News, tips, and guides for the Nordic Ski Racer

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Using Fast Wax Ski Wax Base Prep

Properly prepared ski bases accept and retain wax more effectively. Fast Wax Base Prep contains a microwax formula which penetrates the ski base more deeply than standard hydrocarbon wax.

By Dan Meyer
Jan 14, 2010

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Vancouver 2010: One month to go

With the final month to go before the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, work is underway to prepare the Olympic competition venues for all weather scenarios - including the current spell of unseasonably warm and wet weather in Vancouver.

By FIS
Jan 14, 2010

The first World Cup competition in Estonia and Otepää: 1999

It would be a sensation if the small and poor Estonia could take over a World Cup competition from the big and wealthy Russia...The Story

By Bengt Erik Bengtsson, FIS
Jan 14, 2010

Nationals: Day 3 and 4

Great crowds, good to great courses, great volunteers and great races in Anchorage.

By Pete Vordenberg
Jan 13, 2010

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GLD Points List to date

Here are the current GLD Points and some news about travel to Junior Olympics.

By Nick Baic
Jan 13, 2010

Northern Illinois XX ski race results and photos

If you haven't seen them, some great NIN photos from John Wrycza can be viewed below. Also, here are results.

By Bob Richards
Jan 13, 2010

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Debut of U.S. Olympic Biathlon Team

Biathlon World Cup racing resumes this week as the U.S. Olympic Biathlon Team will make it’s competition debut at the “Super Bowl of Biathlon” World Cup competition in Ruhpolding.

By US Biathlon Team
Jan 13, 2010

USBA nominates Olympians

The International Competition Committee of the U.S. Biathlon Association conducted a final review of results from the IBU Cup races in Altenberg, Germany. The US Biathlon Assoication will forward these athletes names to the US Olympic Committe.

By US Biathlon Team
Jan 12, 2010

Demong, Lodwick make history in Italy with 1st and 2nd

It was history in the making in Italy Sunday as World Champions Billy Demong and Todd Lodwick took first and second, marking the first time two U.S. athletes have made the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup podium together.

By US Ski Team
Jan 12, 2010

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USSA names World Junior Nordic Combined Team

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has named ten men and three women to the World Junior Championship Team to compete in nordic combined and ski jumping following final trials last week in Lake Placid.

By USSA
Jan 12, 2010

Twelve named to World Junior Cross Country Team

The USSA has named 12 skiers to the World Junior Cross Country Team that will compete later this month at the World Junior Nordic Championships in Hinterzarten, Germany. The team was selected based on results at the U.S. Cross Country Championships.

By USSA
Jan 12, 2010

Snow sets ski race at Huron Meadows Metropark

Adam Haberkorn and Mike Muha couldn’t be happier. Friday’s snow is just what they’d hoped for one week ahead of the ski race they’ve been planning, the only one of its kind in southern Michigan

By Denise Semion
Jan 12, 2010

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