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Jackson, New Hampshire The #1 Cross-Country Ski Area in the Eastern United States!
old information Oct 2008
Jackson, N.H. – The Jackson Ski Touring Foundation will hold a pre-season training clinic with Olympic skiers Ian and Antje Harvey on Oct. 24 and 25. On Friday, Oct. 24, the Harveys will present a training “chalk talk” and wax clinic; and on Saturday, Oct. 25, there will be a training day that includes participatory roller ski and running sessions in small groups, followed by a group lunch and afternoon discussion of waxing, equipment and other tactical elements. Racers and high-level recreational skiers from teens to masters’ racers will appreciate and enjoy the opportunity to work with this dynamic couple. Preregistration is required for Saturday’s event as space is limited. Minimum donation for Saturday’s event is $20 and includes lunch.
Ian and Antje Harvey earned their x-c bona fides on the international racing trails where they met in the 1990’s. Ian is a veteran of both the U.S. Ski Team and the U.S. Biathlon Team and competed in the 1992 Olympics; he is a World Masters Champion; Antje, an Olympian who won a Gold and three Silver medals Biathlon and a Bronze in Cross Country, grew up skiing in the rigid former East German regime. Now representing the ski equipment manufacturer Toko, the pair enjoy performance skiing and sharing their ideas with those who wish to attain a higher level of Nordic excellence.
Pre-registration is required for Saturday’s training program. Registration by calling the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation at 603-383-9355.
Schedule: October 24 - Friday evening: 6:30 p.m. Wax Clinic/Ski Tech Talk with Ian Harvey - Toko USA - open to the public – free Location: Eagle Mtn Room, Eagle Mtn House, Carter Notch Road, Jackson – silent auction
October 25 - Saturday Registration necessary – call 603-383-9355 or email thom@jacksonxc.org for registration $20 minimum donation to support the Junior Program includes lunch. Limited slots available first come - first served.
8:30 a.m. Meet at the Jackson Ski Touring Center parking lot (Wentworth Golf Course in the summer/fall).
9:00 a.m. Roller Skiing with Ian Harvey - Training and technique Training hike with Antje Harvey – Emphasis on improving your personal training
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Location: Whitney's Shovel Handle Pub, at the base of Black Mtn Ski Area.
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Afternoon training talk. Q&A Location: Whitney's Shovel Handle Pub, at the base of Black Mtn Ski Area.
Antje Harvey Antje Harvey was born 10 May 1967 Magdeburg, East Germany. Antje’s father was a ski coach for SC Motor Zella-Mehlis, a ski club in the area of Stuetzerbach, Germany where Antje grew up. Antje grew up racing cross country skiing, running track and cross country, and participating in gymnastics competitions. She started specializing in cross country skiing at age 12. In order to go to the sport school, she had to have surgery done on her tibia because the bone had not grown properly and they only wanted to have “perfect” physical athletes in the program. She attended the KinderJugend Sportschule (child/youth sport school) Oberhof when she was 14. (Oberhof was one of four winter sport training centers in East Germany). At age 16, she went to her first Junior World Championships in Trondheim, Norway. This was her first time in a free country. She finished 3rd in the relay and 10th in the 5km. In preparation for the next season, when she was on the National team, she went to a training camp in Kiruna, Sweden (November 1984). This was the first time that she had contact with Steroids. The team doctor came to the girls’ rooms every night and handed out a blue pill that the girls had to swallow in front of him. Because Antje was aware of what it was, she only acted like she was swallowing the pill. Antje’s grandmother, who was a doctor heard from her father what they were planning on giving out and had told her not to take it. After acting like she had swallowed it, Antje would go to the bathroom and flush the pill down the toilet. Later that winter, at the Jugend Wettkampf de Freundschaft (Youth Competitions of Friendships – the East Bloc countries version of the Goodwill Games), Antje won all three races in front of such stars as Egorova and Lazutina. In winter of 1985, Antje went to the senior World Championships in Seefeld, Austria. They finished 3rd in the relay and Antje finished 11th in the 5km. Antje won the 5km and 20km races at the German championships as well as the relay with her local team, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis. The junior World Championships were afterwards in Tasch, Switzerland where the team finished 3rd in the relay as well. Antje finished out the season with a few World Cup top 10 finishes. After the season, Antje talked openly with her coaches about her reservations about taking steroids, which she still had not actually taken. They threatened her that if she did not continue to take the drugs, there would be consequences (they still thought that she had been taking the drugs). Then she told them that she had never taken them. They were outraged and told her to keep her mouth shut. The whole situation made Antje decide to quit. In 1986, Antje competed in Loppet races and won all of them. She also attended Potsdam University near Berlin, Germany. She was studying to become a teacher. In the spring of 1989, German Ski Federation officials approached her to see if she would be interested in a new woman’s Biathlon program. They needed good women fast as Biathlon had just been made an official part of the 1992 Olympics. The West Germans had a very strong program already and the East Germans officials did not want to fall behind in the medal count. Antje accepted. When Antje shot for the first time in a tryout, the coaches told her that she was very talented and wanted her to train with them