I love the Tour de Ski – always have (even when it was just a twinkle in Vegard Ulvang’s eye), always will (even after Northug reels off five straight wins starting this year). I’m especially jazzed for the 2011-2012 edition, since it’s the only major event of the season and is thus getting all the focus of the big-name racers. Before getting to my picks for the prologue in Oberhof and for
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.