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Diggins third, leads tour de ski overall standings.

The momentum kept on moving for the Stifel U.S. Cross Country Ski Team in the second stage of the Tour de Ski with Jessie Diggins clinching the podium in third place in Toblach, Italy. Rosie Brennan was just off the podium in fourth place and Ben Ogden was ninth in the 10k classic.

It was Diggins' 52nd career podium and fifth individual podium of the 2023-24 season, and she now officially leads the Tour de Ski overall standings by seven seconds going into Monday's 20k skate pursuit. Right in the fight with Diggins was Brennan, who crossed the line in fourth place, adding another top-five result to her stellar 2023-24 resume.

For the men, Ogden led the team in ninth place after his podium finish on Saturday and now is the overall points leader for the Tour de Ski points standing - celebrated after the conclusion of the men's race with Ogden doing a backflip off the podium wearing the yellow bib. He is also third in the chase for the Tour de Ski overall. Off the start line, he was posting positive splits and never ventured out of the top 10, and is in a good place entering the third stage. Gus Schumacher also skied a strong race and finished in 15th, another strong result for the Alaskan. 

In stage two of seven, athletes attacked a fast, icy and challenging 10k classic. With 91 starters for the men and 66 for the women, the field was stacked in Toblach. With women out of the gate first on the two-lap course that featured steep uphills and fast downhills, each athlete pushed to end the year 2023 on a good note with top results. 

In the women's race, Novie McCabe was the first American out for the interval start format. Following McCabe was Sophia Laukli, Brennan, Sammy Smith, Diggins and Julia Kern. Through the splits, Brennan and Diggins were in the fighting position for podiums throughout the entire race, with Brennan leading at 2.1k, 3k, 5k, 8k time checks. Brennan's result adds to her stellar 2023-24 season, where she has only ventured out of the top-10 twice. 

"I wanted to ski with conviction today and go out and see what was possible, so I tried to set a good pace from the beginning and hold on," said Brennan, post race. "I did that relatively well, I lost some time at the end, but sometimes that the way it works! But I am really proud about how I was skiing today and am happy to have a stronger race than yesterday."

At the end, Diggins pushed into another gear to land on the podium, with Brennan just seconds out of the top three. 

"Today was really cool to get to share my day with my family. I heard them out on the course and that was amazing to have them there in person, as they don't get to see many races live," said Diggins. "Also, my skis were amazing again today. I mean, this is a team sport, not an individual sport; it's a team effort and you can't succeed in this sport without competitive skis and our techs are working so hard and our success today was in a big part because of them. I'm just really grateful and really proud about today!"

McCabe scored top-30 World Cup points in 29th. Laukli took 39th, Smith 52nd and Kern 59th. 

Rounding out the men, Scott Patterson was 40th, Zanden McMullen 50th and Kevin Bolger 72nd. 

On Monday, the journey in Toblach ends with the 20k pursuit skate race, with men kicking off the line at 4:00 a.m. ET and women at 6:30 a.m. ET. 

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TOBLACH HOCHPUSTERTAL, ITALY - DECEMBER 31: Jessie Diggins of the United States celebrates after the award ceremony for placing third at the FIS World Cup Cross - Country Tour de Ski 10km on December 31, 2023 in Toblach Hochpustertal, Italy. (Photo by Grega Valancic/VOIGT/GettyImages)

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With no Olympics or world championships this season, the annual Tour de Ski takes on greater significance for cross-country skiers.

American Jessie Diggins built a substantial 47-second lead through the first three of seven stages, seeking to win the Tour de France-like event for a second time.

She was ninth in the opening freestyle sprint last Saturday, then third in a classic 10km on Sunday before winning a 20km freestyle pursuit on Monday for her American record-extending 17th FIS World Cup victory.

Diggins was fourth-fastest overall in Monday’s pursuit, but she was the first starter due to her seven-second lead in the Tour standings after the first two stages.

Nobody caught her, and she added 40 seconds to her lead going into the fourth stage, Wednesday’s freestyle sprint in Davos, Switzerland.

That’s followed by 20km and 15km classic races on Thursday and Saturday, then Sunday’s grueling, closing 10km climb up Alpe Cermis in Italy.