full time as soon as possible. On her first day, the director of the sports club called her into his office and told her that she should rethink everything as she was so old and untalented. This was quite confusing for Antje as she had been hearing the exact opposite from the coaches. She found out that the president of the winter Olympic committee, Dr. Koehler, had directed the officials to discourage her from taking part. He was concerned that she would become successful, gain influence, and become dangerous somehow to their sports network. Antje’s father wrote a letter of protest to the summer Olympic committee president, who was a well-known enemy of Dr. Koehler, and who stood over him. His response was to force them to let Antje participate. In June of 1989, Antje started training full time for Biathlon at the Army Sports Club in Oberhof, Germany. During a training camp in November 1989 in Apatity, Russia, Antje and her teammates were watching television, which was very fuzzy due to the bad reception. They saw what looked like people running and climbing over a large wall. They had thought that it might be the Berlin Wall, and shouted at the Television that the people were crazy because they were going to be shot. Then a sign came up on the TV that it was the Berlin Wall. This was the day that the wall had come down. The training camp lasted for another two weeks and they were unable to contact anybody back in Germany. This was of course a frustrating time! Upon Antje’s return home, she and her family visited relatives in West Germany for the first time. She was completely overwhelmed by the sudden huge change in her freedom and lifestyle. Soon afterwards, Antje and her East German team met her new teammates from West Germany (they became a unified team). There was a lot of tension and division between the two groups as their backgrounds had been so different. The East German girls also skied super fast, but the West Germans generally shot faster, so nobody was really sure of their position on the team, although the West Germans had some very successful athletes. At her first World Championships in 1991 in Lahti, Finland, Antje finished 3rd in the relay due to her strong team and super fast skiing. She also won her first individual World Cup race in Hochfilzen, Austria that winter. In 1992, Antje reached her goal of qualifying for the German Olympic team. She won the World Cup race just before the Olympic games in Antolz, Italy. Then at the Olympic Games in Albertville, France (the races were actually in Les Saises), Antje finished 2nd in the sprint, which was the first race and then 2nd in the relay with the second fastest split. All of her expectations had been met and she had been satisfied actually. However the long race remained (15km). She skied conservatively and focused on her shooting, which went very well. Antje hit 19 out of 20 shots in winning the Gold medal! The same night, she had a lot of interviews. One of these interviews was an hour long live interview with the biggest TV station in Germany. During this interview, Antje and her father criticized the German ski federation by explaining the whole sordid story of doping, and blacklisting. They also pointed out that the same doctors and officials still had the same influential positions. Shortly thereafter (and before many more interviews that were to come), Antje’s parents received many letters both positive and negative regarding their outspokeness on the East German sports machine and the Oberhof winter sport training center. Her family received death threats as well. The anonymous letters (3 death threat letters written by different parties) said that they would kill Antje and her father if they continued to expose the drugs and politics of earlier East German sport. Antje then gave an hour long interview with the largest TV station in Germany explaining the whole affair from start to finish in detail. This interview made her very unpopular in East Germany as so much of their pride had been rooted in sport results, but the rest of Germany and Europe noticed her character and courage. Antje became a national treasure through her outstanding athletic achievements as well as for her character. In Germany, they have an athlete of the year award which is something that over 100 journalists vote on. This is a really big award similar to some that we have in the US except that there is one universally recognized poll in Germany. In this poll, men and women are voted on together. 1992 was a tremendous year in German sport. Germany won the Davis Cup with Boris Becker and Michael Stich, Michael Stich and Steffi Graf won Wimbledon, Michael Schumacher won the Formula One World Championshiops, Bayern Munich won the Europa Cup, just to name a few outstanding results. The winner of the poll overall was Michael Schumacher, eighth was Steffi Graf, and Ante was ninth! It is tremendous to think that a cross country skier turned biathlete could finish so high in such a successful sport country that is only 1/4 covered by snow in winter. In the summer of 1992, Antje traveled to the US to visit some friends and also her future husband, Ian, who she had met at the World Cups. In the Spring of 1993, Antje and Ian married and have lived in the US ever since. In 1994, Antje won a silver medal in the relay (with the second fastest split) and finished 9th in the 15km Biathlon. She also won world cups in the 1994 and 1995 winters. Antje retired from ski racing and Biathlon after the 1995 season after winning Gold in the World Championship relay. Hazel Harvey was born in 1996 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Antje’s proudest moment. In 2000, Antje became a US citizen. In 2001, during the PreOlympic World Cup races, Pearl Harvey was born in Heber City, Utah where Antje and Ian live today with their two daughters. Today, Antje and Ian work for Toko, a Swiss company that makes ski wax, tools, gloves, and apparel.
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