July 21, 2019 – Nordiq Canada’s competition model has been updated with new ‘U-(age)’ nomenclature for competition categories for the 2019-2020 ski season. The Competition Model remains a model, i.e. it reflects the optimal development of an athlete from the Active Start stage to the Training to Win stage. Therefore, the guidelines per stages of development are appropriate for athletes of the corresponding average age ranges as long as those athletes’ states of development (or developmental age) indeed correspond to the stage of development associated with the age range.

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