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05Nov 2019 by DS News Team

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

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?

26Oct 2019 by DS News Team

Finnish Riddle

Money & Finance, Newsfeed

World-class athletes running in the races broadcast on the national television with massive ratings and ever increasing interest from sponsors.... Sounds like an ideal Nordic skiing competition? Well, not so fast. Painstakingly, year after year, the Finnish Ski Association, working togeher with the country's national public broadcaster YLE, built a seemingly very local event, the Finnish Cup , into a television blockbuster , watched on TV by over half a million Finns. That's more than 10% of all adult population - massive ratings for cross country skiing! However, with the first stage of the Cup less than three weeks away, it's still totally unclear whether the popular event will be shown this year, Ilta-Sanomat reports A bone of contention is television rights. The Finnish Ski Association sold those rights to…

24Oct 2019 by DS News Team

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.

22Oct 2019 by DS News Team

Nathalie Von Siebenthal Quits International Skiing Just Weeks Before Season Start

Newsfeed

No reason for unexpected decision by Switzerland's best distance skier - and one of the best in the world was given except for this : " Head and body have resisted...Now I'm looking forward to being at home on New Year's Eve, going for free weekends and going cross-country skiing as long and as slow as I want." Swiss broadcas SRF quotes a 26 year's old skier. We could only add that Nathalie was universally liked on the international skiing circuit for her mild manners and friendly disposition to media. Natalie was also one of the only two world class skiers (the other one is Martin Sundby) to do not have official presence on Instagram.

10Oct 2019 by DS News Team

Jean-Marc Draeyer, Man Who Picked SLABs For You ( If You Are Maja Dahlqvist That Is)

Gear News, Newsfeed

Meet Jean-Marc Draeyer, Salomon Nordic head of race ski production. " Production" means that Jean-Marc calls Altenmark im Pongau his home ( and not Annecy where Salomon Nordic's main unit is located) and makes sure that Maja Dahlqvist and Sjur Rothe along with other Salomon athletes get best gear to fight for the podiums. S/LAB Carbons and Redster Carbons are made on the same production line, by the same skilled workers but are very, very different skis, developed by two different teams. Moreover, the Carbons Sjur and Maja use and those you could buy in your nearest friendly Intersport or XXL are made exactly the same, from the same components by the same people. What's different is that Jean-Marc and personal waxers of the stars have a first peak of…

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