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Monday, 31 July 2006
CALGARY (July 26) - U.S. women ski jumpers grabbed two more Continental Cup top-5 finishes and four other top-10s as the tour finished its annual visit to North America with a lightning-interrupted night competitio
n and then an afternoon competition the next day at Canada Olympic Park.
Germany's Juliane Seyfahrt made it four straight victories, adding two wins on the 95-meter hill to add to her sweep of the weekend events at Utah Olympic Park in Park City. Seyfahrt jumped 95 and 94.5 meters Wednesday to compile 242.0 points with Austrian Daniela Iraschko (87-93) second at 228.5; Tuesday night, Seyfahrt had jumps of 114 and 97.5 meters for 211.5, edging Iraschko, who jumped 107 and 99 for 206.0.
Top U.S. jumper Wednesday on the normal hill were Jessica Jerome (Park City, UT), who finished fourth with Lindsey Van (also Park City) tied for sixth and Alissa Johnson (also Park City) eighth. Tuesday night, Johnson was fifth with Van eighth and high school student Abby Hughes (also Park City) ninth. Jerome also led the American women last weekend at UOP, finishing fourth each night.
"It's a little frustrating," said U.S. Coach Casey Colby, "but we want to keep this in perspective. We've still got 18 events on the schedule. Our goals were not based on July 20. I'd like to have July back for training and then get into our normal competition schedule starting in August. I'm sure we'll have better results next month when we go to Europe."
Tuesday night, a storm closed in on Canada Olympic Park and lightning forced organizers to pull everyone off the jumps for about 45 minutes. The round was restarted and erratic winds, including a tailwind for much of the final round, plagued the jumpers, Colby said, although Hughes had the third-longest jump of the final round, going 100 meters to move into the top 10 in the final standings.
Colby said eight women will go to Germany for the next period of jumping - the five women nominated to the U.S. Ski Team and three women funded by Women's Ski Jumping USA. "Having the Ski Team cover the five is a great boost for the women's program because now we can get even more young jumpers to Europe, accelerating their development," he said.
The women have three events Aug. 6-12 in Germany and then conclude their trip Aug. 15 in Bischofshofen, Austria.
For complete results from Calgary:
http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=20109&cal_suchsector=JP
This news item originally appeared at the US Ski Team's website www.usskiteam.com.
The photo is a detail from the USSA's photo gallery.
Monday, 31 July 2006
SOLDIER HOLLOW, Utah (July 28) - U.S. cross country skiers are packing this weekend for their annual on-snow camp in New Zealand. They prepped for the camp, which runs until late August with a two-week camp that ra
nged from the 2002 Olympic cross country venue here to the Olympic skating oval in Salt Lake City.
"It's been another good camp," Head Coach Pete Vordenberg said, pausing as he and his staff conducted interval workouts from the main parking lot at Soldier Hollow, about 20 minutes east of Park City. "We've had a full turnout again and we've covered a lot of different elements."
The camp began with high-speed testing at the Olympic oval, sending athletes through a 120-meter course lined with lights and timers, a series of speed traps designed to measure start speed, acceleration and a drop in speed. The technology first was used a year ago on the five-man team; this year, with 14 athletes nominated to the 2007 cross country squad (with final naming expected by late summer), it took a little longer to complete, he said, but results showed continued improvement.
Overseeing the intervals session were Vordenberg and Continental Cup Coach Matt Whitcomb plus 2002 Olympian Kristina Joder, whose husband Pat Casey is Whitcomb's co-coach with the Continental Cup skiers, recording various individual data at the parking lot. Casey and World Cup Coach Justin Wadsworth drove the roller-ski route to keep an eye on the athletes as they pounded over the blacktop and back to the parking lot. University of New Hampshire Coach Sarah Walker took part in the management, too.
"I think it's important," Vordenberg said, "to look at this whole thing as a long process, but not one day escapes, either. Every single day is as good as it can be... every single day. It requires patience but also a kind of urgency. Every day you get out of the van and you know what you need to do, and you're ready... and you do it, so that at the end of every day you've made a step forward, even on a rest day.