In January 2021, Diggins became the first skier outside Europe to win a Tour, which at the time was the biggest individual title of her career. She since won her first two individual Olympic medals (silver and bronze) and last February became the first American to win an individual world title in the sport.

In 2021, Diggins led by five seconds after three Tour stages and by the end won by 1:24.8, the fifth-largest margin of the 17 women’s Tours held so far.

This year, her 47-second lead is greater than the difference between second place and 10th place.

Diggins also leads this season’s World Cup overall standings, which takes into account every race from November into March, through 12 of 34 scheduled races.

In 2021, she paired her Tour de Ski crown with a World Cup overall title, becoming the second American — and first American woman — to claim the latter.

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‘It feels historic’: U.S. Cross Country Ski Team enters Tour de Ski in unprecedented territory

Rosie Brennan of the United States competes in the women's cross-country skiing sprint qualification during the Tour de Ski on December 30, 2023 in Toblach, Italy. (Photo by Mathias Bergeld/Bildbyran/Sipa via AP)

As they took the course Saturday for the first leg of the Tour de Ski in Toblach, Italy, the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team was in rarefied territory.

The U.S. women’s team entered with Jessie Diggins leading the World Cup points race and teammate and Alaskan Rosie Brennan close by in third. While Diggins won the overall in 2021, the U.S. has used a depth of talent to find success that may be unparalleled for the Americans in four decades of World Cup racing.

“It feels historic for sure,” said former U.S. Ski Team member and Olympian Holly Brooks, who has followed the early season action from her home in Anchorage. “To have the depth and to have two of the top three skiers being in contention is really extraordinary.”

The men’s team hasn’t produced eye-popping results, but they too have been on the rise. Packed with a young nucleus of skiers including multiple Alaskans, the U.S. men have also achieved some momentous finishes.

In email exchanges with ADN, members of the U.S. Ski Team described what led to their unprecedented early season success and what their expectations are for the remainder of the season.

Brennan and Diggins both believe the success of Team USA’s skiers is a continuation of a slow ascent and not a quick, unexpected leap.

“We’ve had a lot of people just putting in the work consistently, year after year,” Diggins said. “That really starts to build over time. So many members of this team, we’ve got this awesome depth. All of that work is coming up to the surface.”

The United States' Jessie Diggins celebrates winning a women's 10 km freestyle race at the cross-country ski World Cup, at the Österund ski stadium in Ostersund, Sweden, on Dec. 10. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)

Since arriving in Alaska in 2011, Brennan said, she’s maintained a very consistent training routine, currently working with Erik Flora and the APU Elite Team. She said illness kept her from reaching her potential last year in the season’s first period, and the success of the team now is giving her season even more visibility.

“I wish I could say there was one magic thing I did that changed everything, but that’s not the reality of ski racing or many pursuits,” she said. “It’s been many years of small improvements and lots of work that add up to good things. ... The overall success of the team seems to have simply drawn more attention so people are actually noticing.”

Brooks said in conversations she’s had with former U.S. Ski Team members like Alaskans Kikkan Randall and Sadie Bjornsen Maubet, and chatting with local skiers on the Hillside and at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, the enthusiasm level is high.

“People are just so engaged,” she said. “It’s fun to have a horse in the race. I mean, it really wasn’t that long ago where top 30s were celebrated. And now I feel like, every weekend in period one, we had someone, if not multiple people, on the podium.”

While Brennan, 35, and Diggins, 32, have been stalwarts, there’s also an influx of young skiers. At 22, Novie McCabe already has a stellar resume. McCabe, from Winthrop, Washington, won three national titles at the University of Utah and was a 2022 Winter Olympian. She joined the APU team this year and has high aspirations after finishing seventh last season in the Tour’s final stage.

“I think that the key for me this year will be treating each day as a new opportunity and not dwelling on the day before too much,” she said.

Julia Kern, Sophia Laukli and 18-year-old Sammy Smith round out the women’s roster for the Tour. Smith is coming off an impressive performance at the Winterstart Super Tour in Anchorage.

