This is your LAST CHANCE to win a FREE pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis, made from recycled plastic bottles. To enter the giveaway, FOLLOW Threshold on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, AND comment on Threshold with Chad Salmela's post on FACEBOOK. Each comment counts as an entry!

On this day 20 years ago, Andrea Burke (neé Henkel) won Gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics in an event that her coaches recommended she didn’t compete in. This marked the first of many medals at Soldier Hollow in what was considered a smashing success for the country of Germany who won the medal count at those Olympics.

Today, Andrea recalls her childhood during the reunification of Germany, that Gold medal, and her dramatic finish that led to an overall World Cup title.

With Guest Andrea Henkel Burke

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

Thanks again to today's special sponsor: SALOMON, for providing a pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis that YOU could win!

Learn more about the work Andrea does today: https://www.andrea-burke.com/

Win a FREE pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis, made from recycled plastic bottles. To enter the giveaway, FOLLOW Threshold on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, AND comment on Threshold with Chad Salmela's post on FACEBOOK. Each comment counts as an entry! 

After surviving being hit by a car, Hannah Halvorsen overcomes immense odds to earn a spot on the 2022 US Olympic Team.

with Guest Hannah Halvorsen

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

Thanks again to today's special sponsor: SALOMON, for providing a pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis that YOU could win!

Win a FREE pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis, made from recycled plastic bottles. To enter the giveaway, FOLLOW Threshold on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, AND comment on Threshold with Chad Salmela's post on FACEBOOK. 

Rosie Brennan has entered 7 World Cup events during the 2021-2022 season and has finished no worse than 8th, including a podium finish in Davos. This clearly sets her up for an exciting Olympic run. Today on Threshold, we talk with Rosie about the long journey that has brought her here and how she feels about the upcoming Olympics. In a 'Here-Comes-Diggins' media onslaught, meet America’s medal hopeful, just inches out of the limelight... for now.

with Guest Rosie Brennan

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

Thanks again to today's special sponsor: SALOMON, for providing a pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis that YOU could win!

Threshold sits down with double Junior World  Champion and the youngest winner of the American Birkebeiner, Johnny Steel Hagenbuch. We get into the environment and circumstances of Hagenbuch’s development, his part in the young group of American men who shined like no Americans before at the junior level, his college plans, his long-range skiing aspirations, and of course, winning the Birkie at age 19.

This episode of Threshold is sponsored by SALOMON. Recognizing that the future existence of skiing is directly impacted by climate change, Salomon is confirming that sustainability will be a major aspect of its performance parameters in future winter sports products.

The first of those sustainable products is the new S/MAX eSKIN Nordic ski, the company’s first ski constructed with a sustainable mindset, with its core constructed with recycled plastic bottles.

For more information on Salomon’s focus on sustainability, and all their great products... Visit salomon.com

with Guest Johnny Steel Hagenbuch

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

Olympian Holly Brooks reached the highest level of ski racing, despite, if not in spite of, her circuitous, uncommon route.  We put some Holly into your Holidays with Holly Brooks, from her home in Anchorage.

This episode of Threshold is sponsored by SALOMON. Recognizing that the future existence of skiing is directly impacted by climate change, Salomon is confirming that sustainability will be a major aspect of its performance parameters in future winter sports products.

The first of those sustainable products is the new S/MAX eSKIN Nordic ski, the company’s first ski constructed with a sustainable mindset, with its core constructed with recycled plastic bottles.

For more information on Salomon’s focus on sustainability, and all their great products... Visit salomon.com

with Guest Holly Brooks

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

In 2019 and 2020, team USA won the Men's 4x5km Relay at the Nordic Skiing World Junior Championships for the first and second time ever. Now, those same men, who were all born in the year 2000 occupy half of the US Men's Nordic Ski Team. Not only that, but this season they have quietly been making names for themselves on the World Cup scene.

Today on Threshold we talk with these five guys - the Chill Pack - from Davos, Switzerland while they prepare for their next World Cup races.

This episode of Threshold is sponsored by SALOMON. Recognizing that the future existence of skiing is directly impacted by climate change, Salomon is confirming that sustainability will be a major aspect of its performance parameters in future winter sports products.

The first of those sustainable products is the new S/MAX eSKIN Nordic ski, the company’s first ski constructed with a sustainable mindset, with its core constructed with recycled plastic bottles.

For more information on Salomon’s focus on sustainability, and all their great products... Visit salomon.com 

With guests Gus Schumacher, JC Schoonmaker, Ben Ogden, Lake Jager, and Hunter Wonders

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

This episode of Threshold is sponsored by Salomon. Recognizing that the future existence of skiing is directly impacted by climate change, Salomon is confirming that sustainability will be a major aspect of its performance parameters in future winter sports products.

The first of those sustainable products is the new S/MAX eSKIN Nordic ski, the company’s first ski constructed with a sustainable mindset, with its core constructed with recycled plastic bottles. For more information on Salomon’s focus on sustainability, and all their great products, Visit Salomon.com

Today, Threshold welcomes Kevin Bolger and Maja Dahlqvist, the FIS Cross Country World Cup’s most thrilling international ski racing couple.

We join them on the eve of World Cup stop #2 in Lillehammer, as Bolger sharpens up to qualify for his first Olympic Team and Dahlqvist asserts herself atop the world women’s sprinting order. 

We look deeper too—what it takes to pull off the kind of relationship they have, how it affects them as athletes, and what they bring to each other’s lives.

With guests Maja Dahlqvist and Kevin Bolger

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

This time of year, nearly every year, vaunted biathlon coach, Wolfgang Pichler's long shadow gets cast over the biathlon world.

The IBU Biathlon World Cup started last weekend in Oestersund, Sweden, and continues this Thursday through Sunday.

Sweden has emerged as one of the strongest biathlon nations though it has not enjoyed wide popularity nor big funding.  It has been a perennial underdog to neighboring Norway, Germany, and Russia.

Now semi-retired as a sports programming gun for hire, Threshold talks with Pichler from his home in Ruhpolding, Germany, digging to the heart of a man who inspired several generations of athletes to medals, and meaning, in the sport of biathlon.

With Guest Wolfgang Pichler

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

With guests Rick Kapala and Reid Lutter

Featuring Jessie Diggins, Gus Schumacher, Kikkan Randall, Rosie Brennan, Sophie Caldwell, Hannah Halvorsen, and Matt Whitcomb

https://nationalnordicfoundation.org/drive-for-25/

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr

Olympian, marathoner, mother, podcast host, TV commentator, and Dr. Pepper pounding superstar Carrie Tollefson joins Threshold to talk about her Olympic history as well as hype us up for the NYC marathon.

With guest Carrie Tollefson

Hosted by Chad Salmela

Produced by Chris Parr