Cross-country (XC) skiing has been an Olympic event since the first Winter Games in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Due to more effective training and tremendous improvements in equipment and track preparation, the speed of Olympic XC-ski races has increased more than that of any other Olympic endurance sport. Moreover, pursuit, mass-start, and sprint races have been introduced. Indeed, 10 of the 12...

A report on two friends Since the outbreak of peace and prosperity in Europe forty years ago skiing has become one of the most popular pastimes , and now many of its ageing devotees have had their hips replaced, they are still sound in wind, are they also sound in limb? They feel physically restored, the snows and the slopes beckon, should they accept the challenge or should 'wiser councils pre...

OBJECTIVE To critically examine the literature on skiing and snowboarding injuries in children and adolescents. DATA SOURCES Searched English language articles from: Medline, SPORTDiscus, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Current Contents, and HealthSTAR. The table of contents for Ski Trauma and Skiing Safety Series published by the American Society for Testing and Mat...

The purpose of this retrospective case series was to review the demographics alpine skiers who sustain tibial plateau fractures, evaluate inter-observer reliability Schatzker classification for fractures sustained while skiing, and patient-reported outcomes. We hypothesized that most would be low-energy fracture patterns (Schatzker I–III) occur in women less-experienced skiers. Charts radiograp...

Tournament water skiing is an increasingly popular and internationally successful sport in Great Britain, despite the climate. The kinematics and injury patterns of the three disciplines will be unfamiliar to most clinicians and are described, with estimation of the stresses. Advances in equipment over the last 15 years have reduced the risk of severe injury in the tricks event, while high spee...

Abstract Cross-country (XC) ski races involve a variety of formats, two different techniques and tracks with highly variable topography environmental conditions. In addition, XC skiing is major component both Nordic combined biathlon competitions. Research in this area, the laboratory field, encounters certain difficulties that may reduce reliability validity data obtained, as well complicate c...

Researchers have, for decades, contributed to an increased collective understanding of the physiological demands in cross-country skiing; however, almost all of these studies have used either non-elite subjects and/or performances that emulate cross-country skiing. To establish the physiological demands of cross-country skiing, it is important to relate the investigated physiological variables ...