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Cross-Country Skiing

Cross-Country Skiing. By Andrew Carr. About the Sport. About the Sport

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Cross-Country Skiing

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  1. Cross-Country Skiing By Andrew Carr

  2. About the Sport • About the Sport • Paintings thought to be at least 6,000 years old, discovered in Russia in the 1930s, show a hunter alongside some reindeer. The hunter is wearing skis, clearly illustrating that using two wooden slats to travel quickly on snow has been central to survival in cold climates for centuries.By the year 1500, the entire Swedish army was fully equipped with skis; the Norwegian army held cross-country ski competitions as early as 1767. The first civilian cross-country ski event took place in Tromso, located in Norway’s far north, in 1843.Cross-country skiers competed at the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France, in 1924, in 18-kilometre and 50-kilometre races for men. Ladies’ cross-country skiing made its debut at the Oslo 1952 Olympic Winter Games. The cross-country skiing technique known as skating or free technique, became a separate Olympic competitive discipline at the Calgary 1988 Winter Games. • How It Works • Racers use two basic techniques in cross-country skiing: classic technique, where the skis move parallel to each other through machine-groomed tracks in the snow, and free technique, where skiers propel themselves in a manner similar to speed skating, pushing off with the edge of their skis. Free technique uses shorter skis and is slightly faster than classic — on average about eight per cent faster over an entire race distance.In Olympic cross-country skiing, women compete in individual sprint, team sprint, 10 km individual start, 15 km pursuit, 30 km mass start and the 4 x 5-km relay. Men compete in individual sprint, team sprint, 15 km individual start, 30 km pursuit, 50 km mass start and the 4 x 10 km relay. The technique used (classic versus free) in the 10 and 15 km individual start, individual sprint, team sprint and mass start alternates with each cycle of Olympic Games.

  3. People competing • Germany ANGERER Tobias • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 179 cm (5' 10") Weight: 72 kg (159 lbs) Nationality: Germany Date of Birth April 12, 1977 Age 32 • Kazakhstan ANTONOVA Elena • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 176 cm (5' 9") Weight: 62 kg (137 lbs) Nationality: Kazakhstan Date of Birth April 22, 1971 Age 38 • Ukraine ANTSYBOR Maryna • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 161 cm (5' 3") Weight: 54 kg (119 lbs) Nationality: Ukraine Date of Birth October 10, 1987 Age 22 • United States ARRITOLA Morgan • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 163 cm (5' 4") Weight: 53 kg (117 lbs) Nationality: United States Date of Birth May 13, 1986 Age 23 • Canada BABIKOV Ivan • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 172 cm (5' 7") Weight: 69 kg (152 lbs) Nationality: Canada Date of Birth July 4, 1980 Age 29 • Slovakia BAJCICAK Martin • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 169 cm (5' 6") Weight: 70 kg (154 lbs) Nationality: Slovakia Date of Birth June 12, 1976 Age 33 • Republic of Moldova BALAN Sergiu • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 180 cm (5' 10") Weight: 72 kg (159 lbs) Nationality: Republic of Moldova Date of Birth August 15, 1987 Age 22 • Ireland BARRON Peter-James • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 174 cm (5' 8") Weight: 70 kg (154 lbs) Nationality: Ireland Date of Birth December 31, 1989 Age 20 • France BARTHELEMY Laure • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 167 cm (5' 5") Weight: 60 kg (132 lbs) Nationality: France Date of Birth August 5, 1988 Age 21 • Slovakia BATORY Ivan • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 188 cm (6' 2") Weight: 82 kg (181 lbs) Nationality: Slovakia Date of Birth May 3, 1975 Age 34 • Czech Republic BAUER Lukas • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 181 cm (5' 11") Weight: 73 kg (161 lbs) Nationality: Czech Republic Date of Birth August 18, 1977 Age 32 • Norway BERGER Lars • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing,Biathlon Nationality: Norway Date of Birth May 1, 1979 Age 30 • Norway BJOERGEN Marit • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Nationality: Norway Date of Birth March 21, 1980 Age 29 • Germany BOEHLER Stefanie • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 170 cm (5' 6") Weight: 54 kg (119 lbs) Nationality: Germany Date of Birth February 27, 1981 Age 29 • 1-15 of 301 items • 12345678910>

  4. People with medals • NorwayNORTHUG Petter • GermanyTEICHMANN Axel • SwedenOLSSON Johan

  5. Training • Training • Cross-country skiers have big hearts. The sport requires a large volume of aerobic training, especially for endurance events such as the men’s 50-kilometre mass start or the women’s 30-kilometre mass start. • High-performance athletes train twice a day, six days a week and up to 700 hours yearly. The style and volume of training depends on the events that a skier specializes in — sprinters do high intensity, low volume training sessions, while endurance cross-country skiers put in longer distances of various intensities. And because ski wax has such a big impact on Nordic skiing, athletes work with their wax technician during practice as well as race time to figure out the winning formula for them. • When they’re able to practice on snow, cross-country skiers do drills and warm ups for technical focus. This may include double poling (sometimes with a kick), speed bursts, and any mix of classical and free techniques. Sometimes they opt to ski without poles to focus on their kick and glide. • Off-season training consists of roller skiing, road and mountain biking, ski walking/striding with poles and some glacier cross-country skiing. Athletes also train in the weight room in an effort to maintain muscles specific to the skiing movement — bulk does not increase an athlete’s speed in cross-country skiing. • Proper and prompt recovery after training is important for injury and fatigue prevention. Recovery can involve eating immediately after training or racing, taking nutritional supplements, rehydrating, massage, stretching or yoga. To flush their muscles of lactic acid, cross-country skiers will dunk themselves in contrast baths, going from icy cool streams or tubs, to warm ones and back again. Because high-performance Nordic skiers train heavily, they put as much emphasis on recovery as on skiing.

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  7. video • http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-cross-country-skiing/videos/(afp)---brian-mckeever--the-1st-olympic-and-paralympic-winter-athlete_281082g127016-rJ.html

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  9. Here’s a competer • United States ARRITOLA Morgan • Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Height: 163 cm (5' 4") Weight: 53 kg (117 lbs) Nationality: United States Date of Birth May 13, 1986 Age 23

  10. websites • www.vancouver2010.com

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