nordic skiing

Polish Olympic cross country skier, Justyna Kowalczyk, has begun the season with a World Cup race in Norway, Saturday morning. "This is my most important season because of the Olympics," said Kowalczyk, who won a bronze medal in the 30 km freestyle cross country race at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy as well as the overall 2008-2009 Cross Country Skiing World Cup. The race, a 10 km free style run, wraps up Saturday afternoon. The races kick off the women's World Cup and Olympic cross country ski se  

The community is invited to a fundraiser for Women's Ski Jumping USA on Monday, Nov. 23, at Chez Betty Restaurant in the Copperbottom Inn. The event will feature a gourmet five-course meal, wine pairings from Cline Cellars in Sonoma, and a silent auction benefiting the U.S. Women's Ski Jumping team as they continue to train, compete and seek inclusion in the Olympic Winter Games. The cost is $95 per person, not including gratuity.  

V ancouver Olympic officials have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympics, so they can't be found to be violating the athletes' rights, British Columbia's highest court says. The B.C. Appeal Court dismissed the jumpers' case last week, but the reasons for the unanimous decision weren't released until Friday. In the ruling, the three-member appeal panel agrees that the decision about which events are included in the Olympics rests solely with the International Olympic Committee.  

Petter Northug appears to be the man to beat in the Olympic cross-country skiing season which starts on Saturday in his native Norway. Northug, 23, rose to stardom with three gold medals at the 2009 world championships in the Czech resort of Liberec and hopes for similar success at the Vancouver Games which run February 12-28. And like in Liberec, where he shook off the ghosts of a fall at the previous worlds, he will have something to prove in Canada after not being nominated for the 2006 Games in Turi

It was good to get an answer to that my form is on schedule. I have trained well throughout the summer and fall   -Petter Northug

 

They began this season just as they finished the last - as runners up. The Mount Anthony Union High School Nordic ski teams spent Thursday's practice repeatedly bounding up a steep trail at Prospect Ski Area, each lap punctuated by gasps for breath and complaints of burning quads. And while the casual observer would assume that the motivation for such self-abuse was last season's twin second-place finishes at States, head coach Bruce Smith revealed that as only the tip of the iceberg.

It’s about having a respect for success   -Bruce Smith

 

HUNTLY duo Andrew Young and Callum Smith started the pre-Olympic cross-country season in style with impressive displays in Sweden. The Great Britain Nordic ski team athletes, who are both 17, finished fifth and 12th respectively in the junior freestyle 15kilometre race in an international field of 50. William Newman, 17, also from Huntly, broke his best time in the classic 1,700metre sprint.

I predict we will make sporting history this winter with the best season British Nordic Ski-ing has ever had.   -Roy Young

 

Deedee Corradini, president of Women's Ski Jumping-USA, and Park City ski jumpers Lindsey Van and Jessica Jerome still haven't quite gotten over their visit last week to the British Columbia Court of Appeals.  

Members of the U.S. Ski Team took advantage of a recent invitation to visit the Park City Academy to share their sport as well as personal stories and feelings about the upcoming Olympic Games.  

So Olympic events are determined by the International Olympic Committee, which is beyond the reach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( B.C. Court Shoots Down Women Ski Jumpers' Appeal To Compete In 2010 Games – Nov. 14), and ski jumping is the only Winter Olympic sport restricted to men. What can Canada do? For starters, the Canadian men's ski jumping team should boycott the event.

the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.   -William Osler