Roundup: U.S. Ski Team training in Colorado

Roundup: U.S. Ski Team training in Colorado{mosimage}The U.S. Ski Team is in Colorado, training for upcoming races at ski areas along the I-70 corridor. Sarah Schleper, Kirsten Clark and Resi Stiegler are still not on snow due to nagging injuries.

Tim Ryan will once again be the voice of NBC’s alpine skiing coverage at the Olympic Winter Games. The Idaho Mountain Express profiles Ryan in a Nov. 11 story here. (Ryan will again be joined by Todd Brooker in the booth at Torino.)

MSNBC has posted a valuable travel guide to the Torino Games. Click here if you’re thinking of dropping the cash on a February vacation.

If you are one of Skiracing.com’s readers in the UK, you can find the schedule for Channel 4’s coverage of the alpine World Cup season here.

The Salt Lake Tribune recently profiled the Rowmark Ski Academy. Click here to read the story.

The Washington Post reports that the World Anti-Doping Agency is standing by its EPO test.

Bloomberg has a Nov. 1 story about a new Swiss ski academy. The Swiss are trying to ‘revive skiing glory’ after a dismal 2004-05 season.

Sports Illustrated has nominated Bode Miller for Sportsman of the Year.

The New Zealand Herald is tracking that nation’s potential Olympic skiers in this story. Ski Racing magazine will chart the qualification criteria for the U.S. and international teams in Issue 6, due out in late November.