02Aug 2018 by DS News Team
19 Year Old Beats Olympic Champions At 60K. New Era Looms In Skiing?

19 Year Old Beats Olympic Champions At 60K. New Era Looms In Skiing?

Leaders, Newsfeed
"...The Times They Are a-Changin'...". We doubt Bob Dylan had meant cross country skiing when he sung it more half a century ago – but it reflects precisely what is happening in the sport right now. When Johannes Klaebo, Alexander Bolshunov and Denis Spitsov were running riot on the World Cup and the Olympic tracks last season , nobody failed to notice how shockingly young they were by the standards of endurance sport – twenty one , each of them with Bolshunov, the youngest of three, turning 21 only in December [caption id="attachment_7146" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] Bolshunov in November 2017. Only 20 - already winning[/caption] So while Bolshunov's victory at 60k at Blink Skifestival does not come as huge surprise -the man, after all, is the Olympics' silver medalist at 50k…
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30Jul 2018 by DS News Team
China Goes Serious About XCSkiing, Enlists Marwe To Help ( Among Others)

China Goes Serious About XCSkiing, Enlists Marwe To Help ( Among Others)

Leaders, Newsfeed
Hold your breath There will be 1500 ski resorts and ice rinks and 300 million people participating in winter sports in the People's Republic of China by the year of 2025 Aptly named Promotion Plan of Mass Winter Sports and The National Construction Plan of Winter Sports Infrastructure say so. And if it say so - it very likely will become just so. OK, not all - not even the largest chunk of it - will be about cross country skiing. But even if a fraction of 1 trillion yuan or circa 100 000 000 000 Euros ( yep, that's one hundred billion Euros) that the Chinese winter sport market is projected to generate by the year of 2025, will go towards the narrow skis - that will be Huge,…
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27Jul 2018 by DS News Team
Nancy Okoro, Balkan Cup Winner: How Did I Get My Abs And Why Are They So Important

Nancy Okoro, Balkan Cup Winner: How Did I Get My Abs And Why Are They So Important

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
Nancy Okoro just turned 19 She is a Balkan Cup overall winner of this year racing for Bulgaria. The Daily Skier profiled a Bulgarian cross country skiing talent last year More relevant to the story of today, Nancy is one extremely fit individual representing what is rapidly becoming a must-have for an elite cross country skier in order to succeed – a body with a very high ratio of muscles & a low fat count. Ms Okoro says that started to work on her core muscles some 4 years ago and works specifically on her abs some 2-3 hours each week. For statistical purposes, Nancy is 169cm and weighs some 55 kilograms. Her latest muscle mass measurentns gave her 48.7 % - basically, off the charts , half of her…
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16Jul 2018 by DS News Team
Feeling Of Skiing – How Marwe Rollerskis Are Made

Feeling Of Skiing – How Marwe Rollerskis Are Made

Gear News, Newsfeed
Marwe Sports needs no long introduction. The company had long established itself as a golden standard in rollerski making, and when it talks of "feeling of skiing" - it's more than a corporate slogan, it's something many a national team, both in xcskiing and biathlon, can attest to. In order to understand how, in our rapidly changing world, Marwe manages to remain such a symbol of quality - and fun - the Daily Skier has traveled to the birthplace of Marwe skis. Well, two places, actually. Because flagship Marwe skis, 620 XC are assembled in two locations. Here's what we found & learned. ...Marwe's marketing manager Paul Fletcher inspects a plywood/Nomex combo core of the future rollerskis at the Peltonen factory in Heinola where all composite platforms are made. Paul…
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13Jul 2018 by DS News Team
World’s Best Abdominal Muscles, Pictured And Explained

World’s Best Abdominal Muscles, Pictured And Explained

Leaders, Newsfeed
On the photo above is a great looking washboard stomach. A skier's stomach ( of course - otherwise, why would it be here, on the xcskiing site?). A perfect combination of beauty - and function. ...It was in the 1990s when Professor Bengt Saltin made a discovery: with each generation, muscles of cross country skiers are growing. Although aerobic capacities have improved only marginally over the years, the strength and muscular endurance of the upper body of cross country skiers have become dramatically better . Famed scientiest, FIS expert etc. etc., Saltin had an extensive experience working with Swedish elite cross-country skiers. His conclusions: elite XC skiers of the 1990s demonstrated 15–25% larger fiber areas, especially in their arm and core muscles, than their counterparts of the 1970s! Fast forward 20…
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