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.

How to Lose a Relay in 20 Minutes Or Less

This particular piece of analysis isn’t especially timely, but after observing the most painful 24 minutes of elite skiing I’ve ever watched, I feel compelled to rant anyway.Germany — and in particular, Axel Teichmann — seems not to have gotten the memo that things have changed. There was a time when Norway was the whiny traditionalist country that hated the mass start, there was a time when