Katerina Neumannova, President of the Liberec 2009 organizing committee took the time to answer the following 10 questions after the official Final Inspection conducted on Monday 13th October.
The final inspection updates provided specifically demonstrated the lessons learned from the test events held last season and the changes and improvements that have been implemented as a result.
Last week the FIS Cross-Country News had the possibility to speak with the Cross-Country Chief of the Norwegian Ski Association and former athlete, Age Skinstad, about his team and the upcoming season.
All FIS Nordic discipline calendars for the coming season include World Cups at the 2010 Olympic venues at Whistler Olympic Park. The length for the men's sprint competition was increased to 1.6 km.
The Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country 2008/2009 features a compact calendar with 35 races per gender including the third edition of the FIS Tour de Ski
Arild Monsen has been recruited from Molde, Norway to guide the Senior World Cup and Olympic Team.
The U.S. Nordic Combined Team's Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, CO) earned his career first nordic combined national title Saturday during the 2009 U.S. Championships in Lake Placid.
This is the first U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships that will be held off snow. While it may seem unorthodox, the 2009 U.S. Championships are going to be in October - without Father Winter.
Jason Cork comes to Michigan Tech after serving as a club coach for the past five years, including the last four as head coach of the Durango (Colo.) Nordic Ski Club.
Doping by Australian nordic ski team members at 2006 winter Olympics in Turin was not an isolated case, but a well-organized strategy , acording to prosecutor.
In the Arena is a youth development organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that facilitates the implementation of athlete-designed projects that seek to instill in under-served youths valuable elements of a character education.
It is official: Bjorn Daehlie, the Norwegian cross-country skiing legend of the 90es who won 12 Olympic medals, 8 of them gold, will participate at Sgambeda 2008, the opening race for the FIS Marathon Cup.