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Crossover skiers hit peak performance China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-05 09:18 Share CLOSE Athletes compete at the 2020-2021 China Cross-Country Skiing Championships in Baiyin, Gansu province, on Monday. XINHUA LANZHOU, Gansu province－This week's 2020-2021 China Cross-Country Skiing Championships in Baiyin feature many crossover athletes aiming to make a breakthrough at next year's Winter Olympics on home snow. Fifteen-year-old Lei Chengjie, a former judoka who has had just 60 days of ski training, won four bronze medals at the championships repr...

Canadian women set new track record to win gold; men’s squad earns silver HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS – For the second time in as many weeks, Canada earned a pair of World Cup medals in the Team Pursuit. The Canadian women’s team set a new track record to win their second straight gold medal in the discipline, while the men’s squad earned silver earlier in the day to kick-off the ISU World Cup Speed Skating in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. The women’s team of Ivanie Blondin (Ottawa, Ont.), Isabelle Weidemann (Ottawa, Ont.) and Valérie Maltais (Saguenay, Que.) made it back-to-back gold m...

It was a thrilling neck-and-neck race between Julian Schmid and Jakob Lange this past Sunday afternoon at the FIS Nordic Combined Continental Cup in Park City/Utah. The two Germans were fighting for the win until the very last meters. In the end it was Schmid, who crossed the finish line 0.1 seconds ahead of his teammate. Reason enough to name both of them “Athlete of the week” this time. Lange, who had won all three events in Park City / Soldier Hollow last season, was able to continue his winning stroke in the first competition 2020/21 on Friday. With an outstanding cross-country perfor...

Double victory day for Julian Schmid in Park City © USA Nordic Germany’s Julian Schmid made it two victories in one day, winning the final event of the FIS Nordic Combined Continental Cup opener on the Olympic venue at Soldier Hollow in the USA. Schmid held off a strong charge to the finish from teammate Jakob Lange. Schmid had won the Mass Start earlier in the day. Germany’s David Mach came from behind to make it a German sweep. After the three event opener in Utah, defending champion Jakob Lange held the Continental Cup lead 260-236 over Schm...

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