How To Make Snow and $10 Skate Ski Lessons

by | Fitness

I saw this note from Trail Monster Jeff Walker about a Skate Ski clinic at Pineland Farms next Monday: Morgan Laidlaw, the coach of Maine Coast Nordic and the Bill Koch League skiers, is offering a beginner skate skiing clinic at Pineland on Martin Luther King Junior...

Bode Miller wipes out but still wins

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Bode Miller wiped out at the finish line of the Lauberhorn race this morning but still beat Didier Cuche by 0.65 seconds. This is his 25th career World Cup win, only 2 shy of the record. It is his fourth downhill victory so far this season, double what he had last...

Bode Miller wins on Beaver Creek Birds of Prey

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Bode Miller gave us an American win for the Beaver Creek Birds of Prey course in the World Cup downhill competition this week. He missed a gate in the Super-Combined event on Thursday after a course worker slipped and fell onto the course, but he dominated the...

Never Showboat in the Olympics

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Lindsey Jacobellis blew it. She had an Olympic gold medal in hand with only two jumps left in the snowboard cross finals, and she decided to showboat. She came down on her heels and fell off the course. I hate to say it, but she deserved what she got. Tanja Frieden of...