Dario Cologna is an incredible athlete, who won 4 Overall World Cup titles, 4 Olympic gold medals, 4 Tour de Ski and the World Championships. He is at the peak of his career now and is, undoubtedly, one of the best cross-country skiers of today. Dario Cologna was born on March 11, 1986, in Santa Maria […]
Continue readingIivo Niskanen, a cross-country skier from Finland, became an Olympic champion in men’s 50km classical. It’s the second Olympic gold for the athlete as in 2014, he was a gold medalist in team sprint.Olympic Athletes from Russia, Aleksandr Bolshunov (a silver medalist in relay, team sprint and bronze medalist in individual sprint) and Andrey Larkov […]
Continue readingSwiss Dario Cologna won in men’s 15 km freestyle, finishing in 33 minutes 43.9 seconds, and became the first cross-country skier, who won this event three times. Besides earning 3 gold medals in this discipline in 2010, 2014 and 2018, the athlete is also a gold medalist of 2014 Winter Olympics in 30 km skiathlon. […]
Continue readingYesterday, we had a fully Dutch podium in speed skating. And today, all the podium places in men’s skiathlon were occupied by the athletes from Norway. The gold medal was earned by Simen Hegstad Krueger, who finished in 1 hour 16 minutes 20.0 seconds.Martin Johnsrud Sundby, a silver medalist of 2010 Olympics in 4×10 km […]
Continue readingMen started to compete in cross-country skiing at the Olympic Games in 1924, 28 years earlier than women (link: 2018 Winter Olympics The Most Astonishing Cross Country Skiing Women Posters). The disciplines they compete in are the same, however, the distances are different. Thus, men compete in 10 km, 18/15 km, 30 km, 50 km, […]
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