nordic combined

The USSA Junior Olympics for ski jumping and Nordic Combined concluded last weekend in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where more than 60 competitors from across the nation were vying for junior national titles. It was an exciting week for five members of the Itasca Ski Club, who base their training at Mt. Itasca in Coleraine. Kyle Rodgers, Tyler Hutchins, Andre Denney, Somer Schrock and Henry Kavanagh-Beltman competed on the 68-meter ski jump at Howelson Hill in Steamboat Springs.  

The final weekend of the FIS Cross Country World Cup will feature a multi-stage mini-tour at the traditional Swedish Ski Games in Falun. In Friday's opening prologue, Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) kicked it off finishing 36th to lead the U.S.. Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk won the women's 2.5K prologue, followed in second by Norway's Marit Bjoergen and Charlotte Kalla of Sweden in third. In the men's 3.3K prologue race Switzerland's Dario Cologna won.  

Local shops hold their own impromptu 'Pretend Third Friday' today, while the village has identified a new organizer to run the official event moving forward. It's been a long winter for many Main St. retailers, and now that the sun is out they are looking forward to a burst of business, and to the return of Third Friday. Third Friday, the monthly community entertainment and business-boosting event, has been on hold for the winter.  

Long before Brett Camerota was an Olympic silver medalist, before he even made the U.S. Ski Team, he was a card-carrying member of the Park City Nordic Ski Club for 10 years. Brett and twin brother Eric were drawn to the jumps at Utah Olympic Park at age six when their family moved to Park City, and there they began a love affair with the sport that led them into nordic combined, in which athletes are scored for their performances in both ski jumping and cross-country skiing. So the Olympic Park is wh  

The Park City Nordic Ski Club took 10 athletes ages 12-16 (J2) and 16-18 (J1) to the 2010 Junior Olympics in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on March 2 to 6. The event was made up of individual and team events for as many as 60 athletes aged 11-18. The Park City Nordic Ski Club was very successful again this winter in the ski jumping and nordic combined events.  

For four-time Olympian and 2010 Olympic Silver Medalist Johnny Spillane, competing in the Nordic combined is nothing new. Growing up in Steamboat Springs, Colo., ski jumping and cross country skiing was a common pasttime for his neighbors and friends. His first Olympic competition was at the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games in which he placed 32nd in both sprint and individual events.  

"It was kind of a rough day but it's all over now and we're psyched to be done," U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team Head Coach Dave Jarrett said. "These guys are all pretty tired. We were hoping to finish a little better, but it wasn't meant to be today." According to Jarrett, the competitors faced challenging conditions on Sunday, with alternating head and tailwinds causing the conditions to change second by second and affecting a great number of jumps in the competition.

It was kind of a rough day but it's all over now and we're psyched to be done   -Dave Jarrett

 

Finland's Hannu Manninen won the Nordic Combined event Saturday at the Lahti Ski Games for his 48th World Cup victory. Manninen started the 10-kilometre cross-country skiing race in 12th place but quickly took the lead and finished in 25 minutes, 8.6 seconds. Felix Gottwald of Austria was second, 28.4 seconds back.  

Overall World Cup winner Jason Lamy-Chappuis of France won the final Nordic combined event of the season on Sunday in Oslo, Norway.