Category: Regional
On September 25, Madshus launches the brand new Team Madshus Norway, a unique development team consisting of 4 young talented cross-country skiers and biathletes with their eyes set on the top of the World Cup podium.
Kristin Størmer Steira is looking forward to the 2014 Olympics, but she does suspect the Sotchi Games will be her last major event.
“The distance doesn’t worry me. It is the monotony that concerns me,” says Madshus racer Thomas Alsgaard (NOR).
Madshus racer Geir Ludvig Aasen Ouren (NOR) joins the new Team NPRO, consisting of four elite marathon ski racers aiming to challenge the established marathon teams for the FIS Ski Classics events.
This spring, polar guide Inge Solheim (NOR) led an expedition of wounded British soldiers to the North Pole, a feat in itself but also a new world record. The expedition was the first ever to reach the North Pole with two amputees on the team. The expedition brought a BBC film crew along, as well as the Expedition Patron HRH Prince Harry, who joined the expedition for four days of the trek.
Barbro Kvaale (NOR) collected no less than four gold medals – out of four possible – during the 2011 FIS Rollerski World Championships in Aure/Kristiansund (NOR) August 9-13. That was more than expected for the Madshus racer.
Geir Ludvig Aasen Ouren (Madshus) and his teammate polished off the brutal mountain bike adventure race north of the Arctic Circle in 67 hours and change, winning the event with margin of 12 hours and 25 minutes to the second-place team.
Sweden hires Marko Laaksonen as the new head coach for the national women´s biathlon team.
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg talks about her summer, looks back at her first season at the senior level and her plans for the future. Including a bungee jump that she is dreading.
Geir Ludvig Aasen Ouren (Madshus) imponerte i sykkelrittet N3-Norefjellstrippelen 2. juli. Rittet inngår i Norefjellstrippelen, som blir arrangert for andre gang i år og består av skirenn, sykkelritt og løp.