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Australian World Cup cross-country skier Callum Watson has withdrawn his entry from the 2011-2012 FIS Tour de Ski. The 22-year-old from Sydney had been overseas training for the event since the start of November, however a collision during an interval session in early December disrupted his preparation. The FIS Tour de Ski is the premier [...]
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The trip to this event involved a rather interesting solo driving adventure for sole Aussie athlete Callum Watson, an amusing account of which can be read on Callum’s blog. But he did make it to the 15km mass start classic, managing to hold on to the pack for almost a third of the race, which [...]
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The weekend saw some impressive results from 20-year-old Mt Beauty athlete Phillip Bellingham, who achieved FIS points under 120 (twice in two days!) for the first time in his career. These results were a great improvement on Bellingham’s strong performance during the Australian season, particularly in the Australian Sprint Championship in August, and allow him [...]
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Exactly three years after making his World Cup debut in Davos, Switzerland, Callum Watson lined up this weekend to kick off the European racing season for 2011/2012. Early preparations for the 22-year-old athlete began in November in Anchorage, Alaska, before moving to one of Europe’s only pieces of (artificial) snow in Davos. The lack of [...]
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The 2011-2012 World Cup season kicked off on the weekend and Alex Almoukov made his cross country World Cup debut in Sjusjoen in Norway. Alex finished in 90th place, 14.2% behind the winner in the 15km Freestyle, a solid result in his first hitout against the world’s best cross country skiers. Read on below for [...]
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On Sunday March 13 Esther Bottomley took 14th place in the 42km Freestyle Engadin Ski Marathon, Switzerland’s Worldloppet event. The Engadin Ski Marathon is the biggest of the world’s freestyle ski marathons, with around 12,000 skiers taking part annually. This was Bottomley’s first attempt at the Engadin. Katie Calder’s 10th place in 2008 is Australia’s [...]
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50km Report Fifty kilometre races at World Cup and World Championship level are always tough. When you have slow skis, they’re even tougher. Unfortunately the boys didn’t have great skis today. Ben Sim finished 63rd, Callum Watson 66th, and Chris Darlington and Ewan Watson were 72nd and 73rd when they were pulled from the race [...]
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Ben Sim and Callum Watson combined in the Team Sprint yesterday to finish 19th out of 25 teams. The guys were 10th in their semi-final and about 8 seconds faster than 10th placed New Zealand in the other semi. Both Simbo and Callum felt a lot better than they did in the 15km Classic the [...]
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It was another full day for the service team today with four men racing the 15km Classic. Waxing was a bit tricky and the general consensus was that the Aussie crew did… okay. The results were a bit lower than we hoped for. Three out of four guys had good grip (with the exception of [...]
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The last two days in Oslo have seen the women’s 15km Pursuit and men’s 30km Pursuit. Though in the women’s race the fog was so thick the athletes were only spotted now and then. Esther Bottomley was 52nd in the 15km out of relatively small field of 56 starters. In the 30km Ben Sim was [...]
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