NORDIC SKIING: Johaug continues unbeatable run at World Championships in Seefeld
The amazing comeback story of Norway’s Therese Johaug continued at the Nordic World Championships in Seefeld (AUT) with her second win, this time in...
NORDIC SKIING: Amazing Johaug routs the field for eighth Worlds gold in Nordic Worlds
The FIS Nordic World Championshuips in Seefeld (AUT) will continue for another week, but the amazing comeback story of Therese Johaug has to be...
NORDIC SKIING Preview: World Champs in Cross Country, Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping start...
The worlds of Cross Country Skiing, Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping have come together in Seefeld (AUT) for the 41st FIS World Nordic Championships,...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi wins 11th in Willingen, while Lundby sweeps Obertsdorf
The stars of the World Cup season took over this weekend, with big victories in Germany.
Japan’s Ryoyu Kobayashi, who came out of nowhere to...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Stoch tries to defend Willingen Five title in Germany
Both the men’s and women’s World Cups are in action in Germany for the final competitions before the Nordic World Championships in Austria that...
SKI JUMPING: Takanashi ends Lundby’s win streak at six in Ljubno
The conditions were much less than ideal, with so much wind that the qualifying round for the women’s jumpers in Ljubno (SLO) had to...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Kobayashi looks for 11th win this season; Lundby trying for six...
With two weeks to go to the World Nordic Championships, there are two more stops on the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup tour, starting...
SKI JUMPING: Zajc, Kobayashi and Stoch triumph in Obertsdorf Ski-Flying weekend
This was the first weekend of jumping off the massive ski-flying hills of more than 200 m, in this case the 235 m hill...
SKI JUMPING: Ski Flying season takes off in Obertsdorf!
Your typical hill for most men’s World Cup ski jumping competitions is 130-150 meters, certainly a challenge. But this week’s jumping will be off...
SPEED READ: Headlines from The Sports Examiner for Monday, 28 January 2019
Welcome to The Sports Examiner SPEED READ, a 100 mph (44.7 m/s) review of what happened over the last 72 hours in Olympic sport...
SKI JUMPING: Austria’s Kraft and Norway’s Lundby sweep weekend jumps
Two jumpers – Austria’s Stefan Kraft and Norway’s Maren Lundby – dominated the men’s and women’s competitions this weekend in Japan and Romania.
Kraft (AUT),...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Will Sapporo be a happy homecoming for Kobayashi?
Exactly halfway through the men’s World Cup schedule for 2018-19, the superstar of the first half of the circuit will be jumping in front...
SPEED READ: Headlines from The Sports Examiner for Monday, 21 January 2019
Welcome to The Sports Examiner SPEED READ, a 100 mph (44.7 m/s) review of what happened over the last 72 hours in Olympic sport:
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SKI JUMPING: Veterans Kraft and Iraschko-Stolz collect wins in Zakopane and Japan
Good weekend for two of the storied jumpers in the history of the sport: Austria’s Stefan Kraft and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz.
Kraft, who dominated the 2016-17...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Kobayashi faces Stoch, Kubacki and Zyla … in Poland
The amazing season for Japan’s 21-year-old Ryoyu Kobayashi will get one of its sternest tests this week in Zakopane (POL), where he will face...
SPEED READ: Headlines from The Sports Examiner for Monday, 14 January 2019
Welcome to The Sports Examiner SPEED READ, a 100 mph (44.7 m/s) review of what happened over the last 72 hours in Olympic sport...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi equals all-time World Cup record of six consecutive wins
The amazing story of 22-year-old Japanese star Ryoyu Kobayashi continued at Val di Fiemme, as he won his sixth straight World Cup event, overwhelming...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Can Kobayashi keep his streak alive? How about Althaus?
The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup continues for the men in Val di Fiemme for the men and in Sapporo (JPN) for the women,...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi completes Four Hills sweep with win in Bischofshofen!
In the first 65 editions of the Four Hills Tournament, only Germany’s Sven Hannawald had managed to win the sport’s “Grand Slam” by winning...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi wins second Four Hills tourney at Garmisch
When Poland’s Kamil Stoch swept all four stages of the Four Hills Tournament last year for the first time since Sven Hannawald (GER), who managed...