- Addie Byrne of Bovey, MN placed sixth in the Youth Women 6 km Sprint competition today. Teammate Grace Boutot of Fort Kent, ME finished in 9th place. Both women had one penalty in the ten shot race.

 - On Sunday, February 8, 2009, Great Glen Trails will host the Great Glen Nordic 300, a five-hour Nordic ski race. Competitors race solo or in teams with the goal of completing...

 - Andy Newell (USA) turned in his best result of the season, finishing 5th in the freestyle sprint in Rybinsk. Torin Koos was 17th in the event won by Renato Pasini (ITA).

 - Finland's Pirjo Murnanen won the women's freestyle sprint in Russia. American Kikkan Randall, at the site of her historic World Cup victory last season, finished 16th.

 - Marianna Longa (ITA) and Tobias Angerer (GER) won the first ever 10/15km World Cup mass start. The races remained tightly packed throughout.

 - Grace Boutot won the Silver medal in the Youth Women 10K Individual competition today.  Boutot finished 1:03.9 behind Yan Zhang of China. Both Boutot and Zhang had one penal...

 - By Michael Sinnott  - The first half of the season has come and gone.  It was cold, warm, snowy, and dry, but it’s gone, and it’s not coming back.  Now, we look forwar...

 - As Zach Caldwell wrote on Kris Freeman's blog, Freeman will race the Craftsbury Marathon this weekend, fly to Europe for the World Cup races in Italy, race the World Champion...

 - By Matias Saari - The Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks will get a chance to do something Mother Nature prevented in Anchorage earlier this month — stage a series of four nation...

 - Kristina Trygstad Saari (Saab Salomon Factory Team) and Leif Zimmerman (USST) won a small but competitive sprint in Cable, WI.

 - North America placed a total of four skiers in the top 10 at the opening U23 Championship race in France.

 - The pre-Olympic World Cup races at the Whistler Olympic Park generate controversy regarding the new competition courses. 2 Comments

 - It was a sad day for cross country skiing in Canada a little more then a year ago when Heinz while coaching his skiers at the Canada Cup races at Duntrooon Ski Resort in Coll...

 - Racing begins this week at the U23/Junior World Championships in Praz de Lys, France.

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 - After years of a remarkable level of wardrobe schizophrenia, the US Ski Team has ushered in a new era of racing suit consistency that should make it easier to follow our favo...

 - Don't miss an opportunity to go mix it up with the 'big guns' - join the Burke Mountain Academy team as they travel to Sweden and Finaland this Spring.

 - Canada has named 12 athletes to compete in the upcoming World Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic.

 - This past weekend 260 young skiers enjoyed the fourth Annual Tippmann Paintball Biathlon thanks to the staff and volunteers of the Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, Vermont.

 - The Red Group consists of the top 30 distance and sprint racers in the world. It is based on World Cup points from the previous four World Cup periods. 2 Comments