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24Mar 2019 by DS News Team

The International Season Is Over. Here Are Changes That Need To Be Effected – Or Else

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Brilliant Norwegians once again wiped the floor with the competition, winning both ladies' and men's overall World Cup titles - and taking most of the places in Top Ten And taking overall Nations Cup, naturally. Optimists would say that this time around things were not as one way as in, say, 2015–16 FIS Cross-Country World Cup when Norway took 24234 points - almost as much as the rest of the world combined. This year it was "only" 12657 to Russia's 8636 and Sweden's 7015. A progress of a kind. [caption id="attachment_10602" align="aligncenter" width="1920"][/caption] In fact, it became yet another season pushing cross country skiing off the main plate towards also-run niche. Already…

07Mar 2019 by DS News Team

Novel Way Of Winning In Sprint Or I Am Very Sorry For What Happened

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Two rising stars of international skiing had a bit of a kerfuffle at the sprint finals of the Universide-2019. [caption id="attachment_10519" align="aligncenter" width="1470"] Alexander Terentiev[/caption] First, sprint prodigy from Team Russia Alexander Terentiev, 19, stepped on opponent's skis nearly causing the latter one to lose the balance. Both literally - and figuratively - speaking [caption id="attachment_10518" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Ivan Yakimushkin[/caption] The said opponent, Ivan Yakimushkin, 22 , found a novel way of responding - and overtaking - in a closely contested race. By grabbing & pulling his pole Yakimushkin, who, like Terentiev, made alreadyh several World Cup appearances for Team Russia , then accelerated and came to the finish first, while unlucky opponent finished second. Judges, somehow, have summarily failed to appreciate Yakimushkin's innovative methods and disqualified him. Later Ivan…

06Mar 2019 by DS News Team

Klaebo Gets Suspended Jail Sentence, Fine For Driving Accident

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Norwegian stars ( to be sure - males stars) and their driving issues! https://www.instagram.com/p/BurMVAqBVH1/ 16 days of jail time and a fine of 10,000 NOK - this is a verdict the Sør-Trøndelag District Court handed down to Johannes Høsflot Klæbo for his driving accident last December. Jail is suspended. He will also lose his license for 9 months Klaebo rear-ended another car on a roundabout. A 12 year girl was injured in collision. By comparison, certain Petter N. got 50 days in prison ( also suspended) and NOK 185,000 for his valiant effort to check how far he could push Audi A7 on a Norwegian road. https://www.instagram.com/p/vqxPE-Iz4s/ Then, of course, there was that little factoid of him driving 80 kilometres per hour in a 40 zone, and a blood alcohol…

27Feb 2019 by DS News Team

That Word Again: Doping

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Not what anybody wanted to hear again, but here it goes: The Austrian police reps announced on Wednesday that they "succeeded in smashing an international doping network" in cross country skiing. [caption id="attachment_10420" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Austrian police in Seefelfd. It is not known whether this particular unit was/is involved in investigation [/caption] Suspects are not formally named by widely believed ( and in case of Austrians confirmed by their coach) to be Andreas Veerpalu, son of the double Olympic gold medalist Andrus Veerpalu, and Karel Tammjärv from Estonia, . Kazakhstan's Alexey Poltoranin and Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke from Team Austria. [caption id="attachment_10422" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Dominik Baldauf racing in Dresden in January 2019 [/caption] The police is giving chilling details of "one of the suspects being literally caught with a…

13Feb 2019 by DS News Team

Road to Seefeld-2019. Meet Eva Urevc, Emerging Sprint Sensation

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Eva Urevc, 23, Team Slovenia Specialization: Freestyle Sprinter What Makes Eva's sporting career special: - One of the most impressive "burst onto the scene" this season so far, 4 Top 30 places in a row with some of the best times in sprint qualifications at the World Cup stages in Toblach, Val Muester and Lahti. - In Lahti last week Eva outright won the sprint qualification. finishing astounding 4 seconds ahead of #2, Nadine Faendrich – and then couldn't qualify for the semis. In fact, she is yet to qualify for the semis once at the World Cup. - Eva is a world-class rower ( participated in World Junior Rowing Championships) and Crossfit athlete - and she is including training element commonly used in those sports into her cross-country skiing…

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