FIS Cross-Country Race Director Jürg Capol just returned from the FIS Calendar Conference in Cavtat (CRO) and provided us a quick impression from the meetings from his point of view.
The new FIS calendar includes 24 World Cup competitions (the Tour and the Final both count as one) in 11 different countries in North America and Europe.
Conference recommends introducing a multi-stage World Championship on the basis of the Tour de Ski model in the years where no FIS Nordic World Ski Championships or Olympic Games are held.
Here we will inform about the changes in the family life of the athletes and staff around the Cross-Country circus which have come to the attention of the FIS Cross-Country News.
Six athletes were named to the A Team and five to the B Team, including two skiers from Northern Michigan University.
Hippolyt Kempf, Olympic Champion from 1988 in Nordic Combined, has taken over the responsibility for the Swiss Cross-Country team as new Director of Cross-Country while also serving as Director of Nordic Combined.
23-year-old Dario Cologna goes into history as the first Swiss overall World Cup winner in Cross-Country Skiing. What does he say about the future?
We have just finished one of the most exciting Cross-Country seasons ever with as many as three excellent highlights.
Meetings of eight different Cross-Country Committees (Popular Skiing, Roller Skiing, Youth and Children, Cross-Country World Cup and Continental Cup, Rules and Control, Ladies, Executive Board and Cross-Country Committee) will take place.
British Columbia’s newest cross-country skiing loppet will kick-off on Saturday, February 19, 2011. Event organizers have earmarked Whistler Olympic Park as the host venue.
Similar to Cross-Country Skiing, the changes in the coaching ranks of the FIS Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined World Cup teams have been minimal before the upcoming Olympic season.
As is often the case before an Olympic season, the changes in the coaching ranks of the FIS Cross-Country World Cup teams have been minimal.