Brennan said the team has an excellent blend of youth and experience.

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“We have a really young team now, which often means a lull in results as some athletes move on and the young ones get their feet under them,” Brennan said. “This crew has now had a few World Cup seasons together and things are clicking, so we are seeing great results all around.”

J.C. Schoonmaker of the United States competes in the men's sprint during the FIS Cross-Country World Cup on Dec. 9 in Östersund. (Photo by Johan Axelsson/Bildbyran/Sipa USA)

Perhaps the most surprising result of the U.S. Ski Team’s World Cup season to date came from J.C. Schoonmaker. A former UAA skier and current APU athlete, Schoonmaker finished on the podium in a sprint race in early December in Östersund, Sweden. He was followed closely by teammate Ben Ogden, marking career bests for both as well as the first time the U.S. had two men racing in a sprint final.

Ogden, 23, has been a stalwart of the team in recent years. Alaskans Schoonmaker, Gus Schumacher and Zanden McMullen give the Americans three more skiers on the Tour de Ski team who are 23 or younger. Another 23-year-old Alaskan, Luke Jager, raced for the Americans in the World Cup season’s first period but isn’t competing in the Tour.

“They’re all around the same age,” Brooks said. “They’re really some of each other’s best friends, so I think it feels like less of a sacrifice to put so much time and energy into it. They are competitive with each other but in a really healthy way. And so I think they push each other and, you know, that success breeds success. I think a lot about kind of the contagion effect of confidence.”

Ogden had a breakthrough moment of his own Saturday, finishing third in the Tour skate sprint race for his first career podium. That finish combined with Schoonmaker’s run in Östersund marked the first time in 40 years that two American men earned World Cup podium finishes in one season, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard. The last time that occurred was in 1983, with Tim Caldwell and Bill Koch finishing on the podium in Anchorage. Ogden’s podium finish was the 10th overall for Team USA in the 2023-24 season.

Ben Ogden (left) and Gus Schumacher celebrate after Ogden's third-place finish at the Tour de Ski sprint final on Saturday. Dec. 30, in Toblach, Italy. (Photo provided by U.S. Ski and Snowboard)

Brooks, who spent five seasons on the World Cup tour a little over a decade ago, said racing predominantly in Europe takes some getting used to for young skiers.

“Skiers are packing their bags in November and they’re not coming home for the most part until March, so you’re living out of a suitcase for five months a year,” she said.

With experience and success, the younger Americans are starting to find their comfort level.

“I think for some of the younger people on our team, we’ve just gotten more adapted and adjusted to this World Cup lifestyle, so we show up to the races knowing we belong there,” Schoonmaker said.

That sense of belonging and success has translated into confidence. For Ogden, gaining confidence to compete at the World Cup level has been a process. Last year he earned the U23 green bib, putting him among the best in the world at his age.

“The biggest thing that comes from successful early season races is confidence,” Ogden said. “Confidence in our ability to ski with the top dogs here on the World Cup and confidence that we can compete multiple times back-to-back. After a few good races in period one, I am personally feeling excited for the coming races.”

An APU athlete, Schumacher has been consistent this season, a regular top-25 finisher in distance races. On Saturday, he finished 18th in the skate sprint, the highest such finish of his career.

“It’s been really fun on this team this year,” Schumacher said. “Especially on the men’s side, it feels like we all ride the wave together, so that’s been a fun boat to be aboard.”

Despite making his first start on the Tour races, McMullen is eyeing some top-20 finishes after a strong first period.

“It’s easy to find that confidence when I’ve been training with such a strong team all year,” he said. “Being able to believe in my training and race as hard as I can has proven to be a great formula.”

The men’s team for the Tour de Ski also includes Kevin Bolger and another APU athlete, Scott Patterson.

World Cup races in the United States are rare, with only one in the past 34 years. A race scheduled for Minneapolis in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the World Cup is returning to race in Minnesota this season. The races at Wirth Park in Minneapolis in mid-February should only help to continue the American ascent in cross-country skiing.

The races will be especially poignant for Diggins, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota.

