From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

30km to the End

Though there are many storylines to tomorrow’s 30km freestyle mass start race, a dominant one is whether Aino-Kaisa Saarinen can make the podium and thus earn a medal in every event at the Liberec Worlds. A win and a fourth gold would put her ahead of the three-gold hauls of teammate Kuitunen at the ’07 Sapporo Worlds and Marit Bjoergen at the ’05 Oberstdorf Worlds.I don’t think the gold is in