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Tour de Ski China is the Ski Tour which invites top skiers from all over the world to compete in 5 Stages during 11 days in the best ski arenas in China. The tour is a serious challenger to Tour de Ski in Europe and a chance to experience China and its people, new places, good food and great hospitality.

The tour also gives a new ski experience to athletes where they in 2008-09 have a chance to go to Xiwuqi, Inner Mongolia where people have almost never seen a person on skis before, to scenic Changchun which has become a real center for skiing and other outdoor sports over they years and in the course of cooperating with

Solfrid Braaten, Norway and Fabio Pasini, Italy are the tour-winners of the first ever Tour de Ski China.

During the prize ceremony in Inner Mongolia yesterday night, Braaten and Pasini could proudly receive their prize-checks and entitle themselves as Tour-winners. Today the two champions arrive in Beijing together with the other skiers, and tomorrow they leave China for carrying on with their preparations for the rest of the season.

Elise Tyldum, Norway and Fabio Pasini, Italy have taken over the leader bibs in the Tour de Ski China after winning the second stage in Changchun.

Today Elise Tyldum outsprinted the rest of the athletes in the sprint race in Changchun.
- I can not believe it, I can not believe that I have won the race, says Elise Tyldum after winning 100 meters ahead of Barbara Moriggel, Italy.

Elise Tyldum thinks that this might be a breakthrough.
- I am in the shape of my life here in Asia and I think that the Tour de Ski China is an amazing adventure.

He is not only the king of Düsseldorf any more. Peter Larsson is now also king of Shangri-La. He won the first stage of the Tour de Ski China at 10 500 feet above sea level.

The conditions where extreme at the first stage of the Tour de Ski China. The firs race where held in south China, close to Tibet and the high altitude really put the pressure on the skiers. Bjoern Lind, Olympic Champion from Torino 2006, missed to qualify to the

The organizing committee of the Tour de Ski China is proud to announce that - next to 43 European top skiers and the strong China Ski Team - the double Olympic Champion Bjorn Lind will compete in the first ever Tour de Ski China. Convinced by Swedish head coach of the China Ski Team Per-Erik ”Peken” Rönnestrand the Turin Olympic Sprint Champion decided that he will compete in 3 of 4 stages in Tour de Ski China.

The Tour de Ski China is an opportunity for Bjorn Lind to add extra travel experiences to his rich career, compete in some of the most remote and beautiful places

Nordic Ways proudly announces, Citizen Watch Company will be the official sponsor for the first ever Tour de Ski China. The company was established in 1924 and during the past 25 year period the company has risen to its current position as the world’s largest watchmaker, a distinction Citizen has held every year since 1986. More recently, Citizen has staked out a new position as the leader in Ecologically Friendly timekeeping with its Eco-Drive collection of light powered watches. Fueled by light, they never need a battery.

Last Friday Nordic Ways hosted a press conference in Radisson SAS hotel in Beijing with reference to the Shangri-La stage in Tour De Ski China. Shangri-La will be the host city for the first of four stages in this ski series that starts on December 28. Thereby Shangri-La will also be the first host city for a ski event in Southern China. Tour De Ski will last for eight days and will take place in three different parts of China. The Chinese National Team as well as at least 40 of the FIS top 100 skiers will take part.

Unfortunately, Nordic Ways shall inform all the international elite cross country skiers, that the 2011 edition of the China Summer Ski Sprint is cancelled. The reason for this bad news is that the agreed arrangements in Inner Mongolia have been cancelled by the local partners of Nordic Ways.

We know that many skiers, with very good international credentials, had been looking forward to compete in China this summer.

The 35 year old Swede Thobias Fredriksson who won a World Cup Sprint in Changchun in 2006 has decided to return to China and join his friends from the National Team for Summer Ski Sprint, this time held in Inner Mongolia, June 9th - 11th.
 
Fredriksson is an experienced skier who started his career in the middle of the 90’s. He is a 3 times Swedish Sprint Champion, 2 times winner of the Sprint World Cup and an Olympic as well as a World Ski Championships gold medalist.
 

The 2 times Olympic medalist Hilde G. Pedersen from Norway has decided to participate in the Summer Ski Sprint in China in May. Hilde is a legend in Norway with an impressing history in her still ongoing ski-career. Hilde is 43 years old and still an active elite-skier, she won her seventh Norwegian Championships gold medal earlier this year in January. Another feat is when she in the age of 41 won the World Cup race in Otepää, Estonia. With that achievement she became the oldest women ever winning a World Cup race.

The General Secretary of the Chinese Ski Association, Mr. Gao, was a proud man after Asia's first ever summer ski event. After handing over the last prices under Changbai Mountain Summer Ski event took a couple of minutes to talk about how he, and the CSA, felt about the event.

"I, and the CSA, are both very proud about what happened here in Changbai Mountain today. We have in

Led by Olympic Champions Bjorn Lind and Anna Dahlberg, Sweden today dominated the Changbai Mountain Summer Ski sprint. In the mens qualification, quarter and semi final Bjorn Lind, Fredrik Persson, Peter Larsson and Gustav Berglund dominated and left the men’s final to be an all Swedish event.

The final itself was won by Olympic Champion Bjorn Lind after a thrilling sprint duell between him and Fredrik Persson on the