Articles from February 2011
Feb 15, 2011
- The National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation has partnered with the US Ski Team to fully fund all U. S. Cross Country athletes who represent the U.S. at the 2011 World Nordic Ski Championships.
Feb 15, 2011
- By Inge Scheve - Those who have been around North American racing for a while will recall Glenn Bond, who raced full-time with the Canadian team from 1992 to 2002. Well, Bond is back. This se...
Feb 14, 2011
- By Matthew Voisin - With temperatures in the morning around freezing, and then quickly rising, the conditions were soft and slow for this year’s Mora Vasaloppet. Matt Liebsch powered through, ...
Feb 14, 2011
- By Topher Sabot - The three day Beitostlen FIS race series n Norway concluded with a frigid race, featuring delayed start times and shortened distances. But this did not stop American skiers f...
Feb 14, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - FasterSkier takes a look at the mechanics of how the broadcast of the northern Maine World Cup races makes its way from trails to television. Nineteen miles of cable, $12 mil...
Feb 14, 2011 - By Tom Myrick
- It was a double delight for hosts Northern Michigan at the CCSA Championships in Ishpeming, Mich. as the Wildcats secured both the men’s and women’s team titles on Sun...
Feb 14, 2011
- The 2011 Equinox Ski Challenge will be held March 19-20 at the Rendezvous cross-country ski trails in West Yellowstone. Racers complete as many laps as they can and may ent...
Feb 14, 2011
- “I have to see how my motivation is,” Kristin Størmer Steira (NOR) said to Norwegian news agency NTB.
Feb 13, 2011
- Sylvan Ellefson and Maria Graefnings skied to victory in the 2011 Owl Creek Chase, an event that doubled as a SuperTour and RMISA collegiate race.
Feb 13, 2011
- With four inches of new snow falling into the evening Friday the grooming crew headed out on trail around mid-night to groom until 6:00am. While strong winds made conditions ...
Feb 13, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - When Germany's Magdalena Neuner puts together a good performance on the range, she’s tough to beat. She did just that in Sunday’s 12.5 k mass start in Fort Kent, to capt...
Feb 13, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - Lowell Bailey capitalized on a last-minute spot in the mass start World Cup in Fort Kent, skiing and shooting to a career-best ninth place. Martin Fourcade (FRA) won the race.
Feb 13, 2011
- By Jesse Winter - The Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Marathon went off without a hitch today just outside Edmonton, Alberta. Racers young and old took on the course at Cooking Lake Blackfoot Ski...
Feb 12, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - After watching a pair of World Cup biathlon races on Saturday morning, former NBA great Scottie Pippen ambled out to point number 27 on the shooting range in Fort Kent, ME, t...
Feb 12, 2011
- By Inge Scheve - Joanne Reid (CU) wins the USSA SuperTour 5K classic in Aspen, Colo., while local favorite Sylvan Ellefsson (Vail, Colo.) takes the men’s 10K classic.
Feb 12, 2011
- By Aubrey Smith - UVM's Caitlin Patterson and Dartmouth's Sam Tarling and Eric Packer duplicate podium finishes while Dartmouth posts the top team scores of the day and weekend.
Feb 12, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - Germany’s Andrea Henkel skied to her second straight World Cup win on Saturday in Fort Kent, besting her teammate Magdalena Neuner by 25 seconds in the 10 k pursuit.
Feb 12, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - Five minutes after he lunged with Frenchman Martin Fourcade, Norwegian Emil Hegle Svendsen finally learned that he was the first across the line, collecting his second win in...
Feb 12, 2011
- By Nathaniel Herz - Lowell Bailey was moving up through the men's pursuit field on Saturday in Fort Kent when he realized he'd forgotten two of his clips. It took 30 seconds before he could get ...
Feb 12, 2011
- Sadie Bjornsen continued a strong European swing, placing 8th in a deep Norwegian FIS race in Beitostolen, Norway. Sprinter Chandra Crawford led Canada in 18th, while America...
