04Jan 2018 by DS News Team
“ChaosLoppet” Or Most Impressive Ski Race Of Season, All For Wrong Reasons

“ChaosLoppet” Or Most Impressive Ski Race Of Season, All For Wrong Reasons

Leaders, Newsfeed
Whichever way you slice it, the 15k mass start race at Tour de Ski on Thursday is bound to be remembered and talked about for a long time. For those who missed the “show” from German Oberstdorf: the rain turned the ski track into a distant cousin of skating rink while curvy downhills made the race totally unpredictable affair. Pretty much everyone had a fall, a broken pole or at least a stumble. Even flats were dangerous: no lesser athlete than Heidi Weng fell at the last meters of the distance, seemingly without a reason. Swedish Aftonbladet has summed it all up in one phrase “Chaosloppet The mass start in Oberstdorf was chaotic, crazy with dangerous crashes and incidents” Marcus Hellner ( fell on the distsance) "It was a strange…
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29Nov 2017 by DS News Team
Post-trip Musings: Why You Should Consider Going To Gällivare

Post-trip Musings: Why You Should Consider Going To Gällivare

Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport
It's standard procedure to write stories about events before they happen – "upcoming event intro" as it's known in business. Helps to remind the audience what to expect - and when, There is one fault with that – a writer/reporter rarely sees & feels the atmosphere of the event ahead of time. So, today we are going to try the other formula – telling you about the event after it happened, in due hope that you'd consider visiting the said event (or indeed the venue of thereof) in the future. [caption id="attachment_5939" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Crowds gather for 10/15 k classic race at the Gallivare Premiere[/caption] So, the Gällivare Premiere http://www.sporteventgellivare.com/en/the-gallivare-premiere/, the cross country skiing event that gathered ( and, one hopes, will continue gathering) the world skiing elite in the…
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15Nov 2017 by DS News Team
Gällivare Premiere: Skiing Stars Gather In Swedish Lapland

Gällivare Premiere: Skiing Stars Gather In Swedish Lapland

Leaders, Newsfeed
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbhTEsnhqA7/ "We never had such a strong line-up of participants like we have this year!", the organizer of the Gällivare Premiere, Stefan Nieminen, can't hide his satisfaction. He – and the team he runs – also look very tired from having to work from 5AM in the morning till 8PM at night to to make the competitions. It's not easy to prepare the tracks fit for Olympic and world champions. https://www.instagram.com/p/BbiJKiCBtJP/ Out of 21.000 cubic meters of farmed snow that were stored from last year only some 14.000 have survived the unsually rainy summe of Swedish Lapland. But that's was just enough to lay crucial parts of the track – and then Mother Nature helped the last moment with a snowfall. The Olympic champions Marcus Hellner of Sweden ( after…
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