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Tony Percha, Cyril Grum, and Zbigy Zlobicki know that ski racers are made in summer! Training starts in May, particularly if you're Zbigy and plan to attend the 2027 Masters World Cup in Tomso, Norway!

Demong Winner at Whistler

1/18/2009 - By US Ski Team

Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) capitalized on a massive 134.0 meter jump to win the Olympic test event World Cup at the Whistler Olympic Park Friday. The DKB FIS Nordic Combined World Cup win was the fifth of his career and second this season.

Watch Biathlon World Cup Live Sat and Sun from Ruhpolding

1/17/2009 - By US Biathlon Association

Watch it live from USBiathlon.org. Click on the picture in the upper right corner of the news headlines page to open the live streaming video.

MI Cup individual standings through Champion Hill

1/17/2009 - By Ken Dawson

Here are the current results for individual Michigan Cup scoring (PDF) as of the Grand Rapids Langlauf 15km at Champion Hill. Team results will be posted on next report.

Team Champion results for Champion Hill

1/17/2009 - By Ed Anderson

Team results were calculated for the Champion Hill freestyle race this past weekend. The overall Team Champion for the race was Hanson Hills/Cross Country Ski Shop.

Americans Finish 5th in Relay World Cup Ruhpolding

1/16/2009 - By US Biathlon Association

The US Relay team of Lowell Bailey, Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK), Tim Burke, and Jeremy Teela posted the best US relay result in 20 years tonight with a 5th place finish in the 4 x 7.5K Relay

XC Ready to Test Out Whistler

1/16/2009 - By US Ski Team

The cross country action kicks off today with a classic sprint and runs through the weekend with pursuits on Saturday and the team sprint event Sunday.

www.northboundoutfittersmi.com/xc-ski.html

2009 US Nationals and Swix LF3 Cold Powder

1/16/2009 - By Swix Technical Team

2009 US Nationals proved to be some of the coldest racing we have experienced in a long time. The race organizers did a great job, but the weather just did not cooperate. The result was two of four events were cancelled due to cold temperatures.

Traverse City Sprint results for Jan 13

1/16/2009 - By Mark Esper

These are the results from the Nordic sprint races at Hickory Hills on Tuesday the 13th. The format that we use at Hickory Hills has racers ski at least separate 3 one kilometer sprints.

Video from the Grand Rapids Langlauf at Champion Hill

1/16/2009 - By Ken Lake

Video pre-start, start and finish of the 2009 Grand Rapids Langlauf 15 Km at Champion Hill.

More photos from the Champion Hill 15 Km

1/16/2009 - By John Howe

Champion Hill Nordic Ski Trails, Beulah, Michigan, 1-11-09 - “Langlauf“ is German for “cross-country ski run”. Top Nordic Ski racers from the state and region converged here to compete in this challenging 15 kilometer freestyle event.

US Nationals Waxing Commentary

1/16/2009 - By Bryan Fish

Head Coach Bryan Fish of CXC Team talks about his waxing experience at US Nationals. CXC member Caitlin Compton won the women's 5k skate and Matt Liebsch finished 3rd in the men's 10k skate, and were observed as having had extremely fast skis.

Weekend wax recommendations

1/15/2009 - By Mike Muha

Wax recommendations from Fast Wax, Solda, Swix and Toko for the Garland Gripper and Garland Glide. Check back for updates!