World Cup WhineLine Ep. 1: Trondheim

We catch up with Out There Nordic's Bjørn Hanson to talk about how he and the crew have waxed skis for four of the last five Birkie Classic winners. ***check out our interview with 2025 champion Fabien Stocek from this summer!**to learn more about Out There Nordic - visit their website HERE.

We preview Davos, take a look at the Russian Cup, give a few World Cup globe sleeper picks, talk about a viral highlight from Trondheim, read a few emails and analyze, very briefly, the Super Tour action from the weekend.Leave us your thoughts and we'll play them on the World Cup WhineLine on Monday!https://www.speakpipe.com/SederSkier

The Seder-Skier breaks down Trondheim, with special guests, The Index and Nordic Insights writer Adam Bodensteiner as well as a clip or two (go all the way to the end folks!!! You won't be disappointed...) from Taco Bell Guy.While this first episode ended up being a podcast, next week will be LIVE on Youtube!This is your chance to participate in the conversation after each World Cup weekend. How? 1) Go here and record a 90-sec audio file with your hot take, controversial comment, insight, question, concern or comment at your convenience this week, Sunday night or during the show. 2) Leave a hot take in the comment section during the live feed3) Send us an email at [email protected]://www.speakpipe.com/SederSkierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDVNN79HOv4

Before the World Cup season started, we sat down with the 2-time World championship medalist and 2-time Olympic medalist to see how she's enjoying married life, what race she cares about most at the 2026 Games, and what her thoughts are on Victoria Carl and the Russians.⁠Head on over to EnjoyWinter⁠⁠⁠ for all your Nordic ski needs this season!Go to ⁠⁠⁠Seder-Skier.com to become a member of Gripwax Nation today!

We chatted with Pia Fink about her breakout 2024-2025 World Cup season as well as who she thinks might be the German's best up and coming standout, the team's reaction to the Victoria Carl news, training under Per Nilsson and what her secret talent off the snow is!⁠Head on over to EnjoyWinter⁠⁠ for all your Nordic ski needs this season!Go to ⁠⁠Seder-Skier.com to become a member of Gripwax Nation today!

The German's Rosie Brennan — Gimmler captured her first World Cup podium at 31 last winter – hops on to talk about her career and later successes, the German team dynamics and her personal goals for the upcoming World Cup and Olympic seasons.⁠Head on over to EnjoyWinter⁠ for all your Nordic ski needs this season!Go to ⁠Seder-Skier.com to become a member of Gripwax Nation today!

The two-time Olympian has been busy raising two kids and working as the Nordic program director at the Aspen Valley Ski Club. This January, the club is offering a $5,000 prize purse at the Owl Creek Chase, a 25K point-to-point course from Snowmass to Aspen. We chat about that, Simi joining Kilian for his 14er project, what she's up to as a club director, opinions on RMD / New England and development in general and more. Vail Daily story on Owl CreekRegister for the Owl Creek

We caught up to the 28 year old in Finland to talk about what it was like having an older brother who won 6 world titles and an Olympic gold medal in Nordic combined, her training philosophy, her outlook after winning the final sprint world cup (and placing fourth in the discipline season standings), and what she's trying to do to catch up to Jonna Sundling. Head on over to EnjoyWinter for all your Nordic ski needs this season!Go to Seder-Skier.com to become a member of Gripwax Nation today!

Anderson launched the Ely ski program from scratch back in the 1990s and guided the Timberwolves to prominence over the next two decades. She coached the boys to a state title in 2010, countless section championships and runner up finishes going against section 7 rival Duluth East, and guided Erin Bianco — a current BSF World Cup skier — to the individual title in 2017.We reached out to hear her ski story, how she built such a successful program, and her advice to coaches trying to do the same. Ely has one of the smallest student populations for schools with cross-country skiing, yet she continues to attract a team that makes up almost 10% of enrollment at the high school. The Ely ski team is a club team that is funded only from community supported fundraisers. Paula is involved with the yearly acquisition of funds to secure that another ski season will take place in Ely. She not only works to make sure the funds are developing, but that the skiers are developing as well by leading a summer workout program. Her ability to individualize the training for her athletes is a unique skill. 

Even though he's fresh off his best season yet, Ketterson just missed making the U.S. Ski Team criteria. The NMU All-American and 2-time MN state champ used the slight to his advantage this off-season, heading to multiple altitude camps, spending time in the snow tunnels and getting on-snow in Livigno this October. I was curious to see what his mindset was as he enters his late-20s and wanted to know what inspired his new Youtube channel.Enjoy!