In this issue, we update you on the latest results from our athletes in the Northern Hemisphere, let you know about our draft calendar for 2008 winter, keep you current on the most recent FIS points lists and finally some office news.
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TEAM NEWS
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CALENDAR
ATHLETE NEWS
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A fantastic result for Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin has scored 14.55 in a North American Cup Giant Slalom in Sunday River, Maine. Having had a great first run, Ben skied even faster to finish 6th overall, winning the second run. This result eclipses his best ever result scored at Coronet Peak in August. Ben is a key member of the Volkswagen National Ski Team coached by Nils Coberger. If you want to send your congratulations to Ben please send an email to ben.griffin@tussockgrove.co.nz. Full results are available here www.fis-ski.com. This is the best men’s result since Simon Wi-Rutene won the NAC cup in the early ninties. Congratulations Ben.
TEAM NEWS
Volkswagen National Development Team members podium at first races of the season 
The newest members of the Volkswagen National Development team have arrived in Canada, joining the older athletes. The older athletes have scored results in their first competitions of the winter, with Jamie Prebble (65.19 & 73.01), Harriet Miller-Brown (79.41 & 84.95) & Taylor Rapley (87.53) all achieving podium results. Congratulations to these athletes. Charlotte Newbold is back in training now and in her first race since returning from injury she scored 82.80 in a slalom race at Nakiska, Canada. Full results from this series are available here www.fis-ski.com just click the link for the Nakiska series.
Kuu join growing list of Team Sponsors
Ski Racing New Zealand has partnered with Kuu wax and CD sports for a three year sponsorship deal. Kuu will now be the exclusive supplier of wax and ski preparation equipment to the Volkswagen National Team and the Volkswagen Development Team. This will see a direct benefit to the athletes of both teams as wax will be supplied to them a considerably lower cost than normal. Karbon and XTM are two of the other direct equipment suppliers for the teams. Tim Café & Angus Howden score 30 points
Congratulations go again to Volkswagen National Team members Angus Howden for finishing second and scoring a great 31.01 at a slalom in Nakiska and to Tim Café for scoring 30.37 at an NAC race at Sunday River, Maine. The men with coach Nils Coberger are off to Europe on 16th January to continue their campaign. Janelle Miller has remained in Canada to recover from a slight knee injury before she too heads to Europe in mid February, her best results so far this season include a second at a FIS race in Panorama and a 44.87 Super Combi result at the NAC event also in Panorama.
Six monthly accounts
These are just being finalised now and should be available shortly. Once they are completed they will be loaded on the members section of the website, click the link below to check this area.
Logo gets a refresh 
The Ski Racing New Zealand New Zealand logo has had a refresh, thanks to Craig Ross for all his hard work, the new logo will be rolled out over the coming months but a sneak preview is above. World Junior Championships, Whistler Cup & Topolino Selections
This drawn out process is nearing a conclusion with the athletes involved notified, a few contractual details are to be finalised and then the teams will be listed on the site. 6th FIS Points list now available
The sixth FIS points list for the 2007/08 winter season is now available on our site, for the first time they can be downloaded in PDF and Excel file format. Click the link below to go straight to that page.
CALENDAR
2008 Calendar posted in new format.
Next years winter calendar is already out in draft format, please have a look through it. This year it is presented in an easy to read format with events separated by month and type, making it easier to find what you need. Soon a search item will be added and there will also be a downloadable version of the calendar. Eventually we hope to include RSS feeds from this site. 
ATHLETE NEWS
Lots of results
Ski Racing New Zealand is proud to remind everyone to check out the results and updates from all our other athletes that are racing and training overseas this summer. Make sure you keep up to date with all their progress by checking our website. For all those of you out there make sure you send in details of what you are doing so that we can tell everyone about it. As well as our teams competing, several other athletes have started their competition programmes in the northern hemisphere. Leighton Winsloe, Andrew Wylie, Lucie & Emilie Tait Jamieson have been racing in Bormio, Italy with Coach Jonny Rice. Lucie scored her best ever GS result, 62 points and Slalom Leighton was only 1.6 seconds out. Other athletes have also been racing, notable Sarah Jarvis, Michael Ross and several others are due to begin the competition programmes including the Volkswagen National Development Team. Help us keep up to date with everyone’s progress by sending regular emails with photos and results to simon@skiracing.org.nz. 
Happy New Year. |
