Send Nordic Insights to the Olympics!

Within 2.5 years, this news site has gone from one man’s pipe dream to an imprimatur of media legitimacy: I am thrilled to announce that Nordic Insights has been credentialed to cover the 2026 Winter Olympics.

I’ve worked hard to get to this point. I am the only person in the country who has reported live from the last three national championships. I have done on-site reporting from twelve World Juniors races, eight World Cup races, and a lot of really cold races at Kincaid Park in Anchorage. I have written about World Cup races, and JNQ races, and World Masters races, and the Race to the Outhouse, and everything in between. I have written about what Pål Golberg eats for breakfast, about women in coaching, and about the geographical origins of national-team skiers over the past twenty years. I have posted articles from the Fairbanks airport, from my car in the Soldier Hollow parking lot, and from the Houghton Culver’s.

And now I’m going to Milano–Cortina. Or, more precisely, to Val di Fiemme, the tiny hamlet in the Fiemme Valley in Trentino that will be hosting cross-country skiing events during the Olympics.

It is expensive to get anywhere from Alaska, especially to Europe during the Olympics. It is expensive to stay anywhere near the Olympics during the Olympics. I don’t know how expensive it will be to feed myself at the Olympics during the Olympics, but subsisting largely on oatmeal and prepackaged Indian food from Costco that I brought from home, as I have literally done on previous reporting trips, is probably not really going to be an option for an 18-day trip this time.

So you should give me money, if you have it to spare. I will be immensely grateful. I will use it to travel to Val di Fiemme in February 2026. I will stand courseside for hours in all types of weather. I will queue in the mixed zone, the Olympics being the rare occasion that people other than me want to talk with our skiers. I will ask every American athlete about their race, not just Jessie and Gus and Ben but every athlete. Then I will come back here and tell you what they had to say. Go team.

This is, obviously, the GoFundMe portal for credit card donations. If you have cash or check or airline miles or some other form of support, feel free to be in touch directly (info at nordicinsights dot news). Thank you for your consideration, and, especially, for reading.