I’m continuing to pick and choose which nations in Fasterskier’s countdown to write about. The US and Canada I’ll cover later in more detail, and I’m written about Japan a fair bit in the past. A couple of comments in their write up about Kazahkstan stuck out to me. The first was the comment about […]
Tagged alexey poltaranin, anastasia slonova, kazahkstan, season preview, World CupThe FasterSkier countdown continues (and is joined by NordicXplained). Per usual, I like reading about the nations I don’t always follow as closely, like the Ukranians. The distance results for the four skiers mentioned in the FasterSkier article are below: Roman Leybyuk had a string of strong results between 2002 and 2006, but has been […]
Tagged kateryna grygorenko, lada nesterenko, roman leybyuk, season preview, ukraine, valentina shevchenko, World CupFasterSkier’s piece on Belarus over the weekend naturally got me thinking about their performances. As they note in that article, they’ve had some wild times, including the famous “lucky” silver medal by Leanid Karneyenka in 2007 thanks to an early start position and a freak snowstorm, and their mishap in the team sprint relay in […]
Tagged alexander lasutkin, belarus, leanid karneyenka, michail semenov, season preview, sergei dolidovich, World CupIn the same vein as my previous post following up on Spain’s WC prospects, the FasterSkier series next looked at Lithuania. I’m sometimes curious why some of the former Soviet republics aren’t better represented in cross country skiing. I imagine many of them have struggled economically since the breakup of the USSR and national sports […]
Tagged irina terentjeva, lithuania, ricardas panavas, season preview, vida venzene, World Cup