Italian Wax Company Maplus Name U.S. Ski Team Supplier
Aug 21, 2007
Juliann Fritz
PARK CITY, Utah (Aug. 21) - The U.S. Ski Team has named Italian ski wax company Maplus as an official supplier of the Team, providing wax and technical services, according to Associate Athletic Director Dale Schoon.
"The strong support of companies like Maplus is critical to the success of our athletes," said Schoon. "We're excited to welcome a company with the experience of Maplus to our U.S. Ski Team supplier pool."
"We are proud to support and work together with U.S. athletes in pursuit of their Olympic dreams," said Rick Weissenborn, president of Maplus' North American distributor Innovation, Inc. "Maplus, together with the U.S. Ski Team, will strive to improve and continue the tradition of producing top results at the highest levels of competition."
Maplus is best known in Italy for superior nordic and alpine racing wax and is quickly gaining recognition in the United States as a leading producer of competition wax products. Maplus started producing ski wax in 1997 with the exclusive support of the Chemical Industrial Institute of Padua University and Prof. Gian Paolo Gambaretto, one of the world's authoritative experts on fluorine chemistry. The company's groundbreaking scientific research activity over the past 10 years has produced a range of race-proven spray, liquid, solid and powder wax with high melt points, superior durability and glide.
U.S. Ski Team athletes train year-round and compete each winter on a global World Cup circuit, in addition to the Olympic Winter Games every four years. The U.S. Ski Team will primarily use Maplus' products for its cross country, nordic combined and alpine ski teams.
Maplus joins a supplier team of over 50 companies providing valuable support to U.S. Ski Team athletes.
About the U.S. Ski Team
The U.S. Ski Team fields the national ski team for the United States, supporting world-class athletes for national and international competition annually, as well as the Olympic Winter Games. The Team manages year-round, nationwide, development and elite programs, with the organizational vision to be the best in the world in Olympic skiing. The Team manages programs in five distinctly different Olympic sports: alpine, cross country, freestyle, nordic combined and ski jumping, as well as Paralympic sports of disabled alpine and disabled cross country. The U.S. Ski Team is governed by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, the national governing body of Olympic skiing. It has been based in Park City, UT, since 1973.
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PARK CITY, Utah (Aug. 21) - The U.S. Ski Team has named Italian ski wax company Maplus as an official supplier of the Team, providing wax and technical services, according to Associate Athletic Director Dale Schoon.
"The strong support of companies like Maplus is critical to the success of our athletes," said Schoon. "We're excited to welcome a company with the experience of Maplus to our U.S. Ski Team supplier pool."
"We are proud to support and work together with U.S. athletes in pursuit of their Olympic dreams," said Rick Weissenborn, president of Maplus' North American distributor Innovation, Inc. "Maplus, together with the U.S. Ski Team, will strive to improve and continue the tradition of producing top results at the highest levels of competition."
Maplus is best known in Italy for superior nordic and alpine racing wax and is quickly gaining recognition in the United States as a leading producer of competition wax products. Maplus started producing ski wax in 1997 with the exclusive support of the Chemical Industrial Institute of Padua University and Prof. Gian Paolo Gambaretto, one of the world's authoritative experts on fluorine chemistry. The company's groundbreaking scientific research activity over the past 10 years has produced a range of race-proven spray, liquid, solid and powder wax with high melt points, superior durability and glide.
U.S. Ski Team athletes train year-round and compete each winter on a global World Cup circuit, in addition to the Olympic Winter Games every four years. The U.S. Ski Team will primarily use Maplus' products for its cross country, nordic combined and alpine ski teams.
Maplus joins a supplier team of over 50 companies providing valuable support to U.S. Ski Team athletes.
About the U.S. Ski Team
The U.S. Ski Team fields the national ski team for the United States, supporting world-class athletes for national and international competition annually, as well as the Olympic Winter Games. The Team manages year-round, nationwide, development and elite programs, with the organizational vision to be the best in the world in Olympic skiing. The Team manages programs in five distinctly different Olympic sports: alpine, cross country, freestyle, nordic combined and ski jumping, as well as Paralympic sports of disabled alpine and disabled cross country. The U.S. Ski Team is governed by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, the national governing body of Olympic skiing. It has been based in Park City, UT, since 1973.
* NEW * U.S. Ski Team Newsfeeds
Now you can have U.S. Ski Team news headlines delivered direct to your news reader or to your personal web page. Simply add the XML link to the news reader on your computer or PDA, or click on the Yahoo link to add U.S. Ski Team news headlines to your personal My Yahoo page. Webmasters, you are authorized to add the U.S. Ski Team's news feeds to your web pages.
http://www.usskiteam.com/public/xml.php?dId=6
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