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02/06/2013 || Thoresen ready for a change ||Arena||
Petter Thoresen has achieved a lot of success both as athlete and coach, but after this season it looks as though he will not be so visible at the big races. Thoresen will end his work as head coach after this season. “This is my fifth year as head coach for Norway. Before that I […]
02/06/2013 || Hubmann – back among the very best ||Arena||
Daniel Hubmann’s season last year stopped with the European Championships in Sweden. He became injured just before finishing his leg in the relay. Now is he back, near to his best. He was second and sixth in the first two races of the Nordic Tour. “It’s going well”, he says, “and I hope I can […]
02/06/2013 || Niggli – 3 good months of training ||Arena||
Since March Simone Niggli has done very well in training. So top results as usual when the Swiss star began her World Cup season. The mother of three won the sprint and the middle distance in the first World Cup races she took part in this season. Niggli didn’t go to New Zealand in January […]
02/06/2013 || Too old for JWOC – “a pity!” ||Arena||
Every weekend since the start of the year, Tove Alexandersson has either been to a training camp or taking part in races, but do you think that makes the Swedish athlete tired? No way! Much has happened in Tove’s sporting life so far this year. In January the first-year senior impressed a lot in New […]
01/06/2013 || Lundanes needs time out ||Arena||
The Norwegian double World Champion Olav Lundanes is not present at the races in the Nordic Tour. He is tired. On Monday this week Lundanes was selected for the Norwegian team for the first two races in NORT. Two days later the decision was taken that he won’t take part at all. “He needs to […]
01/06/2013 || “Traditional sport in new & exciting format” ||Arena||
Norwegian Sports Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on the left handed over the prizes to the best men at the sprint race in Oslo. From left: Daniel Hubmann, Switzerland. Matthias Kyburz, Switzerland, Tue Lassen, Denmark, Christopher Smithard, Great Britain, Matthias Merz, Switzerland and Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Denmark. Photo: Erik Borg The Norwegian Minister of Health Jonas […]
01/06/2013 || Kyburz: “Good to see I have the level” ||Arena||
Mattias Kyburz won Saturday’s race in Oslo. Photo: Erik Borg With a margin of 16 seconds, Matthias Kyburz won the fourth World Cup race this season and showed that he is really back in business. “I have been a bit unsure of myself recently”, says the World Champion in sprint in Lausanne. When he took […]
17/02/2013 || Took off his skis – and won! ||Arena||
In the middle of the last leg the Norwegian Hans Jørgen Kvåle just took of his skis and ran as fast as he could up a steep hill. And that decided the battle for gold. “I felt that Andrei Lamov (Russia) was a bit stronger than me, and that the route choice of running up […]
17/02/2013 || “Oh yes, I did look behind me” ||Arena||
On the last part of the last leg in the women’s class, the Russian Tatyana Kozlova was hard-hunted by last winter’s overall winner of the World Cup. When they passed the arena before the last part of the course there was just six seconds difference between Kozlova and Josefine Engström on the Swedish team. “I […]
17/02/2013 || Emphatic win for Norwegian juniors ||Arena||
Photo: Erik Borg Two twins, and a daughter of one of the best ever ski orienteers, put together a terrific victory in the Junior World SkiO Championships (JWSOC) women’s race. “The others must have made a mistake on the first control”, Marta Ulvensøen says. She had the first leg for Norway’s junior girls and was […]
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