“I’m so excited,” Diggins said. “It’s been so cool to see how excited everybody is about it. It’s so cool that we’re rallying around this as a country and seeing this excitement grow. I’m hearing from clubs that are road-tripping out there and people that are making plans and making this part of their winter vacation. That’s so cool and exciting.”

The U.S. team continues to race in Toblach on Sunday, in the 10K classic for the second stage of the Tour.

Chris Bieri

Chris Bieri is the sports and entertainment editor at the Anchorage Daily News.

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Tour de Ski Viewing Guide: December 31–January 8, Val Müstair, Oberstdorf, and Val di Fiemme

Welcome back from the holidays to this Tour de Ski edition of the viewing guide. Hope you had lots of good skiing and time with loved ones.

The World Cup crew has had a break of just under two weeks since their last race. For those athletes contesting the full Tour de Ski, they’ll be jumping into seven different races, in three different countries, over nine days, starting tomorrow. Some athletes are going into stage one planning on contesting less than the full Tour; Iivo Niskanen, for example, who is returning to World Cup racing following both Covid and the birth of a child , plans to reassess after the first three races and decide at that time whether or not he will continue on into race number four and following.

You can find a full list of American starters for this year’s Tour here . The short version is that eight men and five women will be starting for the U.S. The only American to make a Tour de Ski podium across the first sixteen years of the Tour’s existence, Jessie Diggins (third overall in the 2017/2018 Tour, first overall in 2021), is among those five athletes. She is joined by, among others, Rosie Brennan, whose highest Tour de Ski finish of sixth places her second all-time among non-Diggins Americans (Liz Stephen was fifth in the 2014/2015 Tour).

The best roundup of starters from most other nations may be found in this Twitter feed . By this point, less than 24 hours before the first race, you can also just consult the official start lists for tomorrow’s skate sprint: men and women .

There are 100 men and 71 women on the start list for the opening stage of this year’s Tour de Ski.

Here is when and where the races will be held over the next week:

Val Müstair, Switzerland (local time at venue: GMT +1, six hours ahead of East Coast Time)

Oberstdorf, Germany (local time at venue: GMT +1, six hours ahead of East Coast Time)

Val di Fiemme, Italy (local time at venue: GMT +1, six hours ahead of East Coast Time)

Need help viewing the races from the U.S.? Here’s our full article on how to watch .

Stay tuned for what Nordic Insights’ coverage of this year’s Tour de Ski will look like. Our lead reporter, Gavin Kentch, will be on site in Houghton all week for U.S. Nationals (assuming he ever leaves the Chicago airport, where he currently is), and will be covering those races full time. We anticipate having additional reporters jump in so as to be able to cover the Tour as well alongside this domestic racing. Bear with us as we navigate our way through the single biggest ski week in the year, across a range of time zones.

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Finally, I want to be sure to share these thoughts from American skier Finn O’Connell in advance of the Tour. O’Connell has start rights for this year’s Tour de Ski by dint of being the top-ranked skier through two race weekends and seven races in Period 1 of this season’s domestic SuperTour circuit. Earlier this month I asked O’Connell about his process goals for his World Cup debut, about what he learned through qualifying for the World Cup via a Tour de Ski–esque stint of seven races in twelve days, and about the financial costs of racing in Europe. Here are his answers, via email to Nordic Insights:

“I am indeed accepting my starts at Tour de Ski! I am very excited to get over there and finally get the chance to prove myself against the best in the world. I wouldn’t change how I am getting my first WC starts for any other way. At the end of last year, I was unsure whether or not I would be done racing. I have always wanted to be a pilot, and I was thinking about starting to pursue that route. However, making the US Ski Team made that decision easy for me. I then sorta assumed I would get Period 1 WC starts. But I found out early July this wasn’t the case. This made me more determined to train smarter and harder through the summer and fall. I still stand by the fact that it’s harder to make the WC then stay on the WC. The SuperTour circuit is so competitive these days that I knew it would be incredibly hard to get over there. But I did, and here we are.

