- Here are some reactions from the Stockholm World Cup Races for your reflecting pleasure. The World Cup Final is a series of four races that is scored like the Tour De Ski, including a sprint in Stockholm and three more races in Falun. The next stage of the World Cup final will be in Falun on Friday with the King and Queen of Mörderbacken. In order to get points from the World Cup Final, all athletes must complete every race in the four days of the series.

 - Axel Teichmann (GER) won the men's 3.3 km freestyle prologue in the second day of racing at the World Cup Finals.  Teichmann edged Dario Cologna (SUI) by .2 seconds.  Marti...

 - Claudia Nystad (GER) won the World Cup final 2.5km freestyle prologue, edging Charlotte Kalla (SWE) by 2.7 seconds.  Overall World Cup leader Petra Majdic was 5th, and her c...

 - Three races are left in the World Cup Final - who do you think will take hoome the extra 200 World Cup points for claiming the overall victory?

 - Tim Burke finished ninth in today’s 10K Sprint at the inaugural Biathlon World Cup here, while Teammate Lowell Bailey finished 20th.

 - The World Cup Final and Nordic Cup continues tomorrow in Sweden with a 2.5/3,3 km freestyle prologue.  Both the Americans and Canadians have their full World Cup teams compe...

 - In 6 days the Wedgewood Resort US Cross Country Ski Championships/Tour of the Golden Heart will kick off on the Jim Whisenhant Ski Trails at Birch Hill Recreation Area in Fai...

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 - Phil Bowen has been photographing the recent World Cup races in Scandinavia.  He caught up with US sprint star Andy Newell.  Newell talks bout what it takes to be a wrold c... 2 Comments

 - The Norwegian men swept the podium in the first event of the World Cup Final. Johan Kjoelstad led the way, skiing away from teammates John Kristian Dahl and Eldar Roenning on...

 - Petra Majdic (SLO) continued her winning ways, overcoming a crash in the quarterfinals to win the last World Cup sprint of the season.  Aino Kaisa Saarinen (FIN), who is att... 1 Comment

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 - Rebecca Dussault and Gord Jewett won the 30/50km freestyle races at Canadian Nationals.

 - The end of the 2008/2009 World Cup season draws near as the World Cup Final and Nordic Cup gets underway in downtown Stockholm this afternoon.  The overall WC standings are ... 1 Comment

 - FasterSkier will provide live, real-time coverage of today's Stockholm Sprint.

 - UPDATED WITH RESULTS AND CORRECT DATES - What do you do with your hard earned fitness now that the big races are over? Have you ever wondered how far you could ski? 1 Comment

 - The Trondheim World Cup races on Saturday were not your run-of-the-mill mass start events.  Instead of hours of tedious pack skiing, both the men's and women's races feature... 5 Comments

 - Thousands of skiers competed in the Euroloppet series, including the Marathon de Bessans, the Dolomitenlauf in Lienz, Austria, the Marcialonga in the Val di Fiemme, Italy, th...

 - A successful day on snow for the New England team who took home six medals, three of which were gold, during the classic relay races securing the Alaska Cup at the 2009 Junio...