"It's about details and being professional," he said.
Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK), who won three more U.S. titles last January at Soldier Hollow before coming up with the best alltime U.S. women's Olympic or World Championships cross-country result during the Torino Winter Games in February (ninth in the sprint), and who then produced the best U.S. women's World Cup showing (fifth in a sprint in Sweden), agrees.
"We're getting things done every day. This is great," she said. "There's something new every day."
Olympian Leif Zimmermann (Bozeman, MT), coming back from mononuleosis, added, "It's not just go to camp, go to a meeting, go home and watch TV, or whatever. We have a cook - Pat's mom is here, so we're able to come together and eat together, prepare food together and talk to each other so it's not simply training and training talk."
Walker is just the latest club coach to work with the national team, Zimmermann said. Colorado Coach Bruce Cranmer and Montana's Bridger Nordic Coach Dragan Danevski also have plugged into previous training sessions. "It's awesome to have so many other coaches here, looking to learn from Pete and the staff," Zimmermann said. "I hope more come when we get back from New Zealand. There's good energy - and it's a really good environment."
Two-time Olympian Andrew Johnson (Greensboro, VT), who was the first to join the U.S. residence program in Park City in 1999 after taking leave from Middlebury College, echoed his two Olympic colleagues. "This training we're doing now, I really enjoy it," he said. "This training's fun. It feels very productive. It's high quality training and feels like every minute of every workout we're accomplishing exactly what we want to do. There's no wasted time."
At the same time, Vordenberg cautions, the current camps are merely a snapshot of what the end product can be. "I think it's important to look at this whole thing as a long process, but not one day escapes, either. Every single day is as good as it can be...every single day.
"It requires patience but also a kind of urgency. Every day you get out of the van and you know what you need to do, and you're ready...and you do it, so that at the end of every day you've made a step forward, even on a rest day.
"It's about details and being professional."
This news item originally appeared at the US Ski Team's website www.usskiteam.com.
Friday, 28 July 2006
The construction of the venues in Whistler for the 2010 Winter Olympics are going, "exceedingly well," according to Read Full Story
/07/24/74_0607241352-106" class="InNewsLink" target="_blank">www.vancouver2010.com.
Two new venues are currently being constructed - the Sliding Center and the Nordic venue. The Sliding Center will host the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton events of the Winter Games. It is expected to be completed by the summer of next year.
Meanwhile, the Nordic venue's construction is also on-going. According to the report, the ski landing sites have already been cleared and graded. By the end of the summer, the foundations of the ski jump structures are expected to be completed.
Aside from the construction of new buildings, other existing venues are also being upgraded. An example of which is the site of the ski competitions.
To read the entire article, visit the 2010 Winter Olympics' website at www.vancouver2010.com.
The image is from the website's photo gallery.
Thursday, 27 July 2006
Bloomberg has reported yesterday that governing agencies of skiing and rowing urged the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to ban the use of altitude tents. The tents help in increasing an athlete's supply of red bloo
d cells which translates to an increase in one's endurance.
International Skiing Federation's Secretary General Sarah Lewis was quoted as saying that a ban of the tents would level the playing field on countries who can afford such equipment and those who cannot. According to the same report, the tents which are also known as hypoxic tents, cost $5,000 while a room can be converted into one for $25,000.
The WADA will announce their decision on this matter on September.
To read Bloomberg's report, please visit their website at www.bloomberg.com.
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
The website www.stuff.co.nz has reported on Austria and Norway's agreement to have their speed training toge
ther on Mount Hutt in New Zealand next month. The announcement will come as a surprise to many since both countries are well-known rivals in the world of alpine skiing.
The Austrian team will include Benjamin Raich who won two gold medals in this year's Winter Games in Torino. He will be joined by four-time World Cup champion Hermann Maier along with their other teammates. Meanwhile, the Norwegian team includes Kjetil Andre Aamodt who has 20 Olympic and World Cup medals under his belt.
To read the complete report, please Stuff's website at www.stuff.co.nz.
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