Biathlon

30Nov 2020 by DS News Team

Klæbo Won’t Compete In World Cup In December

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo will not compete in the World Cup the remainder of this year. "I feel that skiing and competitions are not important compared to the pandemic that is now raging in the world," the current World Cup leader says in the statement At the earliest, he is back in the World Cup when the Tour de Ski begins on New Year's Day. Klaebo, 24, has long said travelling in Europe in the middle of the current health crisis is dangerous and that he would decide whether to compete on case-by-case basis. "Everyone has to do their part - this is important and right for me to do"

24Nov 2020 by DS News Team

FIS World Cup Makes Comeback On Top Russian Sport TV Channel

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Just a few days ahead of the FIS World Cup kick off in Ruka Match TV, Russia's top sports television channel announced they bought rights and intend to broadcast the entire season of the series. That's huge and certainly will find warm response with all the ski gear makers: their winning athletes are now exposed to a new potential audience of some 81 million people , that's how many "Russian ESPN" reaches. Match! is a commercial channel that cares about ratings first, second & last: most of their broadcast consists of football, MMA and biathlon, guaranteed audience magnet. Adding xcsiing to that pool implies the bosses of the channel have a faith in narrow skis. Says Alexander Taschchin, March TV editor-in- chief: "Cross country skiing is hugely popular in Russia…

17Nov 2020 by DS News Team

Gjerdalen Takes Over Long-distance Team, Two Maverick Skiers To Assist Him

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Tord Asle Gjerdalen is back in the saddle - and he's got two major names to assist him. A 37 year old Norwegian who, among other achievements, won Marcialonga three years in a row , in 2015, 2016 and 2017, but who was made redundant by Team Ragde Eiendom in April this year has announced his arrival to the long-distance ski outfit "Team XPND Fuel of Norway" It clear that Gejerdalen will be the driving force and the main sponsors ' attraction ( we don't know if Ray Ban has signed but they totally should! ) of the Team XPND. Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen and Eirik Brandsdal are presented as new "mentors" of the team. Not sure what sort of mentoring they could deliver but presence of such freshly retired household…

12Nov 2020 by DS News Team

Lillehammer World Cup Stage’ 2020 Cancelled After All

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They've tried hard, valiantly. But at the end they had to give up. Late on Thursday the Norwegian Ski Association, a formal organizer of the Lillehammer FIS World Cup races, had to throw in a towel: not this crazy year, not with the current restrictions in place. The press release is talking about " postponing the event " but there are no gaps in schedule - unless someone else cancels, that is. It would appear that after the opener in Ruka, Finland the planet's best skiers will reconvene in Davos two weeks later, on December 12-13. Quite unprecedented gap in pre-Christmas competitions but the Year of COVID keeps on changing all the established notions.

10Nov 2020 by DS News Team

Yelena Vyalbe: We Need Additional Half-a-million Euros Just For Corona-testing

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Everyone is aware of the fact that the top-level cross-country skiing is not exactly awash in money and some national teams positively struggle to have ends meet even in the best of times. The Corona-crisis will make it worse. As in " half-a-million euros worse" in case of Team Russia, as per the boss of the Russian skiing. "We normally have some 60+ people travelling to the World Cup stages - that figure includes athletes plus coaches and all the support personnel. We did the math: newly introduced COVID-19 testing measures at every stage would set us down some 500 to 530 thousand euros this season.", the chairman of the Russian Ski Association told Dailyskier.com in recent conversation. No national xcski team makes its spending sheet publicly available (with a…

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