It’s springtime, officially, which means the world skiing elites are wrapping up their holidays and returning to the tracks. Mostly, snow tracks, wherever they can be found mid-May.
Some, like A Norwegian Lahti golden medalist in relay, Niklas Dyrhaug, however, appear to be combining work and pleasure, by improving their balance and upper core muscles. There’s a visible abundance of the latter in this photo:
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Team Sweden’s Sofia Henriksson expects the viewers to comment on both her V1 and V2 skating technique. A well deserved Instagram Like from us, Sofia!
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Meanwhile, a fellow Swede and a member of all-female Team Ski Pro Am, Hedda Bangman, firmly believes that the bikini is the most weather-appropriate training outfit for the May snow in Åre.
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Lovise Heimdal, Norway U23 team member, concurs. Løypa in Sjusjøen are very hot indeed around this time of the year, we hear:
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21-year-old Karoline Wollan is not in a hurry to put her ski on. Instead she is doing… something on the snow. We are not quite sure what – but 5000 likes on her Instagram account can’t be wrong:
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Ditto for a Russian ski sprinter Polina Kovaleva. Those mountains make you fly, Polina!
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No spring training dress review would be complete without the King of Cross Country Ski and, simultaneously, a reigning supremo of social networks, Petter Northug Jr.
Here he is, congratulating everybody on the National Day of Norway, standing on top of Galdhøpiggen, Norway’s highest mountain.
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TOP PHOTO Courtesy Instagram kovalevas_polinas