2009 FIS Tour de Ski China Shangri-la stage competition was successfully concluded yesterday at Shangri-la Ski Arena. This is the second time Shangri-la hosts a Tour de Ski China stage since it did successfully last year. The skiers and FIS officials gave praise to Shangri-las folk spirit, natural beauty, high standard ski arena as well as its excellent hosting and organization. Nordic Ways Intern...[More]

Shangri-la, China 2009.1.6 Anders Högberg skiing for IFK Umeå looks like he is having a great time in China. On Tuesday, Anders became the total winner of  Tour de Ski China which finished with a sprint in Shangri-la in southwest China, bordering on Tibet. The tough sprint competition on Jan 6 was won by Gaudenz Flury, Switzerland before Remi Damevin, France and Johan Edin, Sw...[More]

CHANGCHUN, China Anders Högberg became the winner of the 7th Vasaloppet China on Jan 2 2009.  -I am really happy about this victory, it means a lot to me. It was great to also be able to win a long distance race, said Anders after his victory.Before the race, the talk was mostly about if long distance specialist Fredrik Persson would defend his victory from last year or if Anders Hö...[More]

The conditions were great for the 7th Vasaloppet held in Jingyuetan Park on the morning of Jan 2, 2009. After an early breakfast, the skiers went by bus to Jingyuetan Park to warm up and make the final preparations. At 9:30, the over 10.000 skiers set out to go either 50 or 16.7 km in the light sunshine and a temperature of about minus 17 degrees celsius. But the temperature rose q...[More]

Vasa loppet International Skiing Exchange Conference was held on New Years Day 2009. The exchange and cooperation between the Swedish, USA, Japanese and Chinese Vasaloppet has been very fruitful, and benefitted many young people in the host countries. Topics of this years conference was how to attract new target groups and non-skiers to become interested in cross country skiing.  This ye...[More]

Changchun, China 2008.12.31   Johan Edin, competing for Kovlands SK outside of the Swedish City Sundsvall left a strong message when Tour de Ski Chinas 3rd stage was held on the morning of New Years Eve in Changchun. –This was great! I really value this victory, said Johan after passing the finish line and all interviews for Chinese TV.   After two days of competitions in Inner Mongoli...[More]

Participants for Vasaloppet China arrived Tuesday 30th to Changchun. One of the groups who comes from Sweden and Norway had some time to first visit Beijing and climb the Great Wall.  Participants will experience some cold days in Changchun as the weather forecast predicts minus degrees aroung -11 to -16 throughout the week. But the weather should at least be quite su...[More]

Anders Högberg, from IFK Umeå took his second stage victory on Monday 29th Dec.   Tour de Ski China is getting a lot of attention in China with reports on Chinese Central Television. The 5 km mass start for men and 3.6km for women was held in Xiwuqi under extreme weather conditions. The temperature was at minus 18 degrees centigrade (the international limit for competing is minus ...[More]

2008/12/18   Christmas is closing in on all of us, and so is the New Year with Vasaloppet in Changchun. Track preparations have begun as well as snow making for the sculpture in Jingyuetan Park which will be 16 m high, more than 120 m long and 14 m thick   On December 20th, the top final 20 girls competing in this years’ Vasa Snow Angel will be in the finals round of competition at Jili...[More]