Episode 13 - V for victory for the first master of the V-style

The scandal was as taken out of a Finnish television theater, and it ended every bit as tragic. The FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships in Lahti 2001 will forever be remembered with horror in Finlan...

31 Loka 202446min

Few have felt the pressure from a whole nation on his shoulders the way Masahiko Harada did at the 1998 Olympic ski jumping team competition in Nagano, Japan. In episode 18 we follow the journey of th...

13 Loka 202426min

Talk about living life to the fullest. Gone too soon under tragic circumstances, Kasha Rigby showed us all how a life can be lived. From her early days of ski bumming in Colorado, to her countless exp...

5 Loka 202439min

Her aggressive style of skiing made people compare her to fellow Italian skier Alberto Tomba, but she was no female version of him. Her demeanor may have been humble and shy, but Deborah Compagnoni wa...

8 Kesä 202444min

Ski jumping needs innovation. And an unlikely hero may have just showed up to save the day, or at least save it for one day.. In episode 15 I share my thoughts on Red Bull's recent publicity stunt in ...

5 Touko 202423min

Ski flying has always been about chasing records. In a never-ending pursuit of longer and longer jumps, ski flying hills were expanded faster than the jumpers could keep up with. By the 1980s, hills ...

30 Loka 202346min

Skiing was a thing in the Wild West. Snowshoe Thompson, a native of Tinn in Telemark, Norway, introduced skiing to California during the now legendary Gold Rush in the 1850s as he delivered mail and s...

29 Syys 202343min