“My process goals don’t change much going into the Tour than going into Period 1 of the SuperTours. It’s 8 vs 7 races in a very short time. My goal is to trust my training and fitness and see where that takes me. I need to prioritize rest, and eating lots of food, and success will come. I have yet to do a WC and have yet to race many of the American guys there in a long time, but my goal is to finish Val di Fiemme as the top American!  The second question ties into that answer. If I do the same thing as the last 7 races, I should be able to feel the same this time. And with the ease of being on the WC, like not having to worry about waxing skis, or cooking meals, it should be even better!

“Being COC [Continental Cup, in this case the American SuperTour] leader gets me funding from FIS directly, and also being a member of the [U.S. Ski Team] B Team covers all world cup expenses as well. So the funding is covered while I am there. I should say though that it is harder for us small teams, talking about the Bridger Ski Foundation, to raise enough money for a season of training and racing domestically. We have to cover racing expenses for most of the season, and we work very hard to have enough funding to just get us through the summer and fall training camps, as well as the early season racing. We just launched a campaign if people want to help support my team.”

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Discover how to follow Jessie Diggins in action during the Tour de Ski as she attempts to regain the title she last won in 2021.

The 2023/24 Tour de Ski in cross-country skiing is about to begin, and the United States' Jessie Diggins , a previous winner from 2021, is favoured to win the women's title again.

Diggins is the current World Cup overall leader, and with reigning champion Frida Karlsson in doubt due to ongoing illness and form issues, will be tough to dislodge.

The 2021 champion gets her campaign underway alongside everyone else with a sprint race in Toblach, Italy on Saturday, 30 December.

Skiers will compete across seven stages, moving from Toblach to Davos, Switzerland, before the finale on the famously steep and gruelling mass start in Val di Fiemme, Italy.

Results from the Tour de Ski will also count towards the World Cup standings.

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Toblach, italy.

• Stage 1 - Saturday, 30 December - Women's 1.5km sprint freestyle (qualification begins at 6:00am ET, 3:00am PT; finals begin at 8:30am ET, 5:30am PT)
• Stage 2 - Sunday, 31 December - Women's 10km interval start classic (6:15am ET, 3:15am PT)
• Stage 3 - Monday, 1 January - Women’s 20km pursuit freestyle (6:30am ET, 3:30am PT)

Davos, Switzerland

• Stage 4 - Wednesday, 3 January - Women's 1.5km freestyle sprint (qualification begins at 8:30am ET, 5:30am PT; finals begin at 11:00am ET, 8:00 am PT)
• Stage 5 - Thursday, 4 January - Women’s 20km pursuit classic (4:45am ET, 1:45am PT)

Val di Fiemme, Italy

• Stage 6 - Saturday, 6 January - Women's 15km mass start classic (5:30am ET, 2:30am PT)
• Stage 7 - Sunday, 7 January - Women's 10km final climb mass start freestyle (9:45am ET, 6:45am PT)

The full schedule and results can be found here.

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Tarjei Bö fortsätter minst en säsong till

Herrarnas störtlopp inställt, petter northug imponerade när han tog nm-silver med brorsan, amundsen vann totalcupen - kläbo vann loppet, sara hector tolva i saalbachs storslalom.

Tarjei Bö meddelar att han kommer att satsa minst en säsong till.

– Det är så enkelt att jag trivs väldigt bra med att vara skidskytt. Det är också kul att att jag kan fortsätta att utvecklas som 35-åring, säger Bö till norska VG.

Bö tog tre silver vid VM i Nove Mesto och blev tvåa i den totala världscupen efter lillebror Johannes Thingnes Bö. Tarjei Bö vann även sprintcupen för första gången sedan säsongen 2010-11.

Först blev det uppskjutet, men nu är herrarnas störtlopp helt inställt på grund av dåligt väder.

"Tyvärr, på grund av den nuvarande vädersituationen med vind och snöfall som påverkar banförhållandena, har dagens störtlopp ställts in, för att garantera säkerheten för idrottarna", skriver Fis på X.

Att tävlingen, den sista för säsongen, ställs in innebär att Marco Odermatt vinner störtloppscupen. Sedan tidigare hade schweizaren vunnit totalcupen, super-G-cupen och storslalomcupen.

Herrarnas störtlopp är uppskjutet till 13.00 på grund av dåligt väder.

