We are now in place in Oberhof! Today, it has been really bad weather with a lot of rain. But tomorrow it shall become colder. Then it will go really fast. So tomorrow afternoon the tour will start! It will be really fun! / Anders Niemi

Now the  Christmas break is over. Time to start working again! Tomorrow morning we go to Oberhof, Germany, to launch this year’s Tour de Ski! We have some sprinters on the team. They will jump of after the competition in Prague. Now it will be a new period, we will be gone! After the Tour is the only the  world cup in Otepää left before the Olympics! Yes, here we go again!

/Anders Niemi

Pictures from dusseldorf

Pictures from Davos

Pictures from Rogla

/Anders Niemi

Now we are finally back in Sweden after we had been out on tour for three weeks! Last weekend in Rogla was successful, with  Haag and Modin on the podium! Rogla was a new beautiful place as we were allowed to visit, Rogla is more than 1500m altitude. The courses which were really nice and cool! Specielt sprint course was perhaps one of the best on the World Cup! The last day we had really good weather with sunshine. Yes, as I said so, we are now home to the 30th before we go off road to the Tour de Ski! Will outsource some pictures from the 3 weeks we have been out and you’ll see the nice places we can visit when we are out for competitions.

/ Anders Niemi

Now we have packed up all the stuff in the waxtruck, which has beginning its roll towards Rogla in Slovenia now. We’ve had some really nice but cold days here in Davos. We have been able to test the classic skis for the weekend’s races. There are currently wonderful conditions for cross-country skiing here in Davos, can really recommend a visit here. Early in the morning  we start rolling towards Rogla. Will be exciting with a whole new place, which almost no one else visited before.

/Anders Niemi

Two podium finishes yesterday was really good. Think we got a pretty good waxing! Today is the sprint and this morning it is minus 7 degrees here and no snowfall at this time anyway. ‘ll Be really good races today, however, is sprint tracks here very long. Now it is time to wax for todays race!

/Anders Niemi

Salomon has a new classical binding that we will begin to ski with!

/Anders Niemi

Much snow and good weather. We test a lot of skis ! Right now it’s raining but it will be colder forward to the races. Yesterday afternoon we went out on a little excursion in the mountains. It was really nice up there among the tops! Tomorrow we begin preparations for this weekend’s races

Three podium finishes in Dusseldorf. A really good weekend with Falk, Ingemarsdotter, Lind and Bryntesson ended up on the podium. Really fun when things are going this good! It was hot weather and little rain all the time. Now we have traveld to Davos where we will be all week and test the skis and wax up to this weekend’s races. This is an important time for us to the Olympics to try to find the best of the skis we have. It is good to have snow here but a bit hot right now but later in the week’s going to get a bit colder and more snow to come!

/Anders Niemi

Sitting at theArlanda and waiting for the plane to go to Düsseldorf. This weekend will be pretty quiet. But not during the competitions, there will be quite a lot of work. We will guaranteed put the powders and add new topping between each race as it is usually very dirty snow in Düsseldorf. There is also some distance between the goal and the truck as it applies to run back to catch all the moments before the athlete shall start again! It is usually very nice races in Düsseldorf .

/ Anders Niemi

Today, the truck started to go to Dusseldorf, they will take the ferry from Gothenburg to Kiel tonight. It is a bit special in Dusseldorf when the race goes inside the center, we have only about 30 minutes before the race on Saturday to have time to test skis and test out which wax to use. It tends to be a bit stressful and a lot of people who will try skis in a smal area and have a little time!

Yesterday began the season for the biathletes in Östersund, with great results for Sweden! We have a very good cooperation with their waxingteam, this summer we tested skis and structures together. But we are also in contact during the season to check the skis, structures and wax that works. We will certainly during the Olympics also have a close cooperation when we basically have races every other day.

/Anders Niemi