09Dec 2019 by DS News Team
PSYOP Comes To Skiing?

PSYOP Comes To Skiing?

Newsfeed
If you think it was Johannes Klaebo or Alex Bolshunov who the fans who lined up the tracks of Birkebeineren ski stadium on Saturday were cheering on the most - think again. Nope, it was Vebjoern Turtveit who has totally stole the show with his choice of ergh...racing apparel. Moreover, we hereby postulate that wearing something like that in a mass start is nothing but a page from psychological ops or PSYOPs ! Surely no skier who follows a mighty 25 year old Norwegian on uphill could think of anything else but those, you know palms or whatever else is pictured. Or just laugh hysterically. Learn from the best, kids: Turtviet came strong 12th in the race that featured the world best. They probably did not see.
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07Dec 2019 by DS News Team
Team Sweden Talents Bench Is Endless : Meet New Stars

Team Sweden Talents Bench Is Endless : Meet New Stars

Newsfeed
If Moa Lundgreen (l) and Emma Ribom are not household names for you yet, they soon will be. Both U23 athletes just knocked on the door of the super-elite dept. by finishing in Top 15 at @wclhmr skiathlon. How really deep is the Team Sweden talents' bench? Seems to be never ending - Lundgreen and Ribom were running today because Andersson and Karlsson are out with injuries!
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04Dec 2019 by DS News Team
Skitsnack Or Making News Out Of Nothing At All

Skitsnack Or Making News Out Of Nothing At All

Newsfeed, Trivia
Today we tell you how to cover the ski-related news in 2019. Or, better said, to make the news. And we do it backwards. This week literally every single Russian newspaper and internet resource went with their version of the story that had pretty much same screaming headline: Swedish female skiers made fun of mass pregnant Russian rivals! /Шведские лыжницы высмеяли массово забеременевших российских соперниц. Wow! Why would they? If that was not enough for you to click immediately, there was also a sub-head along the following lines: The Swedes called Yelena Vyalbe "a woman from the old Soviet culture" Vyalbe is a true household name for the most of the Russians ( there is full-size biopic in the works, if case you forgot), but the skiing itself rarely graces…
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05Nov 2019 by DS News Team
Swedes Get Massive Hike In Individual Salaries, But Team Achievement Bonus Is Gone

Swedes Get Massive Hike In Individual Salaries, But Team Achievement Bonus Is Gone

Money & Finance, Newsfeed
Base salary of the national team athletes was hiked quite a bit in a recent decision by the Swedish ski federation, DN reports Charlotte Kalla, Stina Nilsson, Ebba Andersson & Co will from now on get SEK 200000/ year or around 18.700 Euros. Not exactly what country's top football or ice hockey players are used to but much better than previous SEK 120000/ year Apart from the base salary raise, there are also more bonuses: a winner of a FIS World Cup stage would take home SEK 50000, second place would bring 30 and third 20K. Previously only winners were paid. What's gone is a peculiar collective same-for-all bonus Swedish skiers were previously paid if they took 30 World Cup podiums between them. Not so much jämlikhet any longer?
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24Oct 2019 by DS News Team
1100 Hours Man Iivo Niskanen

1100 Hours Man Iivo Niskanen

Leaders, Newsfeed
1100 hours in preparation for the season 2019/2020! That's how many hours of training Iivo Niskanen bagged, according to Iltalehti newspaper . No wonder the Finnish Red Bull looked so tired the last time our camera lense caught him -that was at the Blink Skifest in August. Even some teammates , according to Iltalehti, call that amount " masochistic ". Martin Sundby had reportedly done even more, around 1200 hours training a couple of seasons ago - be he has gone down to under 1000 hours recently, by his own admission.
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