<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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 <em>every</em> athlete. Then I will come back here and tell you what they had to say. Go team.
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