Den här helgen avslutas den alpina världscupen. Vi sänder störtlopp från Saalbach. Damerna först ut på lördag och herrarna fortsätter på söndagen.

Petter Northug i par med brorsan Even tog silver i sprintstafett vid NM i Lillehammer.

– Det var som att vrida tiden tillbaka till 2006 när farsan stod och hejade i sista backen i Kongsberg, säger Northug som imponerade på den femte sträckan där han tog in mycket på Byåsens Didrik Tönseth som växlade över till Johannes Hösflot Kläbo. Byåsen tog ett säkert guld och Kläbo log glatt åt legendaren Norhugs kolossala framfart.

Northug tog ut sig fullständigt och såg drucken ut när han omtöcknad gav intervjuer.

– Jag är svimfärdig och tappade synen. Jag är som en gammal diesel men fick upp farten till min sista sträcka, säger Northug som gav publiken nostalgiska vibbar.

– Kläbo i all ära, dagens prestation stod Petter Northug för, säger NRK-experten Martin Johnsrud Sundby.

Under kvällens tävlingar har vi tyvärr inte möjlighet att hålla chatten öppen. Sändningen finns i toppen av artikeln att titta på.

Och med denna avslutning på världscupen i längdskidor så säger jag tack för mig för idag!

Johanns Hösflot Kläbo hade full kontroll och vann 20 km fritt masstart när världscupsäsongen avslutades i Falun.

In mot upploppet var Kläbo utmanad av landsmannen Gjöran Tefre som blev tvåa i sitt första lopp i världscupen.

– Det var tufft, hördes Kläbo säga strax efter målgång.

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Jens Burman blev bäste svensk som åtta efter att ha varit ha varit offensivt i loppet och legat i täten ett par gånger inför bland annat ögonen på kung Carl XVI Gustaf.

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Tour de Ski Stage 1: Start lists and start times for the sprint race

Everything is ready for the sprint races at the Tour de Ski Stage 1, Season 2023/2024. Here, you can find the start lists and start times for Saturday’s sprint races in freestyle technique.

Tour de Ski 2023/2024 is starting tomorrow. Here, you can find the start lists and start times for Saturday’s sprint races.

Now in its 18th edition, Tour de Ski consists of seven competitions over nine days in three different locations and two countries, and it’s the fifth stage of the 2023/2024 cross-country skiing World Cup. 

The event starts on Saturday, December 30, 2023, with a sprint in freestyle technique in Toblach, Italy, and ends on January 7, 2024, with a 10km Final Climb in freestyle technique in Val di Fiemme, Italy. See below the complete start list for Tour de Ski Stage 1.

See the complete program for the Tour de Ski 2023/2024 at the end of the article .

Saturday, December 30, 2023 – Toblach/ITA: Sprint Freestyle

• 12:00 CET: Sprint Quali F, Women
• 12:38 CET: Sprint Quali F, Men
• 14:30 CET: Sprint Final F, Men
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FACTS Tour de Ski Season 2023/2024

• When:  Saturday, December 30, 2023, to Sunday, January 7, 2024 
• Who:  Elite national skiers – women and men
• Where:  Toblach/ITA, Davos/SUI, and Val di Fiemme/ITA
• What:   FIS  Tour de Ski

Saturday, December 30, 2023 – Toblach/ITA: Sprint Freestyle  (More details can be found here )

• 14:30 CET: Sprint Final F, Women 

Sunday, December 31, 2023 – Toblach/ITA: 10km Interval Start Classics ( More details can be found here ) 

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Monday, January 1, 2024 – Toblach/ITA: 25km Pursuit Freestyle ( More details can be found here )

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Saturday, January 6, 2024 – Val Di Fiemme/ITA: 15km Mass Start Classic ( More details can be found here )

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Also, what's the best way to get to the ski resort, or if they have any transport provided. Or is taxis possible, and approximate costs?

Thanks in advance!

> We are just beginners so do not require big long steep slopes

> I would like to know if there are any nearer ones or more accessible ones for us to visit

There's http://snej.com/ - year-round indoor skiing site just beyond the Moscow ring road. But it's not exactly near Red Square and not too convenient with public transit.

