachment_3632" align="alignnone" width="854" class="center"] Courtesy of Russian Ski Federation[/caption] There are some 60 ( sixty!) candidates with a realistic chance of going to Pyeongchang, according to Vyalbe, quoted by the TASS news agency, – possibly, the biggest pool of aspirants outside the Norwegian team The final list, however, would include only 10 women and 10 men. The Russian selection is complicated by the suspension of five leading skiers ( there are six – but one since retired). The Olympic champion of Sochi Alexander Legkov, world champion of Falun-2015 Maxim Vylegzhanin, as well as Evgeny Belov, Alexei Petukhov and Evgnenia Shapovalova are…

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