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Jessie Diggins places fourth for second time this week at world ski championships Diggins and her Team USA teammates came up 8/10ths of a second short from medaling in the 4x5-kilometer relay.  March 4, 2021 — 3:24pm Text size Copy shortlink: For the second time this week, Jessie Diggins finished fourth in a race at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Thursday, the distance between the Afton skier and a medal was agonizingly close. Finland captured the bronze by 8/10ths of a second over Diggins and her U.S. teammates in the w...

Large hill events on schedule in second WSC week © NordicFocus The competition activity in Oberstdorf has moved to the HS 137 large hill for the second week and for Nordic Combined, one more Individual Gundersen event and one Team Sprint are still on schedule. In both events, the German home team are the title defenders with Eric Frenzel holding the title in the Individual and together with Fabian Rießle in the Team Sprint. The silver and bronze medal will have to find new owners as 2019 silver medallist Jan Schmid has since retired and bronze me...

Cross-Country 25 Feb 2021 Image by NordicFocus The first set of medals of the Cross-Country races at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf are delivered. Jonna Sundling from Sweden crossed the finish line first, taking a clear victory before the defending World Champion Maiken Caspersen Falla from Norway and Anamarija Lampic from Slovenia. For the 26 year-old Jonna Sundling it was only the second start at in a event of the World Championships. After missing the podium in the Sprint of Seefeld by only 0.3 seconds, Sundling made up ...

Lau competes at World Ski Champs TT skier Nicholas Lau. - PHOTO COURTESY TT SNOWSPORTS FEDERATION TT skier Nicholas Lau opened his Nordic World Ski Championships campaign in Oberstdor, Germany, on Wednesday. Lau, competing in the men's 10K event, finished 73rd among the 85 participants that completed the event. Lau ended in 34 minutes and seven seconds (34:07.0). Winning the event was Mark Chanloung of Thailand in 24:23.8, Campbell Wright of New Zealand was second in 24:53.2 and Martin Moeller of Denmark took third spot in 25:17.0. Brazilian Victor Santos was the only competitor not to finis...

He moved from Venezuela, discovered winter and became world-class skier Chip Scoggins, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Eduardo Arteaga at Theodore Wirth Park. The married couple from the suburbs found a house in a section of Minneapolis they knew nothing about, but the living room's wood floors and wide views out the bay windows took their breath away. They had to have it. As a bonus, Theodore Wirth Park was so close that it felt like their own backyard with its expansive ski trails and endless beauty. It was all perfec...