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05Oct 2017 by DS News Team

Meet Miss World Who Is Avid XCSkier

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ0qDPjFNkX/ “Let's wrap up the rollerskiing season))” Meet Ksenia Sukhinova – former Miss World, actress, TV Host, - and avid skier & rollerskier. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPkfIARFp8_ Regular on magazine covers and with 230.00 followers in Instagram, a 30 year old Russian top model is, possibly, the sport's greatest promoter in her home country. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPuWDjTl6DE For anybody suspecting some sort of PR stunt, here's Ms. Sukhinova putting her V2 skating technique on display. https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/826806554036940801 Sukhinova was born in Khanty and grew up in Tyumen, two of the Russia's main cross skiing centers https://www.instagram.com/p/BRQdVpmhSfH/ Here's beauty tip from beauty queen: frost is the best make-up artist one could find! https://www.instagram.com/p/BPucYHKFyT1 Photo courtesy of Instagram @kseniasukhinova

30Sep 2017 by The Daily Skier Editorial

Skiers’ Future Careers

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Remember the days when top skier's career choices after retirement from big sport were largely consisting of two options: becoming a trainer or becoming a sport commentator on TV? Well, this is 2017 and there is not just more money in sport - more importantly, there are more ways to turn a hard earned fame into a rest-of-the-life career. You still can think of television, of course - except that now you have every right to think big. If you're Petter Northug , that is, and you launched and successfully operate the whole budding media empire revolving around ( but not limited to) yourself. This days & age, it pays not just to ride the wave - but to be the meanest , the baddest rider of them all, right?…

20Sep 2017 by DS News Team

Read This If You Are Skier With Love Handles Issue

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Time to confess: how many an amateur Nordie have you come across sporting a bit of a stomach, spilling over that tight waistband of his Lycra-enhanced ski racing suit? And does that include the man you see every day in the mirror? If you are one of us, perennial “love handles” fighters – rejoice! Because the good scientists at the Columbia University Medical Center have just come up with a skin patch that dissolves the said 'love handles' – in overfed mice so far, but that's a start, ain't it? According to the story in Science Daily, quoting the authors of the research, “Microneedle skin patch that delivers fat-shrinking drug locally could be used to treat obesity and diabetes”. "Not all fat is equal," says Professor Alexander Pfeifer from the…

13Sep 2017 by DS News Team

(Some Of ) Most Exotic Innovations In Cross Country Skiing

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..Once in a while there is a new invention, some exotic device that is meant to give a skier that much talked about "winning margin". Most of those invention have come and gone. Some, however, could be purchased if you really wish so. Here is our selection of the most outstanding ones: 1.Nordic Torpedo. Glide Wax Testing Tool 'Traditional race ski selection glide-out tests are time consuming and generally not cool'. That must have been the logic behind invention of something called Nordic Torpedo. The device has Ultra High Molecular Weight polyethylene-covered surface, similar to real skis – except that it's used on four sides. The idea is simple and quite elegant: instead of waxing up four pairs of skis for for glide-out , you wax four sides of single…

27Aug 2017 by DS News Team

Mayweather VS McGregor And How Is It Relevant To Skiing

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We live in the world where ( some) boxers become multimillionaires after just one bout, footballers change clubs for amount of money with too many zeros to fit on one page and Uncle Ruppert round the block drives an Italian supersport that he never ever let go over 50. As one well known character from a TV commercial put it once, "Opulence, I has it" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VvTj8Y9MY If you think that the cross country skiing should be immune and isolated from these signs of times we live in – please, save you time, read no further. For those, however, who want to "look like a million dollars" – or, more likely, to share the story of "opulence" with skiing club buddies - here are some ultra-rare ski items that few ever…

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