FIS Nordic Combined News

Austrian Ski Federation names teams

The Austrian Ski Federation has now also named their teams for the upcoming winter. After a first training camp in Riccione, Italy, the following athletes were nominated for the national team:

Austrians chase warmer temperatures in first training camp

Last week, it was time for the first training camp for head coach Christoph Eugen's athletes who loaded their bikes and drove to Riccione, Italy to lay a foundation for the necessary basic endurance in warmer climates.

Young & Wild: Ilkka Herola (FIN)

If you would like to sum up the development of Ilkka Herola's career in the last one and a half years it would probably be the word "quantum leap". Looking at the 17-year-old's timeline below, the one thing that catches the eye is how fast everything went with the year 2012 bringing first starts in the Continental Cup and World Cup and the year 2013 seeing Ilkka ascend to a World Cup athlete who has positioned himself quite stably among the Top 30 athletes on the result lists.