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Devastating News for U.S. Nordic Combined Athletes as Organization Fails to Secure Sufficient Funding for Upcoming Season Training

Two years ago, USA Nordic Sport negotiated a partnership with the Norwegian Nordic Combined Federation to offer U.S. athletes the best training opportunities for the World Cup and in the lead-up to the 2026 Olympics. Unfortunately, this partnership appears to have come to a sudden end as the necessary fundraising goal of $150,000 could not be met by the agreed […]
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Trying to Beat the Heatwave: German Resort Oberstdorf Attempts Snow Farming for the First Time

Oberstdorf, Germany, is trying to enable cross-country skiing from October through snowfarming, picture: Oberstdorf.de

The German resort of Oberstdorf is experimenting for the first time this year with snow farming. Snow farming is the attempt to preserve the snow from the previous season for the next season by piling it together and covering it. In a way, it is ‘snow-recycling’. The advantages of snow farming are: guaranteed snow for events/opening days lower energy than […]
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Equal Distance, Equal TV Coverage? New Cross Country Skiing Proposal Equalizes Distances in Men’s and Women’s World Cup Events

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For most of us in the Northern Hemisphere the month of May signals goodbye to the snow as we reluctantly stow our skis away for the season, unless of course you are Miles Clark and are killing it in Mammoth for the month of May: Related:  Mammoth, CA Report: Bluebird Powder Day in May at 7:30 am Related: Sierra Nevada, […]
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