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27Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Anastasia Sedova Joins Good Company

Bronze medalist of Seefeld'19 Anastasia Sedova will skip the upcoming season. The boss of the Russian cross country skiing Elena Vyalbe has (reluctantly) confirmed the news when asked whether there is any truth in rumours that Sedova is pregnant. Sedova,24, joins a fellow Seefeld medal winner Yulia Belorukova as well as two other Team Russia skiers, Elena Soboleva-Ustigova (wife of Sergei Ustiugov) and Tatyana Aleshina, who are all expecting. It's doubtful that any team in the history of cross country skiing ever had four of its athletes out through pregnancy.

27Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Meet Coaches Of 2019/20 Season

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The FIS World Cup 2019/20 is about to kick off in Ruka, Finland. Tomorrow we will update you on those who we reckon got a shot on winning the Cup. But today we want to start by introducing (or reminding you) the people who make them athletes, who shape them and who send them to the battles for podium: Coaches It's not a definitive list, not every coach is mentioned below - mostly those we got to watch operating in the months between the end of the last season and now. [caption id="attachment_13733" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Eirik Myhr Nossum coaches men's side of Team Norway. Last season's clean sweep at the gold in Seefeld plus the WC 18/19 will be an extremely hard act to repeat for a 34 year old…

21Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Unique Version Of Still Rare Alpina Elite 3.0 ECL Spotted

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Have you noticed how the race between competing high-end ski boots makers is heating up? Not to disparage ski and pole designers, but there was no revolution in their field in this century. True, tracks changed, weather conditions changed and lots of fine-tuning went into making them skis glide better in 2019. Still, it's modest in comparison to how much ski boots changed even in the last decade with introduction of carbon cuffs and all-carbon soles. The race is on, fresh entrants appear on the market and all manufacturers have to develop new boots faster - and to find niches hitherto unexplored. Enter Alpina. The Slovenian high-end ski boots manufacturer has presented its newest top model at Seefeld 2019, but until now only a few sport them. [caption id="attachment_13700" align="alignnone"…

19Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Bright Future Of XCSkiing : Introducing Karolina Kaleta

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Things to know about Karolina Kaleta: - at 17 (she turned 17 only last week), she is the youngest member of the " Super Squad" led by Aleksander Wierietielny and Justyna Kowalczyk where the best Polish female skiing talents are assembled. Their progress is astonishing and we fully expect this team to start seriously fighting for top podiums as of this year. ((Correction: Karolina is the 2d youngest. Hanna Popko is even younger)) - Karolina has older sister, Weronika Kaleta, 20, who is also part of the Super Squad. As she's younger, Karolina calls herself Kaletka or " little Kaleta" on Instagram. - Karolina is occasionally practicing biathlon as well as skiing. - Karolina is 180cm tall. - Karolina just reached a true elite level in her sporting career by…

18Nov 2019 by DS News Team

Equipment Update: What We Saw At First International Race Of Season

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For years now Olos/Muonio has had a reputation of being the first true international meet-up of the new competition season. The results may or may not reflect the actual strength of a particular athlete,depending on her/ his strategy. But what is constant, is the fact that we all get to see athletes who changed their gear supplier in the summer to podium walk their new wares for the first time. [caption id="attachment_13666" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Biggest news, of course, is Iivo Niskanen switching from Rossignol to Fischer. It is becoming exceedingly rare in our days to see a skier of his caliber & titles to do the swap. Yet a double Olympic and a world champion has taken that plunge...[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13661" align="alignnone" width="1920"] It would appear that the Austrian skis…

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