There are also very small slopes (mostly for little kids) in Moscow's city parks (like Kolomenskoe).

The nearest slope to Red Square is probably Sparrow Hills - there's a very decent slope from the hill to the river, and it's all in the park. But I don't know how skiing is organised there (if at all) - probably someone who lives nearby might have better information.

I agree with the previous speaker. Sparrow Hills will be the best choice for you.

Kant at Nagornaya is good for a beginner...

> hoping to visit a ski resort. We are just beginners so do not require big long steep slopes. ---

'slopes', so you mean *alpine* skiing of course.

I write this comment, because it may be of interest for you in case you like ski in general and not just the alpine variant.

In all northern Europe, from Norway until very far away at the end of Russia, 'ski' is first what english does name I guess 'cross-country'. For instance here in Norway ski is exactly that: an old mean of transportation turned into leisure and sport and it doesn't require slopes and infrastructure, just the snow on the ground. In winter I put the skis on at my front door and start skiing in the pathway among the houses until the paths in the forest around the corner. That's skiing. For a stroll or more intensive or training. Gliding for speed and fun on slopes equiped with chair-lifts and stuff, it's *alpine*, that's something else. But plain real ski can be done anywhere so long there's enough snow.

When the ground is covered half the year in snow, the old obvious way to transport oneself from the farm of Thor to the farm of Odin is to glide on wooden planks. Well, for native americans the obvious way was instead snowshoes. Wooden planks are really the eurasian stuff. Oldest skis found by archeologs in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia are 3000 to 6000 years old. Long before oligarchs went skiing to Courchevel or Gstaad...

Sokolniki park is the southern end in the city of a bigger forest area: the national park "Moose Island", "Losiny ostrov"

Maybe of interest to you if you are not just an alpine guy.

You'll need snow to start with, and that's not guaranteed at all.

//You'll need snow to start with, and that's not guaranteed at all.

In http://snej.com, that Marassa has mentioned - 100% guarantee :-)

Well, anyway going to Moscow for mountain skiing shows an inventional mind.

Tastes surely differ.

In the US they make man made snow so you can ski if you absolutely must ski in Dec.

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The penultimate race of the twelve-stop FIS SBX World Cup tour as well as this winter's third of four team snowboard cross events will take place this weekend in Russia.

On 10 March 2018, riders will turn in on the home stretch of a long season with this World Cup winter's eleventh snowboard cross race being staged in Lata Park. One day later, the exciting team event is on the programme on the same course.

Designed almost 40 years ago, Lata Park, a sport complex located west of the capital near the Krylatskoye area, has been host to many events so far including being a venue for the 1980 Olympic Summer Games.

Almost four decades later, the small resort will become the third ever in Russia to host a SBX World Cup competition since Sochi 2013 and Sunny Valley 2016.

With the Moscow event being the first of the final two stops of an exciting season, the race for the coveted crystal globes could be decided this weekend as 2018 Olympic Champions Michela Moioli (ITA) and Pierre Vaultier (FRA) are comfortably leading the respective ladies' and men's standings.

However, it is an easier task for the French to seal the deal on Saturday.

Vaultier is currently sitting on 6,520 points. And as runner-up Alessandro Haemmerle (AUT; 4,840) is already 1,620 points behind, an eighth rank finish would be enough for the 30-year-old to secure his career's sixth title given that his Austrian rival would be able to earn back-to-back wins in the last races.

In the women's event, Moioli has lost some of her advantage last weekend placing 14th in La Molina, Spain.

With a total 6,810 points under her belt, she has to bring home a good result to keep herself apart from her pursuers.

But French trio Chloe Trespeuch (5,890), Charlotte Bankes (5,600) and Nelly Moenne Loccoz (5,540) are keen to give the Italian some hard time earning her career's second World Cup title since 2016.

The qualifiers for the Moscow SBX are slated for 10 March at 14:30 (12:30 CET) with the night finals following at 18:00 (16:00 CET).

The season's third Team SBX is scheduled for 11 March at 11:30 (9:30 CET).

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