Interview with Andy Newell after the Dusseldorf Team Sprints

December 6, 2009 (Dusseldorf, GER) – The US XC Ski Team’s Andy Newell and Torin Koos put on another great show in Dusseldorf at the Team Sprints finishing in 6th with the world’s best. … READ MORE → 0 comments

Beitostolen Men’s World Cup Relay – Team Canada Interview

November 23, 2009 (Beitostolen, Norway) – At the 2009 Nordic Worlds in Liberec in February the Canadian men’s relay team scored a top level 5th and they were back in limelight at … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Interview with Alex Harvey

November 20, 2009 – Alex Harvey is an extraordinary athlete, given the gifts of his prodigious athletic ability. His ski racing last winter, took a huge jump forward and he’s … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with West Yellowstone’s Drew Barney

November 19, 2009 (West Yellowstone, MT) – As thousands of skiers prepare to make the yearly pilgrimage to West Yellowstone’s fall festival, Drew Barney is hard at work making preparations as he has for … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Interview with Devon Kershaw

November 17, 2009 (Bruksvallarna, Sweden) – Following his fabulous start to the season with a win in the 15km skate on Day 2 of the FIS races in Bruksvallarna, Sweden this past weekend, we … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Vegard Ulvang

November 11, 2009 – Vegard Ulvang was one of cross-country skiing’s greatest champions, having won three Olympic gold medals. During his long career the man born in Kirkenes, Norway was recognized for his stunning … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Interview with Chandra Crawford

November 6, 2009 – With less than 100 days to go until the Vancouver Olympics get underway, Chandra Crawford, is still most focused on making the Canadian Olympic team. She’d like a … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Interview with Sean Crooks

October 30, 2009 Sean Crooks, a Thunder Bay, Ontario native, has gained invaluable World Cup and Olympic experience over the last two three years that he will take with him on the … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Interview with US XC Ski Team Coach Pete Vordenberg in Lake Placid

October 27, 2009 (Lake Placid, NY) – As the head coach of the U.S. Ski Team since 2006, Pete Vordenberg has overseen some of the biggest successes of the program in the last 20 … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Stratton Mountain’s Sverre Caldwell

October 26, 2009 (Stratton, VT) – Sverre Caldwell has been the long time Head Coach of Cross Country skiing at Vermont’s Stratton Mountain School. He’s seen it all from Juniors thru to the US … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Interview with Perianne Jones

October 20, 2009 (Canmore, AB) – Canadian XC Ski Team member Perianne Jones stepped onto her first set of cross-country skis at just three years old when she joined a Jackrabbit ski group … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Interview with Canadian Head Coach Inge Braten

September 22, 2009 (Canmore, AB) – Inge Braten is in his first year as the head coach of the Canada’s Senior National Team. For the last two years, Braten was working in media … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Interview with Virpi Kuitunen

September 18, 2009 – Strictly speaking, Virpi Kuitunen is one of the world’s best female cross-country skiers, hailing from a country of thick pine forests, with steel-blue lakes, and having a fondness … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Andy Newell Interview

September 4, 2009 – Andy Newell and I have a few things in common, aside from the fact that we were both born in Bennington, Vermont. Both of us were also very lucky … READ MORE → 0 comments

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Countdown to 2010: Interview with Top USA Junior Noah Hoffman

August 26, 2009 (Sun Valley, ID) – Following his high school graduation, Noah Hoffman decided to give himself a year to try his hand at competitive cross-country skiing. He spent his time in almost … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Interview with Shayla Swanson

August 18, 2009 (Canmore, AB) – Canada’s Shayla Swanson may have just begun her first year as a member of the Canadian Senior Development team but she has been a force … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Interview with Sweden’s Marcus Hellner

August 13, 2009 (Sweden) – As part of our Countdown to 2010 coverage, we’re also looking at some of the top international skiers coming to the Vancouver 2010 Games. With an Olympic … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Walter Hofer – Luck Plays too Important a Role

August 6, 2009 – Walter Hofer, 54 years old, is FIS Head of Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined and the man behind the idea of what might become the biggest revolution in the rules … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010: Interview with Liz Stephen

August 5, 2009 (Wanaka, NZ) – Liz Stephen started out her career as an alpine skier, talented enough to attend the famed Burke Mountain Academy. Stephen, a Vermont … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Interview with Morgan Arritola

July 30, 2009 (New Zealand) – Morgan Arritola is currently in New Zealand with many other US Ski Team members training at the Snow Farm there where there’s great snow as she and the … READ MORE → 0 comments

Countdown to 2010 – Lindsey Van Interview

JJuly 8, 2009 – Lindsey Van has spent well over a decade making a name for herself. This past winter, when the FIS held their first women’s ski jumping championships, … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Canada’s Alex Harvey

March 19, 2009 (Trondheim, Norway) – After his first World Cup season as a senior athlete Canada’s Alex Harvey has quickly made a name for himself not just as a rising … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Bjorn Daehlie

March 19, 2009 (Hayward, WI) – Norwegian xc ski legend Bjorn Daehlie recently competed at the American Birkebeiner for the first time and we partnered up with the Birkie and Douglas Karaszewski of Egami … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interviews with US Head Coach Pete Vordenberg and Torin Koos

March 8, 2009 (Lahti, Finland) – SkiTrax correspondent, Nathan Schultz of Boulder Nordic Sport, caught up with US XC Ski Team head coach Pete Vordenberg following US Team skier Kris Freeman’s 4th place … READ MORE → 0 comments

Q&A With Nordic Worlds Silver Medalist Kikkan Randall

February 24, 2009 (Liberec, Czech Republic) – The U.S. Ski Team’s Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) wrote a page in the history books of cross country skiing Tuesday as the first American woman to win a … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Andy Newell – Post Rybinsk

February 4, 2009 (Rybinsk, Russia) – We caught up with the US sprint star Andy Newell after his 5th place finish at the recent World Cup 1.3km skate sprint in Rybinsk, Russia. Newell is … READ MORE → 0 comments

Interview with Morgan Arritola

January 5, 2009 – Soccer star turned Nordic ski racer and US Ski team member Morgan Arritola used to dream of World Cup success on the playing field but when her family moved … READ MORE → 0 comments

Optimism for Liberec 2009 and Interview with Katerina Neumannova

October 16, 2008 (Liberec, Czech Republic) – The official Final Inspection for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec (CZE) took place on Monday, October 13. The organizing committee presided by Katerina Neumannova, … READ MORE → 0 comments


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