Gadgets? Check. Fancy car? Check, although snow tires are advisable if the brakes lock coming to full stop. Wild chase scene? Just bring it. Who knew that James Bond was a crackerjack biathlete as well as alpine skier? In a switch from schussing the Swiss Alps, Bond saves the day […]
Read More →Langrenn.com reports that Norwegian star Marit Bjørgen was hospitalized Saturday night with an irregular heartbeat. Bjørgen first noticed something was awry following her Friday workout, according to a story on aftenposten.no. On Saturday, she finished an interval workout with a higher than normal heart rate. While it eventually normalized, she […]
Read More →Maurice Manificat knows how to suffer. While winning the 30 km skiathlon at Canmore in dramatic fashion last weekend, he skied through a knee injury. But the injury has caught up with him, and he’ll miss the Tour de Ski. According to francetvsport.fr, Manificat has had knee pain since the first World […]
Read More →With Jessie Diggins handing off to her in first place, Kikkan Randall led her final leg wire to wire to win the women’s team sprint at the Quebec World Cup. USA 1 finished ahead of Germany in second place and Norway 2 in third. A fall didn’t stop Diggins. Despite […]
Read More →It oughta be easy to organize a World Cup ski race in the U.S., right? All you need is snow. Not so fast. It takes planning, talking a Eurocentric organizing body into the idea, and money. Read “No Races For You,” my new story on FasterSkier.
Read More →In hopes of finally nailing down a win, Norway will send a smaller than usual team to contest the this winter’s Tour de Ski. While Norway’s quota for the event is 18 skiers, they’ll likely field only 11 or 12. In the six years it’s been held, there have been […]
Read More →Juha Lallukka’s B sample has tested positive for human growth hormone (HGH). Hannu Kalkas, Lallukka’s lawyer, told Finnish media that the completed test on the B sample showed presence of HGH. Lallukka has denied ever using HGH, saying the positive must be for another reason. He’s also asked the Finnish […]
Read More →– Updated 15 November 2011 – Juha Lallukka, whose recent A sample tested positive for human growth hormone, may have been suspected of doping three years ago.
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