The new season is about to start! Here is a summary of some changes in the family lives of the World Cup athletes since last season as provided by the different National Ski Associations. (Must be something in the snow...),
Americans Andy Newell and Torin Koos overcame a mid-race spill Sunday to finish ninth in a freestyle technique, team sprint race on opening weekend of the 2008 World Cup season.,
Instead of preparing to test their facilities, the Liberec organizers are desperately chasing the money needed to stage February’s event. And preparations for the 2009 championship are far behind schedule.,
The Tour Team Standing premieres at the second Tour de Ski. The Tour Team Standing is a team scoring whereby the racing times of the two best women and two best men per nation each day count for the Team Standing.,
The winner of the World Cup kick off in the Sprint race in Duesseldorf (GER) were the two youngsters, the 21-year-old Natalia Matveeva (RUS) and the 22-year old Josef Wenzl (GER).,
Andy got off to a good start [in quarterfinals], but said he made a tactical error. He tried to go outside on a corner after the start/finish area and a couple of guys snuck inside, and then he was trying to make up 10, 15 meters the rest of the way.,
Live pictures from the FIS Ski Cross Country World Cup Sprint trail in Duesseldor, Germany!,
U.S. Ski Team sprinters Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) and Torin Koos (Leavenworth, WA) will be on the start line when the 2008 FIS Cross Country World Cup season opens in front of over 100,000 spectators in Dusseldorf. The series begins today on a 1.5K ,
A review of the winners from the 2007 FIS World Cup. Will any of them win this year?,
Held annually, the USADA Symposium on Anti-Doping Science is designed to enable the medical and science communities to gather and discuss the science behind doping with the potential for developing a uniform testing scheme.,
For the second year in a row, the national championships for cross country skiing will take place in Houghton, Michigan. The U.S. Cross Country Championship will be held at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center, January 1-6, 2008.,
The Midwest Junior Executive Committee is looking for 5 additional coaches to staff the Midwest Junior National Championships Team in Anchorage, Alaska.,