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Frida Karlsson and Iivo Niskanen both went winless last International Ski Federation Cross-Country World Cup season, but already have their first victories of the new campaign thanks to triumphs in Ruka.

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Thursday, 20 May 2021 The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) has announced the addition of seven more athletes to its team for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, meaning 16 have now had their places at the Games confirmed. Four ski cross specialists and three Alpine skiers have joined the team, most notably womens ski cross world champion Sandra Näslund who finished fifth at the Sochi 2014 Games aged 17, before placing fourth at Pyeongchang 2018. Also part of the squad are ski cross brothers Erik...

Delphine Claudel (FRA) racing a skate sprint qualifier, in 2019, Davos, Switzerland (Photo: NordicFocus) Living in France for the past year, and with ski racing never far from my mind, I was interested in learning more about the athletes and system here, particularly for the women. While the French men’s team is a force to be reckoned with, both in sprinting and distance, results, or even athletes, on the women’s side are sparse. For example, at the Oberstdorf World Championships in Germany...

Olympic champion Charlotte Kalla and world champion Jonna Sundling are among the athletes named on the Swedish cross-country skiing squad for the 2021-2022 season.

Sweden names elite squads for 2021-2022 cross-country season Tuesday, 4 May 2021 Olympic champion Charlotte Kalla and world champion Jonna Sundling are among the athletes named on the Swedish cross-country skiing squad for the 2021-2022 season. Kalla, a three-time Olympic gold medallist who won the 15 kilometres skiathlon at Pyeongchang 2018, confirmed last month that she would continue her career following a difficult campaign. The 33-year-old battled injury as well as coronary heart disease ...

Weng wins World Cup Finals in Engadin Cross-Country 14 Mar 2021 The grand finals of the COOP FIS Cross-Country World Cup season were held with the 30km/50km Pursuit competitions at Engadin valley in Switzerland. The course track of the Engadin Skimaraton was the stage for the long distance competitions as the traditional popular race could not take place due to Covid. In Saturdays 10km C Mass start, the ...

Diggins became just the second American to win the World Cup overall globe. She finished the season with 1,347 points, besting Russia’s Yulia Stupak’s 1,079. Stupak was third on Sunday, as Norway’s Heidi Weng won. In the overall category, Ebba Andersson of Sweden — second on Sunday — was third with 1,011. That late performance allowed her to fend off another American, Rosie Brennan. Brennan finishes fourth in the World Cup overall with 919 points. Diggins also won the d...

Copy shortlink: On another warm day at the Nordic world ski championships, Jessie Diggins wore a uniform more suited for summer training than for winter racing. The Afton native tried to stay cool in shorts and short sleeves Tuesday, but she just missed the medals with a finishing fourth in the 10-kilometer freestyle. Temperatures in Oberstdorf, Germany, reached 58 degrees at race time and felt even toastier under a bright sun. Norways Therese Johaug won in 23 minutes, 9...

Norway's Therese Johaug blew away the rest of the field to win the women's 10km freestyle event at the FIS Ski World Championships on Tuesday in a time of 23:09.8. Johaug finished 54.2 seconds ahead of Swede Frida Karlsson in second, with Ebba Andersson, also of Sweden, taking bronze. "That is definitely the best ski race I have ever done," a jubilant Johaug told broadcaster NRK.