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16Dec 2019 by DS News Team

Equipment Update: What We Saw In Davos

Davos is a special FIS World Cup stage because that's the place where bosses and key personnel of the top equipment producing companies choose to congregate at, year after year. We will have a separate little story telling you who's been around this year, but it's fair to assume that the captains of the industry are not just coming to breath that fresh Swiss mountain air - but to watch their latest gear being employed to win and to talk to athletes they sponsor. That's not to say that Davos has become the place to launch your latest & bestest, alas. We openly hope the day will come. But even the last week there were a few debuts or just relative rarities we saw - and will share with you.…

11Dec 2019 by DS News Team

New Salomon S/LAB Carbon Skate Boots Are Here! First Proper Look

Gear News, Newsfeed

- When we say "they are here" we mean that the first pairs left a production facility and ended up on the feet of the very few selected athletes sponsored by Salomon who are competing in the World Cup. - Predictably, Salomon is not yet giving away much information about the new boots, neither technical nor price/availability. Some bits we were able to glean - and are happy to share here with you: - Salomon is officially supporting Pilot system for another few years, but with Jessie Diggins switching to Prolink this season, there are no Pilot-athletes left at the World Cup level. In other words - we seriously doubt there will be anything but Prolink. [caption id="attachment_13919" align="alignnone" width="1920"] New S/LABs are ably modeled here by Clement Parisse from…

10Dec 2019 by DS News Team

Clarification & Retraction: Fischer’s Air Core Is NOT Nomex

Gear News, Newsfeed

Our story about ski cores stated unequivocally that all the leading manufacturers except for Madshus use DuPont-made Nomex® honeycomb in their top-of-the-line racing models while using in-house made honeycomb in cheaper skis. That is factually wrong - and Fischer Nordic got in touch to object and to correct us. Says Tanja Winterhalder, Fischer Nordic's head of PR & marketing "Our Air Core is patented and made by Fischer. The Air Core is specially adjusted to our design and materials and as a result the power transmission is better". The Air Core ( together with carbon sheeting it's attached to officially known as Air Core HM Carbon) is underpinning Speedmax and , since a lion share of all ski competitions is being won on Speedmaxes, we have no reason to put…

04Dec 2019 by DS News Team

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…

29Nov 2019 by DS News Team

How Much Anti-Doping Efforts Cost? Now We Know

Money & Finance, Newsfeed

FIS just sent out a press-release according to which " the overall investment into the Anti-doping programme during the 2019/20 season is budgeted with approximately 1.5 million Swiss Frank's " That's 1. 4 million euros or 1.5 million dollars. Or the price of holding two very decent international skiing meetups. Or one lavish one. Mind you, that's excluding testing by the national Anti-doping agencies. Separately, FIS states that in out-of-competition period in April-November 2019 it conducted 1612 tests of which more than half, 824 to be precise were aimed at cross country skiers with Alpine skiers, jumpers, Nordic combines and snowboarders being another roughly half. You could read out story describing how doping control works in practice here Pictured: anti-doping officer keeping a close eye at " her" athlete before…

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